Author: Tippetts
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Languages : en
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Author: William H. Tippetts
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Category : Crime and criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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Author: W. H. Tippetts
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Category : Herkimer County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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Author: W. H. Tippetts
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615219551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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This 1885 book was written as a series of horrifying murders occurred in Herkimer County within the space of a few months. Young W.H. Tippetts, hoping to take advantage of the hysteria surrounding the murder of William Druse by his wife Roxy, quickly put together this description of every murder in the rural New York state county since 1783.

Author: David V. Baker
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786499508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment. This historical analysis examines the social, political and economic contexts in which the justice system has put women to death, revealing a pattern of patriarchal domination and female subordination. The book includes a discussion of condemned women granted executive clemency and judicial commutations, an inquiry into women falsely convicted in potentially capital cases and a profile of the current female death row population.

Author: Edited by Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467144398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Herkimer County is steeped in history, from the settlement of the Mohawk Valley by Palatine German settlers to the flood of western migration with the opening of the Erie Canal. But the region also boasts an infamous history of high-profile homicides and crimes. Roxalana Druse murdered her abusive husband and became the last woman to be hanged in New York in 1887. The death of Grace Brown on scenic Big Moose Lake became one of the most famous cases in the country in 1906, inspiring author Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. Psychological tests of intelligence were admitted into court for the first time in an acquittal of sixteen-year-old Jean Gianini in 1914. Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins collect these historic narratives of murder and mayhem in Herkimer County.

Author: Michael Cooney
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499610000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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In the winter of 1885 William Druse disappeared from his run-down farm near the tiny village of Jordanville, New York. It took a month for the suspicions of his neighbors to lead the local sheriff to arrest Druse's wife Roxy for killing her husband with an axe. Even more horrific stories circulated of how she forced her son, daughter and nephew to dismember and burn the body. Some even said she fed their father's remains to the pigs. The trial which followed became the center of a newly sensational national press and drew the curious and morbid to the county courthouse in Herkimer. Among them was an aspiring young journalist named W. H. Tippetts who, as Roxy Druse fought for her life, published a short book detailing all of the county's murders from colonial times, culminating in an interview with Roxy herself. Despite a spirited campaign to save her life life, she was hung in Herkimer in 1887 while her daughter Mary received a ten year sentence as accomplice. This novel is based very closely on those events, as seen through the eyes of W.H. Tippetts, but presents a new view of Roxy Druse not as a cold-blooded murder but as a mother who would do anything to save the lives of her children. Also included is Tippetts' own history of the county's numerous murders in the years leading up to 1887.

Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: William H. Tippetts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781462232185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Hardcover reprint of the original 1885 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. for quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Tippetts, William H. Herkiner County Murders. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Tippetts, William H. Herkiner County Murders, . Herkimer, N.Y., H. P. Witherstine & Co., Printers, 1885. Subject: Crime and Criminals

Author: Daniel Allen Hearn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786432479
Category : Executions and executioners
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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On August 5, 1639, Gregory Peterson, a soldier at the Fort Amsterdam garrison, was executed by a firing squad for an unknown act of mutiny. Peterson was the first person known to be executed in what was to become New York. All known executions conducted in or by the estate of New York from 1639 through 1963 are covered here. In 1963 the last execution occurred before the state formally abolished the death penalty in 1965 (and reinstated it in 1995). Arranged chronologically, each entry includes the executed person's name and race, and the crime for which he or she was sentenced to death. This is followed by details of the crime and information on the place and method of execution.