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Charles Becker execution...
Item # 629644
July 30, 1915
LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, from Leominster, Massachusetts, dated July 30, 1915
* Charles Becker executed at Sing Sing prison
This 8 page newspaper has a two line headline on the front page:
* BECKER GAME TO THE LAST
with subheads: "Curtain Drops Upon Tragedy of Gotham Gun Play" "Doomed Man Denied His Guilt"
Note: Becker, according to a source, was the first American police officer to receive the death penalty for murder.
Other news of the day. Usual browning with little margin wear, otherwise good.
wikipedia notes: Charles Becker (July 26, 1870 - July 30, 1915) was a New York City police officer in the 1890's and 1910's and who was tried, convicted and executed for ordering the murder of a Manhattan gambler, Herman Rosenthal. Becker was the first American police officer to receive the death penalty for murder. The scandal that surrounded his arrest, conviction, and execution was one of the most important in Progressive Era New York in the 1890s and 1910s.
Category: The 20th Century
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