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Charles Becker "became the first American police officer to receive the death penalty for murder" in the summer of 1915: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Becker

Officer Becker, who was executed:

A picture of the Beckers at the time of his second murder trial in 1914: news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19140512&... The building at 2291 University Avenue in the Bronx, where Helen Becker lived, was also where her husband's body was brought following her husband's execution at Sing Sing on July 30, 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9407EFDF1138E633A... The building and its neighbors look more or less the same in this 2011 Google Street View image, though the gas street lamp has been replaced by an electric one, the stained glass on the stairway windows has been replaced, the basement windows bricked in, and fire escapes added: maps.google.com/maps?q=2291+university+avenue,+n.y.&l...

Thanks to all of you for filling in the story. We'll add some of this information to the record the next time we update.

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What an incredible image!

Serious mens are serious. :)

Charles Seymour Whitman (1868-1947) served as Republican Governor of New York from January 1915 to December 1918. He was also a delegate to Republican National Convention from New York in 1916. Whitman graduated from Williams College, class of 1890. Prior to his election as governor, he served as a New York City municipal judge and as Manhattan District Attorney. As District Attorney, he gained national fame in prosecuting New York City Police Lt. Charles Becker for the July 16, 1912 murder of Times Square gambling house operator Herman Rosenthal in front of West 43rd Street's Hotel Metropole (owned by Lower East Side Tammany Hall leader "Big Tim" Sullivan). Later, as Governor, Whitman signed Becker's death warrant and presided over his electrocution. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._Whitman "Whitman May Lose More Witnesses. District Attorney Finds That Three Are Being Intimidated and Are Wavering." Source: New York Times; September 7, 1912 Weblink: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CE5D81630E233A... "District Attorney Whitman Following Trail Leading to Captains and Detectives. With Grand Juries here and in Lakewood, N.J., grinding out indictments against men who have been engaged in the business of stealing and selling automobiles, the situation here took a turn yesterday where it became probable that police officials, including half a dozen precinct Captains, would become involved." Source: New York Times; April 18, 1914 Weblink: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9803E7D81E39E633A...

Here is article about Charles Becker from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Becker Becker went to the electric chair in Sing Sing three years later, in 1915.

See query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9807E4D61630E233A... 'October 30, 1912, Wednesday Charles Becker, the ex-Police Lieutenant and convicted murderer of Herman Rosenthal, who will be sentenced to death this morning by Justice Goff, in the extraordinary term of the Supreme Court, where his trial ended last Thursday night, has spent his time since then in considering the names of many lawyers as possible successors to his present counsel, Messrs. John F. McIntyre, John W. Hart, Lloyd Stryker, and George W. Whiteside.' See also www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2405655750/ and www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2423488718/

We'll fix the date and add a subject note. Thanks!

A Bain/LOC closeup photo portrait of Charles Becker: