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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Eagle Archive: Murder and mayhem led to Carroll's last public hanging in 1916

Eagle Archive: Murder and mayhem led to Carroll's last public hanging in 1916


Two sensational murders were the talk of Carroll County in February years ago.

The first involved a thrilling trial and the other, a murder which resulted in the hanging of Solomon Sutler, Friday, April 14, 1916, on gallows purchased from Adams County for $25.00. It was the third and last hanging in the county’s history.

The first hanging was in June 1859, when the only woman ever to have been executed here, Rebecca McCormack, was hung for stabbing a 13-year-old boy with a pitchfork. Then, in 1874, Joseph Davis was hanged.

On May 21, 1920 the now defunct Union Bridge Pilot wrote about the thrilling trial for the January 29, 1920 murder of Dominick Fabrizzi. “The trial of Mrs. Dominick Fabrizzi aged 29 who admitted killing her husband near here…, then placing the body on the R. R. tracks, was begun in Westminster on Monday morning…” … http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0219-20120215,0,7885898.story


Carroll Co Dist Myers Silver Run, Carroll County crime history, Dayhoff Media Explore Carroll, Dayhoff writing essays crime, History, History 1910s, 

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