Coming early this week, we’ll be re-releasing FATAL DROP: TRUE TALES OF THE CHICAGO GALLOWS as an ebook at a special low price! This new edition will feature the complete text, revised and expanded with several new sections! Here is an excerpt of some new material:
APPENDIX: LAST MEALS |
Buff Higgins: March 23, 1894:
spring chicken, raw oysters, fried eggs, fried potatoes, biscuits, coffee, and apple pie.
Patrick Prendergast (assassin of Mayor Harrison): July 13, 1894
Porterhouse steak, French fried potatoes, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, hot biscuits and a pot of hot chocolate
Isaac Jacobsen: Sept 19, 1884
ham and eggs, spring chicken, strong coffee
Haymarket Anarchists: Nov 11, 1887
steak, eggs, toast, fried oysters.
George Painter (wife murderer whose rope broke; he had to be hanged twice):
half a spring chicken, a dozen raw oysters, bread, butter, coffee, and a dollar’s worth of cigars.
William Powers, 1897:
Frogs’ legs, ham and eggs, mushroom, french fried potatoes, celery, coffee, a cigar.
John Lattimore, 1897:
fried fish, oatmeal, custard, strawberry shortcake, ice cream, coffee.
Check out the ebook for the full scoop on these men and their crimes! Now available for just 2.99