Archive for April, 2015
Mug Shot Monday! Mark Maxwell, 1919
In August 1919, Mark Maxwell worked for the railway division of the US Postal Service when he embezzled $9,000 from registered banking deposits bound for the Federal Reserve. Stationed in Mansfield, Washington, Maxwell tried to evade capture by traveling across the country to New York City. Distancing himself from the crime didn’t help and the […]
Posted: April 20th, 2015 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1900-1919, Washington State
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Serial Killer Anna Marie Hahn, 1933-1938
Anna Marie Hahn was a female serial killer who became the first woman ever to be executed in Ohio after it was confirmed that she poisoned five old men to death in order to gain their estates through fraudulently produced wills or by raiding their bank accounts. In 1927, Anna emigrated from Germany and settled […]
Posted: April 17th, 2015 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1930s, Execution, Ohio, Serial Killer, Women
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Mug Shot Monday! Murderer Paul Clein, 1909
Paul Clein On March 1, 1909, thirty-six-year-old German immigrant, Paul Clein, and Polish immigrant John Saudawski, also in his late thirties, were seen together eating supper at a German bakery in Spokane, Washington. Three weeks later, Saudawski’s partially burned body was found on the Fort George Wright military reservation[1] on the outskirts of Spokane. When […]
Posted: April 13th, 2015 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1900-1919, Murder, Washington State
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