Murder on the Mountain: Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey by Patricia L. Schall, Peter J. Wosh

Murder on the Mountain: Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey

Patricia L. Schall, Peter J. Wosh

256 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

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"Murder on the Mountain tells the story of Margaret Meierhofer, the last woman executed by the State of New Jersey, who was hung - along with a farmhand drifter named Frank Lammens -- in Newark at the Essex County Jail in January 1881 for murderin...

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