electricchair
6 photos tagged electricchair, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.
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- charlesbecker
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Recent uploads
The last upload was October 2013.
Unidentified men talking by an electric chair display in Tallahassee, Florida from Florida Memory uploaded October 2013
Crowds waiting in rain for glimpse of body (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded November 2010
Floral display at Dago Frank's funeral (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded November 2010
Police Lieut. Chas. Becker - N.Y. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2009
Rev. C.V. Richeson (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded October 2008
Becker on way to Sing Sing (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded March 2008
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Rev. C.V. Richeson (LOC)
- Nathan Adams said:
- lmharnisch said:
- The Library of Congress said:
Police Lieut. Chas. Becker - N.Y. (LOC)
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BobMeade said:
You scoundrel! law.jrank.org/pages/2780/Charles-Becker-Trials-1912-14.html And there are plenty of photographs relating to his trial, conviction and punishment here: www.flickr.com/search/?q=Becker&w=8623220@N02
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Wystan said:
The guilty verdict in Becker's original trial was overturned by an appeals court in 1913, but a retrial found him guilty again. He was the only policeman in U. S. history to die in the electric chair.
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productive side said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called sad world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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productive side said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called soulful group, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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productive side said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called a new world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Becker on way to Sing Sing (LOC)
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Harry Angstrom said:
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.
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swanq said:
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/
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The Library of Congress said:
We'll fix the date and add a subject note. Thanks!
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Wystan said:
A Bain/LOC closeup photo portrait of Charles Becker: