Z is for Anna ZWANZIGER

All Month I've been blogging 19th century true crimes, mostly from my own book, Bread & Butter The Murders of Polly Frisch. Other posts were from other crimes, which leads to Z for Anna Maria Zwanziger.  In retrospect, some now refer to Anna as a serial killer. In...

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Y is for YARD, Grave Yard that is

An excerpt from Bread & Butter the Murders of Polly Frisch. A 19th century true crime. Tombstone of Henry Hoag/e, murdered by his wife Polly. The bodies must have been moved prior to the inquests as records show the exhumations were performed at the cemetery in...

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X is for Ten -a Page from the Murders of Polly Frisch

I was hard pressed for X, like most people, and I had nothing in my crime files. So... X is roman numeral ten, IX is for nine. We often see these pages in non-fiction for an introduction, forward etc. So I am giving page IX of Bread & Butter the Murders of  Polly...

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W is for Little WILLIE

As you can tell all month I've been blogging 19th century crimes. I thought I'd mix it up with something humorous but still with criminal intent--and only a smidgen over the 19th century border--early 1900s. From Ruthless Rhymes. Harry Graham made his debut in 1902 with...

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V is for VERDICT

The following is an excerpt from Bread & Butter the Murders of Polly Frisch. Old Genesee County Court House where Polly Frisch was tried for murder. Still in use today for Bankruptcy court and is on the National Register of Historic Places.  *** I'm not going...

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U is for UNDERSHERIFF

The following is an excerpt for Bread & Butter the Murders of Polly Frisch. Old Genesee County Jail, pre-1900. Sunday the 3rd was to be a day of rest, and the jury needed it. It was a difficult task deciding the fate of Polly Frisch. The jurors were lodged at the...

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TRIAL for the Murder of J. L. Lynch

One of the most famous murder cases in Genesee County NY was that of the trial of E. N. Rowell for the murder of his wife's lover, Johnson Lynch. It was a trial that was printed well beyond my area of the state as you will see by a clip below.  Rowell was quite beloved...

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S is for SURROGATE'S Court

An excerpt from Bread & Butter The Murders of Polly Frisch. A 19th century true crime. The Hoag(e) family plot. Alabama Center Cemetery. Alabama, NY. TO THE SURROGATE COURT OF GENESEE COUNTY: The petition of Mary Hoage of the town of Alabama in the County of...

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R is for ROSALIE Hoag

An excerpt from Bread and Butter The Murders of Polly Frisch.  A 19th century murder. The Hoag(e) family plot. Alabama Center Cemetery. Alabama, NY. ...

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Bread and Butter 11

Tombstone of Henry Hoag(e) - Alabama Center Cemetery, Alabama, NY SETUP: Henry is now dead and Polly is moving on with her plans to get Matthew Bardwell back in the shoe shop. But then there is the matter of the children ... AND NOW THE SNIPPET: In a conversation she...

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Q is for QUACKENBUSH

The choice for letter Q came to mind immediately. I went to my file cabinet and pulled the case file of Thomas B. Quackenbush, for the 1876 rape and murder of the widow Sarah Norton. This particular man did not escape the gallows. Excerpts from one news article is below. ***...

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P is for POLLY FRISCH

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