Tag: John Gotti

• On This Day in 1926 – Gerald Chapman, America’s first ‘Public Enemy Number One.’

  

  “Death itself isn’t dreadful, but hanging seems an awkward way of ending the adventure…” – Gerald Chapman to his lawyers after being condemned to hang for murder in 1925. ‘Gerald Chapman’ was his favorite alias, but his real name was probably George Chartres. Given that records are sketchy and Chapman was always evasive about his youth,…

  CrimeScribe

  April 6, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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• Trial Watchers – A Strange Breed.

  

  “Prisoner at the Bar, the sentence of this court is that you be taken from this place to a lawful prison and thence to a place of execution where you shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead. And that afterwards your body shall be cut down and buried within the precincts of…

  CrimeScribe

  July 29, 2014

  Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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