Tag: Court of Criminal Appeal

• Doctor George Henry Lamson, the ‘Sleight of Hand Poisoner’; Not as clever as he thought.

  

  All in all, a sorry fate for a man who'[d once shown such promise.

  CrimeScribe

  April 28, 2018

  True Crime

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• George Kelly, falsely convicted and quickly hanged.

  For most crime buffs the name ‘George Kelly’ inspires memories of rattling Tommy guns, bank robberies and the kidnapping of Charles Urschel, all attributed to American crook George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly. Kelly, a second-rate gangster at best, was made out to be far worse than he actually was, spending the remainder of his life in…

  CrimeScribe

  March 28, 2018

  Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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