Murder Mayhem In St Lawrence County

Author : Cheri L. Farnsworth
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614233169

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Murder & Mayhem in St. Lawrence County by Cheri L. Farnsworth Pdf

“Contains twelve intriguing stories, true murder cases from New York’s North Country . . . Illuminates the dark side of northern New York’s early days (Murder By Gaslight). St. Lawrence County is known for its picturesque waters and pristine seasons. But underneath this fair facade lies a sordid past, rife with tales of killings and cunning, like the man who slashed his wife to death after instructing a constable to close the door and depart; a robbery that descended into the brutal axing of a mother and her two small children; the unsolved case of a young woman bludgeoned to death on school grounds in an upscale neighborhood; and the gruesome poisoning of one man at the hands of his son, his wife and her lover. Join author Cheri Farnsworth as she investigates these and other notorious cases of murder and mayhem in New York’s North Country. Includes photos!

Author : Cheri L. Farnsworth
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614234333

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Murder & Mayhem in Jefferson County by Cheri L. Farnsworth Pdf

The author of Wicked Northern New York delivers the most chilling historic true crime stories from the state’s northern tier. Jefferson County, located in New York’s beautiful North Country, has a dark and violent past. During the long winter months, it was not the cold that was feared, but the killers. In 1828, Henry Evans committed a crime so brutal that the location in Brownsville is still called Slaughter Hill. A real-life Little Red Riding Hood, eleven-year-old Sarah Conklin met someone far worse than a wolf on her way home from school in 1875. And in 1908, Mary Farmer, a beautiful young mother hacked her neighbor to death and was sent to the electric chair. Author Cheri L. Farnsworth has compiled the stories of the most notorious criminal minds of Jefferson County’s early history. Includes photos!

Author : Cheri Farnsworth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781493046317

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Haunted Connecticut by Cheri Farnsworth Pdf

Eerie occurrences, spooky events, unsolved mysteries, and terrifying specters haunt Connecticut. Tales of Blood-thirsty dolls, haunted lighthouses and a phantom plane crash tingle the spine of travelers to Haunted Connecticut. Connecticut is known for haunted islands; phantom ships, trains, and planes; sightings of UFOs, aliens, and real men in black (MIB); and encounters with Bigfoot and evil black dogs.There have been plenty of strange atmospheric anomalies, such as Connecticut’s Dark Day; solid clouds that came crashing down from the sky in the Litchfield Hills in 1758; the Moodus Noises, which have yet to be fully understood; and Notch Hollow near Bolton, where car windows fog over for no apparent reason while passing an abandoned railroad track. Indeed, the stories in this book, covering the whole spectrum of the supernatural, are fun to read in a satisfyingly spooky kind of way.

Author : Edited by Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467144391

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Murder & Mayhem in Herkimer County by Edited by Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins Pdf

Herkimer County is steeped in history, from the settlement of the Mohawk Valley by Palatine German settlers to the flood of western migration with the opening of the Erie Canal. But the region also boasts an infamous history of high-profile homicides and crimes. Roxalana Druse murdered her abusive husband and became the last woman to be hanged in New York in 1887. The death of Grace Brown on scenic Big Moose Lake became one of the most famous cases in the country in 1906, inspiring author Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. Psychological tests of intelligence were admitted into court for the first time in an acquittal of sixteen-year-old Jean Gianini in 1914. Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins collect these historic narratives of murder and mayhem in Herkimer County.

Author : Cheri Farnsworth
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780811742139

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Alphabet Killer by Cheri Farnsworth Pdf

In the early 1970s, three young girls were slain near Rochester, NY, in the so-called Alphabet murders. The first book fully devoted to the case explores the crime and its investigation.

Author : A. J. Schenkman,Elizabeth Werlau
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1540221768

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Murder & Mayhem in Ulster County by A. J. Schenkman,Elizabeth Werlau Pdf

"Murders and other crimes in Ulster County, NY"--

Author : Keven McQueen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781614233640

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Louisville Murder & Mayhem by Keven McQueen Pdf

“Lovers of true crime will be thrilled to find a book devoted to Louisville’s more iniquitous side . . . and McQueen captures it all with obvious glee” (The Courier-Journal). Life in Louisville in the years following the Civil War, and through the turn of the century, was as exciting as it was dangerous. The city continued to grow as important urban hub of culture and commerce, connecting the South with the Midwest and Northern states. As Keven McQueen proves in this collection of morbid tales of crime and depravity, life in Louisville certainly had a darker side. Journey back to a time when Louisville’s streets were filled with rail cars, its alleys populated by thieves, and its brothels hummed with activity. Whether it’s the tale of the marriage of a convicted murderer to a notorious prostitute, or the exploits the criminal duo dubbed Louisville’s Bonnie and Clyde, this is a true crime collection that is truly hard to believe. Includes photos!

