The Cape Cod murder of 1899
Edwin Ray Snow's punishment and redemption
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Author
Publication
2007 - History Press, Charleston, SC, South Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
23,500 words, Guess
Page Count
94 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL17850071M
- ISBN-139781596292277
- OCLC Control Number84837929
- OCLC Control Numbercapecodmurderof100barb
- Library of Congress Control Number2007005211
and 2 more
- LibraryThing6617400
- Goodreads2035114
Classifications
- DDC364.152/3092
- LCCHV6248.S6133 B3 2007
Description
On a crisp September evening in 1899, a seventeen-year-old petty thief named Edwin Ray Snow shot and killed a bakery deliveryman named Jimmy Whittemore outside Yarmouth. The gunshots rang out for only a moment, but the effects resounded on Cape Cod for half a century. The idyllic atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Cape Cod was shattered in a flash. Soon after the crime, Snow pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree, and was the first person ever to be sentenced to death by electric chair in Massachusetts history. But his compelling story didn't end there, and his redemption--earned through decades of hard time--was as dramatic and uplifting as his crime was heinous. Drawing upon town records, historical documents, correspondence and newspapers of the day, The Cape Cod Murder of 1899 recreates the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth at the turn of the century and examines the details of a murder that shook Cape Cod to its core.
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