Sadie and Clarence. In April 1894, the murder of Montgomery Gibbs, a successful attorney, caused great excitement in Buffalo, New York. He w...

  Stephen Pettus gave Hannah Southworth a glass of drugged champagne and had his way with her while she was unconscious. Hannah became pregn...

  James E. Eldredge and Sarah Jane Gould. (The Trial of James E Eldredge  ) James E. Eldredge left his home in Canton, New York in the sprin...

 "The verdict of the coroner’s jury charges that Mrs. Druse shot her husband with a revolver, struck him with an axe upon the head, and...

When the press learned that Lydia Sherman had poisoned three husbands and eight children, they called her “The Arch Murderess of Connecticut...

National Police Gazette , December 29, 1888. Franklin Asbury Hawkins murdered his mother on October 29, 1887, and dumped her body, beaten an...

National Police Gazette , June 1, 1889. On May 12, 1889, the janitor of the Clifton Boat Club on Staten Island found the body of a young wom...

Michael Gorman's Last Look at Sing Sing Prison. On October 9, 1888, convicted murderer Michael Gorman walked out of Sing Sing Prison a f...

Charles B. Merrihew became violently ill in May 1879 at his home in Lowville, New York, and was being nursed by his wife, Harriet. They sent...

Myron Buel. “He possesses an expressionless and almost idiotic countenance.”   Illustrated Police News. Myron Buel was called “The Boy Murde...

  When William W. Place’s first wife died, he married his housekeeper, Martha Scovoll. It was a whirlwind courtship and William did not list...

On December 19, 1857, Nathan Newhafer slipped while crossing the Andrews Street Bridge in Rochester, New York. He fell into the Genesee Rive...

  In 1883, Edward Rowell of Batavia, New York, suspected his wife of cheating and set a trap to catch her. He told her he would be gone for ...

The marriage of Charles and Eva Herman had been on the rocks for several years. Their loud and violent fights were so common that neighbors ...

Sudden death seemed to be John Hendrickson’s constant companion. When his six-week-old baby died suddenly, it was viewed as a tragedy. When ...

Sometime after 11:00, the night of January 15, 1888, Mrs. Emma Belden was awakened by someone ringing the front doorbell. She went to the do...

This week, we have a guest post from Howard and Nina Brown, frequent contributors to Murder by Gaslight , on matters pertaining to the 1891 ...

The body of Maggie Hourigan was found floating face down in a small pool of water outside of Greenwich, New York on October 20, 1889. Dr. S....

16-year-old Herbert Warren woke to the sound of his parents fighting at 2 a.m. on June 13, 1890. His father, J. Frank Warren, was frequently...

Harry and Edith Schoonmaker of Brooklyn, New York, appeared to have a perfect marriage in 1888. Henry D. (Harry) Schoonmaker was from a prom...