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    Murder on the Mountain: Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey

    Posted By: arundhati
    Date: 15 Sep 2023 04:10:40
    Murder on the Mountain: Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey

    Peter J. Wosh, "Murder on the Mountain: Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey"
    English | ISBN: 1978829140 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 4 MB

    Margaret Klem and John Meierhofer were Bavarian immigrants who arrived in New Jersey in the 1850s, got married, and started a small farm in West Orange. When John returned from the Civil War, he was a changed man, neglecting his work and beating his wife. Margaret was left to manage the farm and endure the suspicion of neighbors, who gossiped about her alleged affairs. Then one day in 1879, John turned up dead with a bullet in the back of his head. Margaret and her farmhand, Dutch immigrant Frank Lammens, were accused of the crime, and both went to the gallows, making Margaret the last woman to be executed by the state of New Jersey.

    Was Margaret the calculating murderess and adulteress portrayed by the press? Or was she a battered wife pushed to the edge? Or was she, as she claimed to the end, innocent?
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