A call back to the sadly demobilized crime blog CLEWS for the double execution on this date in 1927 of Louisiana adulterous lovers Ada Bonner LeBoeuf and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher, for the murder (via hireling) of Mrs. LeBoeuf’ husband …
The first-degree murder trial that followed a month after the murder of Mr. LeBoeuf was billed in the press as one of the Southland’s most sensational legal battles, since, it was reported, the South hadn’t convicted and hanged a white woman for murder since Reconstruction days, and Louisiana had never hanged a white woman for murder, not even in the days of French and Spanish rule.
The trial was a cross-country sensation. The state produced nearly a dozen witnesses who testified to the details of the scandal. Per these many witnesses, the light-o’-loves carried on their small-town affair in the “negro shacks” on the outskirts of the village. The evidence included love letters that were read aloud.
On this day..
- 1944: Franz Kutschera, by underground justice
- 1782: Jose Antonio Galan, for the Revolt of the Comuneros
- 1832: Three Nottingham rioters, for better governance
- 1871: John Hanlon, guilty but framed
- 1612: Bishop Conor O'Devany and Father Patrick O'Loughran
- 1947: Henry Rinnan, Norwegian collaborator
- 1816: Four sodomite sailors of the Africaine
- 2002: Daniel Pearl
- 1931: Severino Di Giovanni, anarchist
- 1924: Alikomiak and Tatimagana, Inuit
- 1968: Nguyen Van Lem
- 1932: Farabundo Marti