James Brown was a sailor convicted of murder.
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James Brown was the name of a Portuguese sailor who set sail out of Boston with a crew of sailors in 1867. Two of the crew members went missing, the captain of the ship searched the boat and found James Brown sucking blood from one of the dead crew members. He found the second man laying lifeless on the boat with no blood. Brown was convicted of murder and was ordered to be hanged. President Andrew Jackson got involved and gave the man life in prison in Ohio. In 1892 he was transfered to the National Assylum in Washington, D.C.
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