Mary Frances Creighton
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Mary Frances Creighton 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.
Electric chair
Execution by electrocution, usually performed using an electric chair, is an execution method originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body...
, Old Sparky
Old Sparky
Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, New York, Texas, and Virginia. It was the nickname of the long-retired electric chair at the now-closed West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville, West...
, for the poisoning of Appelgate's wife, Ada, in Baldwin, New York
Baldwin, New York
Baldwin is the name of some places in the U.S. state of New York:*Baldwin, Chemung County, New York *Baldwin, Nassau County, New York...
on September 27, 1935.