On this day, April 8, in 1899, Martha Place became the first woman to be executed in the electric chair. She was sent to Old Sparky in New York’s Sing Sing prison after she force-fed acid to her ...
In early August 1881, Lemuel W. Smith, 30, got drunk and made the bad decision to grab two metal strips on the generator that powered the lights of Buffalo, N.Y., known at the time as the “Electric ...
The Cincinnati region has been connected to monumental crimes and criminals in years past. In this column, we’ll look at cases with local ties that were huge news when they happened. When the first ...
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