Murder in Steuben County
9781467171038
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%A Century of Murder Upstate
Nestled in the heart of upstate New York, Steuben County’s rural scenery belies a sinister past.
Since the hanging of Robert Douglass in 1825, the county has been the center of a series of murders that resulted in controversial outcomes. Seaman Simons, part of an alleged love triangle, cheated his death sentence after killing his rival. “The Wayland Murderess” Mary Hess inexplicably shot her neighbor and brother within minutes of each other. David Dunn became the only person from the county to die in Auburn Prison’s electric chair, and Hugh Bray’s delusions about a young man breaking up his landlord’s home climaxed in a fatal scene.
R. Marcin, author of Murder and Mayhem in the Finger Lakes, presents a century of this picturesque county’s darkest history.
Murder & Mayhem in Early Jay County, Indiana
9781467157100
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Bucolic hamlets or festering cesspools? The fledgling towns of Jay County were touted by early newspapers as both.
As populations thrived, so did crime and disorder. Tempers flared. Romance bloomed and faded. Political and social lines were drawn and crossed. Sensational accounts of robbery, assault, and murder grabbed the headlines. Criminals were hunted by an overworked and undertrained police force. When, and if, they were caught, alleged offenders were tried not only by the judicial system but also by the press and public opinion.
Looking beyond the headlines at the impact of crime on a small community, local author Chris Kennedy Nixon examines criminals and their victims and provides a snapshot in time of social ideals about gender, politics, wealth, and poverty.
