All posts tagged "trial"
-
10.6KNew HampshireNew Hampshire’s Jonathan Daniels Martyred in Alabama in 1965
Jonathan Daniels smoked cigarettes. He liked to drive fast. He liked a good argument. And when he saw something wrong, he tried...
-
46.9K10Crime and ScandalSix Places Where A Gallows Once Stood
So many people died on the gallows in New England that you may well have walked over a spot where someone met...
-
5.1K1MassachusettsEpes Sargent Tries to Get America to Believe in Ghosts
In the 1860s and 1870s, many Americans grew obsessed with spiritualism and communicating with the dead. The movement, which began in 1848...
-
6.4K1ConnecticutPhilo Bennett, Connecticut Tinsmith, Makes a Will and Destroys a Political Career
New Haven’s Philo Bennett probably thought he was doing William Jennings Bryan a good turn when he left him $50,000 in his...
-
22.3KConnecticutLydia Sherman, the Derby Poisoner, Commits the Horror of the Century
Lydia Sherman had an unfortunate addiction to murder. She went on a decades-long killing spree in New York and Connecticut, poisoning at...
-
12.1K20MassachusettsLewis Tappan, the Man Who Hired Abe Lincoln to Spy on Sinners
Lewis Tappan hated slavery as much as he hated people who didn’t pay their debts. In 1841, he found he could do...
To Top
