- Mary Frances Creighton
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Mary Frances Creighton (1898 - July 16, 1936), was a 38-year-old housewife, who along with Everett Appelgate, a 36-year-old former American Legion official, were executed in Sing Sing Prison's electric chair, Old Sparky, for the poisoning of Appelgate's wife, Ada, in Baldwin, New York on September 27, 1935.[1][2]
References
- ^ "Mrs. Creighton Dies For Poison Murder. Appelgate Follows Her to the Death Chamber for the Slaying of His Wife". New York Times. July 17, 1936. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40715FA3F58107A93C5A8178CD85F428385F9. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
- ^ Jon Blackwell. "Frances Creighton". Notorious New Jersey. http://notoriousnj.com/?page_id=25. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
Categories:- 1936 deaths
- American people convicted of murder
- People executed for murder
- People executed by electric chair
- 20th-century executions by the United States
- People executed by New York
- Executed American people
- 1898 births
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