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By: ExecutedToday.com » 1901: Leon Czolgosz, William McKinley’s assassin

ExecutedToday.com » 1901: Leon Czolgosz, William McKinley’s assassin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:03:23 +0000

[...] third assassination of an American chief executive in the span of 36 years (with similar fates for James Garfield’s killer and the Lincoln conspirators) led the Secret Service, originally a Treasury Department [...]

By: ExecutedToday.com » 1630: John Billington, signer of the Mayflower Compact

ExecutedToday.com » 1630: John Billington, signer of the Mayflower Compact — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:49:50 +0000

[...] Billington is supposed to be a distant ancestor to American President James Garfield. [...]

By: ExecutedToday.com » 1880: Edwin Hoyt, in Bridgeport

ExecutedToday.com » 1880: Edwin Hoyt, in Bridgeport — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:25:57 +0000

[...] BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May 13. — The first administration of capital punishment in Fairfield County since 1809 occurred in this city to-day. Edwin Hoyt was hanged for the murder of his father, in the Town of Sherman, June 23, 1878. Hoyt was then 37 years of age, and had shown during his life a very ugly disposition. His wife, the mother of his five children, had experienced his temper in a manner which placed her life in danger, he having discharged a shot-gun at her and severely wounded her. On the Sunday of the murder he had nothing to exasperate him except the refusal of his brother-in-law to accompany him on a fishing trip. Having been refused, he went home, and, taking a butcher-knife from his house, told his wife that he was going to kill his father. He then returned to the house of his brother-in-law, where his father was at the dinner-table with the family. He appearad [sic] despondent, and said it would be better for him to die, but that there were two or three people he wanted to kill first. He then went to the porch and sat down with his father. A few minutes afterward he sprang up and stabbed his father several times, making a fatal wound in the neck. Hoyt was tried twice, the first time in October, 1878, and the second time in April, 1879. The State claimed that the motive for the killing was animosity toward his father, who had always exercised great severity toward him, and who, he believed, had decided to wholly disinherit him. The defense in both cases was that of insanity. [...]

By: Dodgeblogium » CoTV and on

Dodgeblogium » CoTV and on — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:08:13 +0000

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By: Former NMHM PAO

Former NMHM PAO — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:39:27 +0000

Garfield’s vertebrae are not currently on display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.