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Albert W. Hicks
Albert W. Hicks (c. 1820 – July 13, 1860), also known as William Johnson, John Hicks and 'Pirate Hicks', was a triple murderer, and the last person executed for piracy in the United States (though the execution of the slaver Nathaniel Gordon in 1862 was under the terms of the Piracy Law of 1820).
==Background==
In March 1860, Hicks, a long-time sailor, was drugged and shanghaied onto the oyster sloop ''A.E. Johnson''. Hicks then effected an escape by murdering the skipper Captain George H. Burr and the two other crew members, Smith and Oliver Watts, throwing the bodies overboard. During his escape, he collided with the schooner ''J. R. Mather''.
Hicks then took all the money on board (about $500) and abandoned ship in a yawl, landing on Staten Island. When the wrecked ''A.E. Johnson'' was brought ashore, with the murder victims' blood still very much in evidence, Hicks’s day of reckoning neared. After being pursued by authorities through several states, he was captured in Providence, Rhode Island and found to be in possession of the watch of Captain Burr, several money bags, and a coat of Watts's containing a daguerreotype belonging to Oliver Watts.
Hicks confessed to the three murders, and also claimed to have killed 97 others in California gold camps, as well as having committed a similar piracy in South America. He gave his reason as "''...the devil took possession of me.''"
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