Today’s Explosive Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Mine Inspector’s Report for HOUGHTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1903.
ACCIDENT No. 4—November 10. Henry Ninnes lost his life by a premature explosion at the 4th level south of No. 3. Shaft at the Trimountain Mine. The deceased and his partner, James Ingman, drilled three holes in the cutting out stope and prepared them for blasting. Henry Ninnes lit the fuse of two holes on the foot side of the stope and crossed over to the hanging side and fired the third fuse, when the explosion occurred, killing Ninnes and badly injuring Ingman. No inquest was held.
Culled from: Some Fatal Accidents in the Atlantic, Baltic, Champion, Trimountain and Winona Copper Mines
Vintage Crime Photo Du Jour!
MURDERED A GOOD SAMARITAN
FEBRUARY 21, 1940
Daily News Photo
Annie Beatrice Henry held for press photographers by Sheriff Henry W. Reid of Calcasieu parish.
Joseph Calloway paid for his life for playing the good Samaritan. Spotting a dreary woman and a male companion trudging wearily along the roadside outside Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Valentine’s Day 1940, he stopped to offer a ride. The Houston salesman was led into a field, stripped of his clothes, and killed as he knelt begging for his life. Although her companion, Horace Finon Burks, was also indicted, Mrs. Annie Beatrice (Toni Jo) Henry confessed that she fired the shot that killed Calloway. She robbed him, she said, in an effort to get money to finance her murderer-husband’s appeal. Instead, she landed herself on death row. After being found guilty twice in verdicts that were overturned, she was convicted a third time and became the second white woman to be executed in Louisiana, on November 28, 1942.
Culled from: New York Noir
Garretdom!
How a Farmer Met His Death.
READING, Pa., Sept. 22.—Joseph G. Miller, a farmer aged twenty-nine years, of Lazarette, Chester county, was awakened during the night, got up, and in searching for a match knocked a revolver off the mantelpiece, discharging it and sending the ball into his abdomen. He exclaimed: “I’m shot!” and died.
Culled from the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
1886 Morbid Scrapbook