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...bells sounded the appointed hour of 11 o'clock on June 28, and the snare drums rolled darkly for Sergeant Thomas Hickey. All the buttons had been slashed from his uniform coat, and the red epaulet from his right shoulder. The 80 soldiers in the ceremonial guard stood at attention, bayonets fixed. A crowd of thousands had gathered in a field just off New York's Bowery Lane to watch Sergeant Hickey die on the gallows. The condemned man was "unaffected and obstinate to the last," Artillary Surgeon William Eustis reported later, "except that when the chaplain took...
...Hickey soon recovered and mounted the gallows. A hangman yanked the platform out from under him. Then the body remained hanging in mid-air as the crowd gradually dispersed...
...Hickey was no ordinary criminal. He had been a member of General Washington's personal guard. He had been tried and convicted just two days earlier on a charge of "exciting and joining in a mutiny and sedition." Washington himself approved the sentence...
...Hickey and another soldier, Micah Lynch, were seized June 14 on a charge of trying to pass counterfeit money. In jail, they were heard boasting that they had secretly enlisted with the British and that hundreds of other Continental soldiers had done the same...
Between Time and Timbuktu, at Off The Wall, should attract Kurt Vonnegut fans. The film was written by Vonnegut, incorporating much of his fiction, and made by WBGH. It features Bob and Ray, Bill Hickey and Kevin McCarthy. Vonnegut is slick, commercial and unfunny but there's no accounting for taste. Off The Wall is at 861 Main Street in Cambridge...