Tag: 1935

• On This Day in 1936 – George ‘Diamond King’ Barrett, first to die for murdering a Federal agent.

  

  Barrett is certainly a criminal curiosity. His life was one of crime and allegedly several murders. The murder for which he finally died gave him an unwilling place in the chronicles of American crime, though he was hardly appreciated becoming one of history’s footnotes. So why did he hang in a state which had long…

  CrimeScribe

  March 24, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime

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• Dwight Beard, a tale of two cities and (at least) two murders.

  

  Unlike in Dickens’ classic novel Dwight Beard did not go to the guillotine as an act of redemption. The nobility so prized by Dickens (himself opposed to capital punishment) simply wasn’t in Beard’s nature. On 4 June 1937 he sat in the ‘Texas Thunderbolt’ at Huntsville, riding the lightning for a murder during one of…

  CrimeScribe

  July 23, 2020

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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