Stories of 1892

[Allen]

The biggest part of these stories deal with poison and are from the New York Times for 1892. I apologize because one is extremely illegible towards the end, but I included it because it took place in Wheeling W.V, which makes me biased Two of the stories deal with ' Dr. Thomas Neill ' aka Thomas Neill Cream. I'm still working through these, and I might add a few more at a later time. The last couple of news items have nothing whatever to do with poison, and the very last is obviously not from 1892, but I found them so interesting I decided to post them here anyway. You can always tell when I've had my head buried in the Times for awhile, I start posting all kind of articles. If only I had some Fall River newspaper archives so readily available to me.

February 21, 1892 page 2





March 23, 1892 page 1





March 25, 1892 page 5





June 11, 1892 page 8





June 25, 1892 page 1





June 29, 1892 page 1





July 24, 1892 page 9




June 2, 1892 page 9





June 22, 1981

[nbcatlover]

Allen--very interesting clips.

Going through some notes I had made, I have to remark on a man by the name of J. H. Wynne. In the July 26, 1892, edition of the New Bedford Evening Standard, there was an article about Mr. Wynne (not from Massachusetts, but failed to note which state) who "hacked to death" his wife and stepdaughter. He then attempted suicide, failed, and was "hanged by a mob." Considering the date, it almost makes the Borden murders seem like a copycat killing.

I hoped to find something more on the Internet including in which state this occured (for some reason I think Illinois or Iowa) and found this little listing of crimes in the Victorian United States.

http://members.aol.com/wdwylie6/1890-1899.htm

Lynching was quite the mode of punishment.

NOTE: Just found a blog that says Wynne was lynched in Burns, TN.

Off Ancestry.com-Message Board for Dickson County, TN

...info on John N. Anderson who married Fannie Lambert. JOhn died in 1890. His wife remarried to James Wynne. James Wynne axe murdered her and one child. One of their child was William T. Anderson. But after 1900 ...

[Kat]

Thanks for the news items!
Vicky Lincoln left her body to science, I think- do you know?