Skull Cowboy - Hangin' Day

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Skull Cowboy's cover of Slim Willet's 1964 Western song about the hanging of Ed Leeper and James Powell in Gatesville, Texas in 1891 - Hangin' Day.

The crime for which Leeper and Powell were hanged happened on 17 December 1889 when 2 gunmen attacked some farmers who had been selling cotton in Gatesville. J.T. Mathis was mortally wounded in the resulting firefight eventually dying on 18 December and another man was injured. Since the attack took place under cover of darkness, nobody could positively identify the assailants. Leeper and Powell were immediately suspected and there was circumstantial evidence to support it.

The men were kept under guard from the time of their arrest soon after the robbery. Leeper’s rich Tennessee mother took their appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court and both men continued to assert their innocence until they were hanged. “I die innocent and I die game for the crime of some one else,” said Powell on the scaffold.

Video edited by Otis Jowitt.