Jereboam Orville Beauchamp (September 6, 1802 – July 7, 1826) was an American lawyer who assassinated Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp, an event known as the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy. In 1821, Sharp was accused of fathering the illegitimate stillborn child of a woman named Anna Cooke. Sharp denied paternity of the child, and public opinion favored him. In 1824, Beauchamp married Cooke.
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- Jereboam Orville Beauchamp (September 6, 1802 – July 7, 1826) was an American lawyer who assassinated Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp, an event known as the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy. In 1821, Sharp was accused of fathering the illegitimate stillborn child of a woman named Anna Cooke. Sharp denied paternity of the child, and public opinion favored him. In 1824, Beauchamp married Cooke. During Sharp's 1825 campaign for a seat in the Kentucky House of Representatives, the issue of Cooke's child was again raised, and handbills printed by Sharp's political opponents claimed he denied paternity based on the fact that the child was a mulatto, the child of a Cooke family slave. Whether Sharp actually made this claim has never been determined with certainty, but Beauchamp believed he had and swore to avenge his wife's honor. In the early morning of November 7, 1825, Beauchamp tricked Sharp into answering the door at Sharp's home in Frankfort and fatally stabbed him. Beauchamp was convicted of the murder and sentenced to hang. The morning of Beauchamp's execution, he and his wife attempted a double suicide by stabbing themselves with a knife she had smuggled into his cell. She was successful; he was not. Beauchamp was rushed to the gallows before he could bleed to death. He was hanged on July 7, 1826, and died after a brief struggle. The bodies of Jereboam and Anna Beauchamp were positioned in an embrace and buried in a single coffin, according to their wishes. The Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy inspired fictional works such as Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished Politian and Robert Penn Warren's World Enough and Time.
- 傑里波安·O·博尚﹙Jereboam Orville Beauchamp，1802年9月6日─1826年7月7日﹚身為美國律師，暗殺肯塔基立法議員所羅門·P·夏普﹙ Solomon Porcius Sharp ﹚，是為博尚─夏普慘案。1921年，夏普疑和女子柯克 ﹙Anna Cooke﹚ 懷有非婚生子女。夏普否認與流產的子女的父子關係，而輿論支持夏普。1824年，博尚與柯克結婚。
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- Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp, pp. 39–41
- I put on my mask, drew my dagger and proceeded to the door; I knocked three times loud and quick, Colonel Sharp said; "Who's there" - "Covington I replied," quickly Sharp's foot was heard upon the floor. I saw under the door as he approached without a light. I drew my mask over my face and immediately Colonel Sharp opened the door. I advanced into the room and with my left hand I grasped his right wrist. The violence of the grasp made him spring back and trying to disengage his wrist, he said, "What Covington is this." I replied John A. Covington. "I don't know you," said Colonel Sharp, I know John W. Covington." Mrs. Sharp appeared at the partition door and then disappeared, seeing her disappear I said in a persuasive tone of voice, "Come to the light Colonel and you will know me," and pulling him by the arm he came readily to the door and still holding his wrist with my left hand I stripped my hat and handkerchief from over my forehead and looked into Sharp's face. He knew me the more readily I imagine, by my long, bush, curly suit of hair. He sprang back and exclaimed in a tone of horror and despair, "Great God it is him," and as he said that he fell on his knees. I let go of his wrist and grasped him by the throat dashing him against the facing of the door and muttered in his face, "die you villain." As I said that I plunged the dagger to his heart.
- Jereboam Beauchamp
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- Jereboam Orville Beauchamp (September 6, 1802 – July 7, 1826) was an American lawyer who assassinated Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp, an event known as the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy. In 1821, Sharp was accused of fathering the illegitimate stillborn child of a woman named Anna Cooke. Sharp denied paternity of the child, and public opinion favored him. In 1824, Beauchamp married Cooke.
- 傑里波安·O·博尚﹙Jereboam Orville Beauchamp，1802年9月6日─1826年7月7日﹚身為美國律師，暗殺肯塔基立法議員所羅門·P·夏普﹙ Solomon Porcius Sharp ﹚，是為博尚─夏普慘案。1921年，夏普疑和女子柯克 ﹙Anna Cooke﹚ 懷有非婚生子女。夏普否認與流產的子女的父子關係，而輿論支持夏普。1824年，博尚與柯克結婚。
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