Norman Gasbarro | October 26, 2016
From the Mount Carmel Item (Pennsylvania), 17 February 1910: FISHER ESCAPES GALLOWS: CONFESSES TO THE CRIME JURY RENDERED SECOND DEGREE VERDICT AT 8:50 LAST NIGHT– JUDGE SAVIDGE DECLARES FISHER GUILTY, SENTENCES HIM TO TWENTY YEARS IN JAIL — MURDERER CONFESSED TO SHERIFF ON WAY BACK TO JAIL Henry Fisher, the foulest degenerate that ever drew […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 24, 2016
The photograph shown above is of the railroad station at Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania. On his trip to Gettysburg on 18 November 1863, Abraham Lincoln had to change trains there. There has been a great deal of speculation as to whether the man standing on the platform between the two trains is Lincoln. In his book, […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 21, 2016
John Peters was born in Ulster County, New York, but when the time came to serve in the Civil War, he was in Philadelphia, and it was there that he enrolled in the 115th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, as a Sergeant, on 9 April 1862. Supposedly, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant on 26 January […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 19, 2016
Part 6 of this murder story will be told in today’s blog post. It begins with the incarceration of Henry Fisher in Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia following his sentencing and ends with the years after his release – with a few surprising twists in-between. The photo above of Eastern Penitentiary was taken in March 2009. […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 17, 2016
George Nagle, born about 1824, enrolled in the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company B, as a Private at Pottsville, on 23 September 1861. He died at Washington, D.C., on 9 January 1864 of typho-malarial fever. His widow, Lucinda [Martz] Nagle applied for pension benefits based on his service, which she received. Fold3 has posted 27 pages […]
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