1876: Owen Lindsay, of the Baldwinsville Homicide
1 comment February 11th, 2019 Headsman
Friend of the site (and sometime guest-blogger) Robert Wilhelm brings this story from his essential Murder by Gaslight
Lindsay’s trip to the gallows began when a mysterious body was fished out of the drink in the upstate New York village of Baldwinsville.
Much as with Homer Simpson (electrocuted in 1929), posterity might indulge a chuckle that the instrument of Lindsay’s hanging was a fellow bearing the subsequently interesting name of Vader; needless to say, though, the means by which Lindsay and his Sith accomplice put Francis Colvin into the Seneca River was no elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Find the whole post at MBG right here.
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Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,Murder,New York,USA
Tags: 1870s, 1876, baldwinsville, bishop vader, francis colvin, names, owen lindsay
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