During the trial and while on death row on Carbon County jail, he vehemently proclaimed his innocence.
On hanging day, before he was taken away from his cell, he rubbed his hand of the dirty floor of the cell, placed it on the wall and proclaimed "this is the hand of an innocent man!".
Innocent or not, he was hanged that morning.
To accommodate the next quest, the cell was cleaned and the hand print wa scrubbed off the wall. Strangely, however, it reappeared.
Over the past hundred-plus years the handprint has remained on the cell wall despite repeated washing, re painting, an even been plastered over. No matter what the handprint reappears in a day or two.
The Carbon County jailhouse is now the old jail museum and offers public tours. You can actually see the ghostly hand print in cell 17, testifying to an innocence proclaimed over a century ago.
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