put around his neck. He asked for a drink of water, and the band to play "Bonaparte's Retreat from Moscow". At his signal, the cart moved out from under him, and he died after a brief struggle. His father requested his body. Following Beauchamp's earlier instructions, he had the bodies of Jereboam and Anna arranged in an embrace and buried them in the same coffin. A poem written by Anna was etched on their double tombstone. Senator Beauchamp eventually found a publisher for his nephew's Confession. The first printing ran on August 11, 1826. Sharp's brother, Dr. Leander Sharp, attempted to counter Beauchamp's Confession with Vindication of the Character of the late Col. Solomon P. Sharp, which he wrote in 1827. In this book, Dr. Sharp claimed to have seen a "first version" of the confession in which Beauchamp implicated Darby. Darby threatened to sue Dr. Sharp if he published Vindication, and John Waring threatened to kill him if he did so. Sharp did not release the manuscript and hid it in his house. The completed printed version was found in 1877 during a remodel of Sharp's house. In popular culture Edgar Allan Poe's play, Politian, was based on the events above. Robert Penn Warren's World Enough and Time was also inspired by them. See also Notes Sources variously spell the name as Anna Cooke, Anna Cook, Ann Cooke, and Ann Cook. References Bibliography Further reading , scanned version online, University of Kentucky 1802 births 1826 deaths American people convicted of murder People executed for murder Criminals from Kentucky 19th-century executions by the United States Kentucky lawyers People executed by Kentucky by hanging Executed people from Kentucky People convicted of murder by Kentucky People from Simpson County, Kentucky 19th-century executions of American people 1825 murders in the United States 19th-century American lawyers de:Beauchamp-Sharp-Tragödie