Baltimore Patriot and Mercantile Advertiser (July 21, 1826), p. 2:

            EXECUTION OF BEAUCHAMP -THE TRAGEDY WOUND UP

We learn from the Frankfort (Ky.) Commentator, that Beauchamp, the assassin of Col. Sharp, was executed according to his sentence on Friday, 7th inst. An idea had gone abroad, that he would address the people, at the gallows; but he made no attempt of the kind; he was evidently, too feeble, probably rendered so by his attempts to commit suicide, by taking laudanum and by stabbing himself. Soon after arriving at the place of execution, he observed that he wished to die; and requested the Music which belonged to two independent companies, which had been called out to preserve order, should play "Bonaparte's Retreat from Moscow;" which having heard, he desired the officers to perform the execution,--and took his death.

The tragedy of the murder of Col. Clark only required a little more variety of plot, scenery, and persons, to make it completely Shakespearean.
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