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Wicked Herkimer County

Author: Caryl Hopson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1439673713

From Little Falls to Frankfort, Herkimer County is no stranger to the seamier side of life. The drowning murder of Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake and the ensuing trial of Chester Gillette was the inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's famous novel An American Tragedy. Medical students from the Fairfield Medical College attempted to rob local graves for cadavers, drawing the ire of local residents, who formed a mob to meet them. Outlaw thieves faced off against New York City detectives in a gun battle at Camp Utica in Old Forge. Hotheaded shootings and Prohibition raids were rampant at the liquor-soaked lumberjack camp of Beaver River Station in Webb. Editors Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins have assembled a collection of narratives that offer a glimpse into the seedy underbelly of Herkimer County's wicked past.

Wicked Herkimer County

Author: Caryl Hopson

Publisher: History Press

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781540249746

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Wicked Adirondacks

Author: Dennis Webster

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-02-05

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1614239061

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While the Adirondack Mountains are New York's most beautiful region, they have also been plagued by insidious crimes and the nasty escapades of notorious lawbreakers. In 1935, public enemy number one, Dutch Schultz, went on trial and was acquitted in an Adirondack courtroom. Crooks have tried creative methods to sidestep forestry laws that protect the flora of the state park. Members of the infamous Windfall Gang, led by Charles Wadsworth, terrorized towns and hid out in the high mountains until their dramatic 1899 capture. In the 1970s, the Adirondack Serial Killer, Robert Francis Garrow, petrified campers in the hills. Join local author Dennis Webster as he explores the wicked deeds and sinister characters hidden among the Adirondacks' peaks.

Murders of Herkimer County

Author: W. H. Tippetts

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 0615219551

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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

Author: Edited by Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1467144398

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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.

Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher: The Shocking 1914 Case of a Vengeful Student

Author: Dennis Webster

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 146713645X

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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.