Murder & Mayhem in Herkimer County

Caryl Hopson, Susan R. Perkins

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781439668665
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins collect historic narratives of murder and mayhem in Herkimer County.

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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• John Adam Hartmann, the Leatherstocking Man
• The People Versus Eleven-Year-Old John Bowman
• The Great Little Falls Bank Robbery
• Murder Most Diabolical and Atrocious
• A Drink to Make Up
• The Murder of Anson Casler
• The Black Widow of Warren
• Mashed to Death
• Murder by the Mansion
• The Murders of Bellinger and Hayes
• The Murder of Orlo Davis
• The Murder of Moses Craig Holden Sr.
• The John Wishart Murder
• A Timeless Tragedy
• The Hanging of a Murderess
• Murder in Middleville
• Quarrel Over a Button
• Vale of Tears
• Jealous Lover: The Ella Ausman Murder
• Nellie Had a Date with Death
• The Case of Infanticide
• An Unusual Tragedy
• Chester Gillette
• A Rocky Marriage Ends in an Axe Blow
• Murder on Garden Street
• Caught on Film
• A Murder of Forgiveness
• Arthur W. Wood Murdered in Schuyler
• The Notorious 1916 Little Falls Trunk Murder
• The Killing of Henry Werner
• Lured to Their Deaths: The Mulkoon Affair
• A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
• Wagner-Hotaling Murder of Little Falls
• The Final Argument
• The Trespassing Cows
• The Brewer Mystery
• Taken for a Ride: Paolo Basile
• The Last Still Raid
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Editors