Frankie Silver's Reported Confession
From a North Carolina newspaper, Fayetteville Weekly Observer, July 30, 1833, p.3
Execution. --Mrs. Frances Silvers was executed at Morganton on the 12th inst. for the murder of her husband. She made a confession of all the circumstances leading to the commission of the awful deed, from which it appears that the whole period of her matrimonial life, (a little more than 2 years,) was spent in a succession of quarrels and fights, always, as she says, commenced by her worthless partner. She says he was loading his gun with the avowed purpose of shooting her, when she caught up the axe and gave him the fatal blow. A few moments afterwards she would have given, she says, a thousand worlds to have called back the blow.
