All posts tagged "hanging"
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10.4K3Crime and ScandalSeveral Dreadful Stroaks – The Demons of Jeremiah Meacham
On the night of March 22, 1715, Jeremiah Meacham was troubled, as usual. He had secluded himself on the second story of...
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21.4K14ConnecticutDivorce, Murder and Madness: The Puritan Tuttles of the New Haven Colony
William and Elizabeth Tuttle sailed to America in 1635 to become one of the founding families of the New Haven Colony. Arriving...
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10.1K1Crime and ScandalThe Somnambulism Defense: The Sleepwalking Murderer of Pembroke, N.H.
Doubtless many people are murdered in their sleep. But it’s not often the would-be murderer is asleep, too, suffering from somnambulism. But...
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12.7KConnecticutThe Confessions of Moses Paul
These are the established facts about why Connecticut executed Moses Paul: On the night of December 7, 1771, Paul visited David Clark’s...
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11.3K8ConnecticutPuritan Justice of the New Haven Colony: Sometimes Nasty and Brutish
Under Puritan justice in 17th century New Haven, rumors of sex with a pig got you hanged, exposing sexual harassment got you...
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8.6K2Crime and ScandalJust One Kind of Murder in the 1850 Parkman-Webster Case
There was only one kind of murder in Massachusetts when the sensational Parkman-Webster case caught the world’s attention in 1850: The kind...
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