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Anna Antonio, an abused wife or 'Evil little Anna'? Or perhaps both?
“I know I’m going to die. I don’t mind now. There never was any real hope.” – Anna Antonio, hours before her execution. Seldom remembered today, Anna Antonio is interesting not for her crime (which was a typically squalid murder) but for what law and society made her endure after committing it. Married to railroad worker and suspected drug dealer Salvatore Antonio, their marriage certainly…
Alphonse Brengard. Justice delayed, but not denied.
When New York cop-killer Alphonse Brengard walked his last mile at Sing Sing on September 6, 1934 it may have been with a firm sense of time and his crimes having finally caught up with him. Brengard died for a murder effectively committed years before, but he was not to wait in Sing Sing’s infamous ‘Death House’ for very long. After evading the law for several years after the shooting, Brengard…
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On This Day in 1941, Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles does the Half-Moon Hop.
On This Day in 1941, Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles does the Half-Moon Hop.
On the night of November 12, 1941. Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, once a senior member of Murder Inc. and now one of the most important canaries in American history, prepared a makeshift ladder from the sixth floor of the Half Moon Hotel on Coney Island, New York. He was in protective custody preparing to turn state’s evidence against perhaps New York’s most vicious mobster, Albert ‘Lord High…
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On This Day in 1980: Willie ‘The Actor’ Sutton, Master Bank Robber, Dies.
On This Day in 1980: Willie ‘The Actor’ Sutton, Master Bank Robber, Dies.
Sutton, one of America’s most successful bank robbers, also ranked as one of its most remarkable. The robber of over 100 banks and taking at least a million dollars, Sutton did it without ever firing a shot. While robbers like John Dillinger would kill whenever they thought necessary and ‘Baby Face’ Nelson killed for the sheer joy of it, Sutton eschewed violence. His game was robbing for…
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On This Day in 1901: Leon Czolgosz, Presidential Assassin.
On This Day in 1901: Leon Czolgosz, Presidential Assassin.
When disturbed loner and some-time Anarchist Leon Czolgosz was convicted for assassinating President William McKinley, Judge Truman White’s sentencing was brief. The crime had been committed on Septmber 6 1901, President McKinley dying of infection from Czolgosz’s bullet on September 9. Now, on September 23 only two weeks after the President’s death, his assassin was to be condemned. He would de…
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On This Day in 1957: Albert Anastasia, New York’s ‘Lord High Executioner,’ Murdered.
On This Day in 1957: Albert Anastasia, New York’s ‘Lord High Executioner,’ Murdered.
Anastasia, murdered while getting a shave at New York’s Park Sheraton Hotel, was and remains one of the most callous and murderous criminals in American history. An illegal immigrant who jumped ship in 1919, he also jumped into New York’s underworld. Born into poverty in Parghelia, Italy in 1920 he would die in 1957, rich beyond his wildest dreams and probably the most feared Mafioso of his time.…
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Lewis E. Lawes, Sing Sing’s longest-serving, most controversial (and perhaps most conflicted) Warden.
Lewis E. Lawes, Sing Sing’s longest-serving, most controversial (and perhaps most conflicted) Warden.
“The only law in Sing Sing is Lawes.” – Lawes on his tough-but-fair prison regime.
Lewis Lawes occupies a contradictory place in American penal history. His detractors often accused him of coddling prisoners, of being too soft when a hard-line approach was considered the best (and often only) way to handle New York State’s toughest prisoners.
When hard-timers deserved only hard time…
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A Deadly Debut, Robert Elliott’s First Execution.
A Deadly Debut, Robert Elliott’s First Execution.
Robert Greene Elliott, State Electrician for New York and five other states, is often listed as making his official debut in January 1926 when he executed Emil Klatt and Luigi Rapito. They’re often said to be the first of the 387 state and Federal prisoners Elliott executed during his thirteen-year tenure as executioner. They were not, Elliott’s debut occurred as early as 1904 during the…
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