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Orange County |
Crime News Stories
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Orange County |
Murder
Montrose, June 27 -- We have just been informed that a horrid murder was committed on the person of Jonathan Brooks of Orange county, N.Y. one mile from Belmont, in Wayne county, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday last (25th inst.) Since the above was in type, we understand the murderer has been taken and conveyed to the jail of Wayne county - Register. [Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA, July 9, 1828 - Sub. by Nancy Piper]
A Negro Executed in Clinton Prison
Dannemora, Feb 1 - The electric chair in Clinton Prison claimed another victim this morning when Samuel Ford, a Negro, was electrocuted for the murder of Captora Ashe, a colored woman, with whom he was living at Brown's Station, Ulster Co. Ford was convicted on circumstantial evidence. He went to his death calmly and without confessing. The current was turned on at 6:06 a.m. and after three shocks in quick succession, he was pronounced dead.
Ford murdered his victim with a razor on March 27, 1909. He was employed on reservoir construction work on the new aqueduct and had quarrelled with the Ashe woman who threatened to leave him and return to New York. The case was carried to the Court of Appeals which affirmed the judgment of the Trial Court.
[Newburgh Journal, Feb 1, 1911 - Submitted by K.T.]
Chicken thieves have begun their round of visitation and were so bold as to visit the hen roost after the fowls were fed in the morning. Mr. D.B. Cromwell went out at noon to feed them again and found four missing. Several weeks ago Mr. D.S. Strong had over twenty taken from his hen house at Cedar Hill. [Newburgh Journal, Feb 1, 1911 - Submitted by K.T.]
John DeGroot, who has just been serving a term of imprisonment imposed by the Recorder was today taken before Justice Westlake of Middle Hope, on a warrant charging him with having broken windows in the cars of the Orange County Traction Co., sometime ago. He was found guilty and sentenced to 20 days in jail.
[Newburgh Journal, Feb 1, 1911 - Submitted by K.T.]
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