Tag: Gordon Fawcett Hamby
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On This Day in 1920 – Gordon Hamby’s Last Goodbye and Nellie Bly’s First Execution.
Bandit and burglar Gordon Fawcett Hamby was a strange bird by any standards. His death was a rarity at Sing Sing, the first time a female reporter had witnessed an execution there since 1899. That reporter had been Kate Starr working for one of the Hearst newspapers. Since then female reporters had never been allowed…
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