Jack McCall
Jack McCall (* 1852 in Jefferson County , Kentucky ; † March 1, 1877 in Yankton , Dakota Territory ) is the murderer of western legend James "Wild Bill" Hickok .
biography
Jack McCall grew up with three sisters in Kentucky and worked as a buffalo hunter in his youth. In the summer of 1876 he lived in the improvised gold digging settlement of Deadwood . There he passed himself off as Bill Sutherland for a while.
On August 2, 1876, McCall shot dead in Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood with a 45 caliber revolver behind the western hero Bill Hickok while he was playing poker . It later emerged that McCall had lost all of his money to Hickok playing poker in the days before.
McCall was arrested. Since Deadwood was not an established place, the residents convened an ad hoc court and selected a jury the following day. At the trial, McCall testified that his motive was revenge because Hickok killed his brother in Abilene, Kansas . The jury found this statement to be sufficient justification and acquitted McCall after two hours of deliberation.
After McCall left Deadwood, he was arrested on August 29 in Laramie by a US marshal . Although the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution on the principle of double jeopardy prohibits re-indictment after an acquittal, a new trial was opened against McCall. The reason was that Deadwood and the whole gold rush in the Black Hills were illegal intrusion by whites into the hunting area assigned to the Sioux Indians. The Deadwood court and trial were not recognized by the official judiciary and did not stand in the way of a new trial.
The trial opened in federal court in Yankton in December 1876 , and McCall was found guilty by the jury. In January 1877 the death penalty was imposed as a sentence . He was publicly hanged on March 1, 1877 at 10:15 a.m. in Yankton, Dakota Territory . After his death, it was found that he had never had a brother.
Others
In the television series Deadwood of Home Box Office Jack McCall is from the American actor Garret Dillahunt embodies.
In the film Wild Bill (1995) he was played by the actor David Arquette .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mark Thorburn: John "Jack" McCall Trials: 1876 - The First Trial
- ↑ Mark Thorburn: John "Jack" McCall Trials: 1876 - A Federal Trial For Mccall
- ↑ HBO: Garret Dillahunt as Jack McCall
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | McCall, Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sutherland, Bill (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American murderer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1850 and 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jefferson County , Kentucky |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1877 |
| Place of death | Deadwood , South Dakota , USA |