Tag: George Westinghouse

• 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…

  CrimeScribe

  August 6, 2018

  History, Odds And Ends, True Crime

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• I wrote a book.

  

    It’s been quite some time since I last posted ere, but I have been extremely busy with paid work and earning a living. Part of that has been writing my first book. Criminal Curiosities is a collection of crooks, all with something about their crime, trial or punishment that is singular to them. The…

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  October 19, 2017

  True Crime

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