History Of the Death Penalty in NH

[SteveA]

This article from todays Citizen.

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll...1/CITNEWS00502

The use of language was remarkably clear back then. Before "political correctness" . "dropping Thomas Samon into eternity"

I wonder about what what Thomas Samon did to earn this end, and did find this site that reports on the use of the death penalty in NH.

http://www.dipity.com/WMUR/History_O...Hampshire/list

Here's a little more on the late Mr. Samon.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...649D94629FD7CF

See what the too long winter does to people..

I think I'll go get an update from the Red Sox spring training site.. hope springs eternal.

[fatlazyless]

Buoy, that's some terrible crime what with Thomas Samon killing two separate people, a man and a women, apparently unrelated, in a period of maybe two days or so, while very drunk, in Laconia NH on Dec 4, 1883.

For a N Y Times article: "The Laconia Crime Confessed" "Salmon the murderer tells how he took the lives of his two victims," it is pretty danged graphic and detailed. From Dec 4, 1883, NY Times...maybe the Laconia Daily Sun could start a crime column stylized to 1883 news writing ...

Today's brief article in the Citizen is more about the making of the hanging gallows that were constructed by the Laconia car works co (a street car maker) than about the crime, victims or killer.

Notice the two large comparision photos of the Laconia car works location, then and now.

Am I the only one who almost always thinks that the older photo in this regular Saturday Citizen photo feature is much better looking than the present photo. Typically, the old photo of 100-years ago or so shows beautifull large wood Victorian homes and large majestic elm trees that tower over well-maintained dirt city streets traveled by neat horse drawn buggies, while the current photo shows either a vacant lot, or a brick utility style, commercial building of the mid-20th century, featureless, ugly brick, box style.