In April 1839, Abraham Lincoln defended William Fraim, a drunken Irish deckhand who had killed a shipmate after a quarrel aboard a steamboat docked at Frederick on the Illinois River in Schuyler County. After the shipmate blew cigar smoke in his face, Fraim tried to knock the cigar from his mouth and, when resisted, drew a long butcher knife and stabbed the man in the chest. Outrage over the killing led Fraim to move the case to Hancock County, where Lincoln represented him in a one-day trial in the new second Hancock County Courthouse. The jury found Fraim guilty, and Lincoln failed in his attempt to have the judgment set aside. Three weeks later, Fraim was hanged, the only one of Lincoln's clients to lose his life at the hangman's noose. Judge James H. Ralston presided, and juror Daniel H. Wells, an early Hancock County settler, later became a counselor to Brigham Young in the presidency of the Mormon Church. The trial was among the first held in the new courthouse, which was later demolished for the current courthouse completed in 1908. Because Illinois juries usually acquitted defendants in murder trials in Lincoln's day, the conviction was especially notable, and the public hanging became a memorable local event attended enthusiastically by many residents of Carthage.