Execution by automatic gallows marks new Connecticut era
John Cronin killed Albert Skinner at South Windsor on Oct 6, 1898. The first state hanging under a 19th century reform law used Woodbridge’s automatic gallows at Wethersfield, with Cronin’s execution witnessed by a large group including officials, physicians, and reporters.
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Perkins
Woodbridge
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Cronin
E. G. Fox
A. Sill
Prisot
Hartford County
Cromp
Connecticut
Wethersfield
Jabez L. Moodbridge
Werden C Chamberlain
Colorado
James H. Rabbett
Stamford
Conn
Professor Kaschoska Missing in New York News
New York reports pianist and chorus master Professor Kaschoska, engaged for a German opera at the Electropatian Opera House in February, has been missing for two weeks. Friends fear a breakdown and possible suicide due to his intense fixation on Mme Nordica. he had lived with the Limpert family at 853 West Thirty Fifth Street and sent 16 telegrams to Nordica in 12 hours after her abroad return.
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Dunraven Vexed Says He Will Not Build Valkyrie for Cup
Distressed by cable from James D. Smith, ex-Commander, the America's Cup committee appears to accept no condition that the Royal Yacht Squadron must yield the cup. Lord Dunraven vows Valkyrie will not be built and doubts the committee’s plan to race within ten months. He declines to sail in November and questions January 15 as a deadline.
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