Murders of Herkimer County
Title | Murders of Herkimer County PDF eBook |
Author | W. H. Tippetts |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2011-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0615219551 |
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.
Murder & Mayhem in Herkimer County
Title | Murder & Mayhem in Herkimer County PDF eBook |
Author | Edited by Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467144398 |
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.
Herkimer County Murders
Title | Herkimer County Murders PDF eBook |
Author | William H. Tippetts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Crime and criminals |
ISBN |
Herkimer County Murders
Title | Herkimer County Murders PDF eBook |
Author | W. H. Tippetts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 49 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | Judicial error |
ISBN |
The Hoyt-Wallis Murder Mystery in Herkimer County
Title | The Hoyt-Wallis Murder Mystery in Herkimer County PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Greiner |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2023-08-21 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1439678693 |
Warren township in the southern portion of Herkimer County has been the scene of more than one gruesome event. In January 1885, locals reeled in horror when disgruntled wife Roxalana Druse shot her husband and dismembered his corpse to incinerate it in a farm house stove. Her trial and hanging was followed up in May of 1901 with two murders in yet another farm house kitchen. John C. Wallis had allowed his ex-wife Arvilla to return home, one year after running off with hired farm hand Ben Hoyt. Wallis then rehired Hoyt and within months both Ben Hoyt and Arvilla Wallis were dead. Did Ben Hoyt murder Arvilla in cold blood or did John C. Wallis kill both of them? Author James M. Greiner investigates a mysterious case of marriage, infidelity and multiple murders in turn of the century Herkimer County.
Murder in Herkimer County
Title | Murder in Herkimer County PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Oarr Eggleston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2020-10-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Ten horrific, gruesome, murder tales specifically set in the Herkimer County region.
Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher: The Shocking 1914 Case of a Vengeful Student
Title | Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher: The Shocking 1914 Case of a Vengeful Student PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Webster |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 146713645X |
In 1914, Poland, New York, was a picturesque slice of small-town America. But that innocence was shattered with the shocking murder of beloved schoolteacher Lida Beecher at the hands of her former student Jean Gianini. At twenty-one years old, Lida wasn't much older than her students. The son of a successful furniture dealer, Jean had all the advantages in life, but he had been labeled as different by all who encountered him. The shocking murder brought the world's best alienists to the packed Herkimer County Courthouse to try to prove that the teenager's mental development precluded his guilt. Author Dennis Webster utilizes unprecedented access to court documents to reveal details of the sensational crime never before made known to the public.