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• On This Day in 1893 – Morphine murderer Carlyle Harris, his last mile and his last laugh.

  

  When Buchanan entered the condemned cells at Sing Sing he was probably a little embarrassed to finally meet the ‘stupid amateur’ and ‘bungling fool’ he’d so disastrously mocked. Buchanan had had the first laugh. Harris laughed last and longest, but had little time left to do it.

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  May 8, 2021

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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• On This Day in 1890; William Kemmler – The World’s First Legal Electrocution.

  

  August 6, 1890 saw the dawn of a new age for criminal history. At Auburn Prison in upstate New York there was the execution.of one William Kemmler, condemned for murdering girlfriend Matilda Ziegler with a hatchet. There was nothing remarkable about Kemmler (an alcoholic vegetable hawker with a vicious temper) or about his crime. There…

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  August 6, 2018

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