Author : Jean Boling,Josephine County Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Josephine County (Or.)
ISBN : OCLC:642084097

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Murder, Mayhem, and Mischief in Josephine County by Jean Boling,Josephine County Historical Society Pdf

Author : Cheri L. Farnsworth
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439669020

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Historic North Country Disasters by Cheri L. Farnsworth Pdf

There is a tragic history in New York's North Country of human folly, natural disasters, deadly explosions, terrible train wrecks and other calamities. The famous Barnum & Bailey Circus suffered deeply after its train crashed between Norwood and Potsdam in 1889 and many animals died. Beloved Thousand Island Park was almost entirely destroyed by a devastating fire in 1912, leveling hotels and businesses, and the once-thriving park never fully recovered. The great Massena earthquake measured 5.9 on the Richter scale in 1944 and caused tremendous structural damage, including destroying nearly all chimneys in the area. Author Cheri L. Farnsworth compiles both the man-made and natural disasters that shocked the North Country in the hundred years between 1850 and 1950.

Author : Cheri L. Farnsworth
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467145008

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Historic North Country Disasters by Cheri L. Farnsworth Pdf

There is a tragic history in New York's North Country of human folly, natural disasters, deadly explosions, terrible train wrecks and other calamities. The famous Barnum & Bailey Circus suffered deeply after its train crashed between Norwood and Potsdam in 1889 and many animals died. Beloved Thousand Island Park was almost entirely destroyed by a devastating fire in 1912, leveling hotels and businesses, and the once-thriving park never fully recovered. The great Massena earthquake measured 5.9 on the Richter scale in 1944 and caused tremendous structural damage, including destroying nearly all chimneys in the area. Author Cheri L. Farnsworth compiles both the man-made and natural disasters that shocked the North Country in the hundred years between 1850 and 1950.

Author : Cheri L Farnsworth
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625841193

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Wicked Northern New York by Cheri L Farnsworth Pdf

The friendly, relaxed atmosphere of the North Country belies a dark and sordid history: a time when it seemed that every city had its red-light district and every hamlet its brothel. Revisit an enigmatic period fraught with pistol duels and "tramp camps;" hermits on the run, "wild man" sightings and horse thieves. Local author Cheri Farnsworth has carefully researched and compiled the region's most wicked stories here, like the Potsdam man who literally scared his wife to death, the woman who was won in a game of cards, and the little girl who was taken by gypsies, sold for fifty cents, and then traded for a half a dozen chickens.

Author : Doug Lyle
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0312309465

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Murder and Mayhem by Doug Lyle Pdf

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476664477

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Crime, Justice and Retribution in the American West, 1850-1900 by Jeremy Agnew Pdf

Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before riding off into the sunset. In reality it would not have happened that way. Real lawmen did not simply walk away from a gunfight--they had to face the legal system and justify shooting a civilian in the line of duty. Providing a more realistic view of criminal justice in the Old West, this history focuses on how criminals came into conflict with the law and how the law responded. The process is described in detail, from the common crimes of the day--such as train robbery and cattle theft--to the methods of apprehending criminals to their adjudication and punishment by incarceration, flogging or hanging.

Author : Ernest Thompson Seton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780806152325

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Wahb by Ernest Thompson Seton Pdf

First published more than a century ago, The Biography of a Grizzly recounts the life of a fictitious bear named Wahb who lived and died in the Greater Yellowstone region. This new edition combines Ernest Thompson Seton’s classic tale and original illustrations with historical and scientific context for Wahb’s story, providing a thorough understanding of the setting, cultural connections, biology, and ecology of Seton’s best-known book. By the time The Biography of a Grizzly was published in 1900, grizzly bears had been hunted out of much of their historical range in North America. The characterization of Wahb, along with Seton’s other anthropomorphic tales of American wildlife, helped to change public perceptions and promote conservation. As editors Jeremy M. Johnston and Charles R. Preston remind us, however, Seton’s approach to writing about animals put him at the center of the “Nature-Faker” controversy of the early twentieth century, when John Burroughs and Theodore Roosevelt, among others, denounced sentimental representations of wildlife. The editors address conservation scientists’ continuing concerns about inaccurate depictions of nature in popular culture. Despite its anthropomorphism, Seton’s paradoxical book imparts a good deal of insightful and accurate natural history, even as its exaggerations shaped early-twentieth-century public opinion on conservation in often counterproductive ways. By complicating Seton’s enthralling tale with scientific observations of grizzly behavior in the wild, Johnston and Preston evaluate the story’s accuracy and bring the story of Yellowstone grizzlies into the present day. Preserving the 1900 edition’s original design and illustrations, Wahb brings new understanding to an American classic, updating the book for current and future generations.

Author : Russsell M. Magnaghi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781387016815

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Upper Peninsula of Michigan: A History by Russsell M. Magnaghi Pdf

"Get ready to discover the rich history of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. From its earliest days, it has evoked words of love, beauty, mystery, and legend. Drawing on oral histories, newspapers, census data, archives, and libraries, Russell M. Magnaghi has written the seminal history of a very 'special place' as seen through the eyes of the men and women who have lived here- the famous and not so famous. For the first time in over a century, a complete history of the U. P.- from prehistoric origins to the present- is available. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan: A History is an extraordinary book celebrating this unique sense of place."--Back cover.