First Electrocution of Woman Fifty Years Ago
Cynthia Lowry recounts the first woman to face the electric chair at Sing Sing in 1898 Martha Place, a Brooklyn housekeeper, was executed in 1899 for first degree murder. The article traces later female executions including Ruth Snyder and Eva Coe, noting motives, trials, and the shift in public and legal responses over time.
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Cynthia Lowry
Issining
N. Y
Sing Sing
Albany
Martha Place
William W Place
Ida
Place
Hancock Street
Brooklyn
Martha
Mrs Place
First Women in Electric Chair History Outline
The passage notes that Knight was executed the same night as an old man named William Fowler who was killed for $15. It states 15 women have been in New York's death house with six executions of women, and nine other cases commuted or reversed. It recalls New York adopting the electric chair in 1888, first used in 1890 at Auburn for William Kemmiler, alias John Hart.
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Martha Place
Brooklyn
Anna Antonio
Albany
Vincent Saetta
Salvatore Antonio
Antonio
Saetta
Eva Coe
New York
Auburn Prison
William Kemmiler
John Hart
Taxibus strike causes free rides in Danville
Taxi drivers on strike in Danville loaded groceries into private cars bearing placards A free ride home and gave away rides to customers. The charitable drivers used their own cars to take business away from the company, creating a disruptive protest.
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Danville
Pasteur Rabies Debate and Public Fear
Dr Wm Brady challenges Pasteur rabies treatment in a reflective critique. He argues public reports exaggerate outbreaks, cites a metropolitans health official demonstration with a rabies infected rabbit, and questions certainty of rabies in humans while acknowledging animal cases.
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Pasteur
Man
Yahbut
Blue Baby Case In Baltimore Hospital
Doctors at a Baltimore hospital will treat a 22 year old patient named William P. Stewart described as a blue baby due to a heart condition preventing adequate oxygen, deemed operable by hospital attendants.
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Baltimo
William P. Stewart
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Theodore Roosevelt
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New York State
Ruth Snyder
Judd Gray
Mrs. Place
Helen Fowler
George
Wm. Brady
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Security Laboratories
Paramount Pharmacy
Security
Paramount
LAN
OSS
Hudson
America
Wathan Motor CO
Third Street
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Hudbon
Bette
KEN Ood Fuel Company
DIAL
Dandruff
L. A. Kuehnel
Minneapolis
Cedar Rapids
Montrose Hotel
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Popelar
Grenadiers
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