The news-breaking article below was published in Cleveland, Tennessee's The Weekly Herald on April 19, 1877, and stated the result of Jack Hunt's trial in Athens, McMinn County Courthouse after he was granted a change of venue.
The second article below was published in The Morristown Gazette on October 24, 1877. It described Jack Hunt's Tennessee Supreme Court trial and subsequent incarceration after sentenced to death by hanging for brutally murdering his wife, seventeen-year-old Mrs. Margaret Ann (Davis) Hunt and their unborn baby in Tellico Plains, Monroe County, TN.
The third article below was published in The Clarksville Weekly Herald on November 24, 1877, and described Jack Hunt's reaction to his death warrant for execution on the scaffold.
The fourth article below was published in The Knoxville Whig and Chronicle on October 6, 1877, and described family efforts to assist in procuring a lesser sentence for Jack Hunt.
The fifth article below, published October 24, 1877, in The Weekly Herald, Cleveland, TN, reported Governor Porter's stay of execution until December 18, 1877, per legal request.
"THOU SHALT NOT STEAL." DEUTERONOMY 5 : 19
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