Ep. 54 - Onion Syrup Poisonings & Razor Suicides

On this week’s episode, Genevieve will discuss onion syrup poisonings, vigilante justice, razor suicides, jealous quarrels, horrible… truly horrible murders, Russian piggy-back rides and a narrow escape from death that ends in quite a significant amount of blushing. She will also discuss why executions are usually done at the crack of dawn, a little about spirit photography and why some ghosts maintain their deathly visages while others do not.

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References for today’s episode:

https://www.murderbygaslight.com/2021/10/a-great-burly-broad-shouldered-bully.html

“Two Spectral Lodgers : Ghosts in a Fourteenth-Street Boarding House” - The New York Times, Jun. 24, 1881.

"HOW MR. S. C. HALL SAW A SPIRIT!" - The Spiritualist, Nov. 19th, 1869.

"FREE LOVE AND POISON" - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 7th 1871.

"A Man Accused of Rape Leaves the World With a Razor” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 18th, 1872.

“A Wife Murderer Hanged by a Mob in Richmond, KY.” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

"Jealous Quarrels Ended by a Frail Woman's Suicide" - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 1st, 1872.

"Reception of the Grand Duke Alexi in New York" - The Illustrated Police News, Nov. 30th, 1871.

“Another Horrible Murder” - Central Missouri Herald, Feb. 1st, 1877.

“The Last of Mabel Hall” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mar. 9th, 1876.

"A Lady’s Clothing Becomes Entangled in the Machinery of a Mill in Westmoreland County, Pa., and She has a Narrow Escape from Death" - The Illustrated Police News, May 20th, 1875.

"A Baker Booted in Boston" - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th, 1872.