The Dead Were Once Someone Too: Thriller Thursday

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Thursday, 22 December 2016

Thriller Thursday: Roxbury Negress Stabbed to Death

Brockton Daily Enterprise
Tuesday, January 23, 1945
Page Two

Roxbury Negress Stabbed to Death

BOSTON, Jan. 23.―(UP)―A 22-year-old Roxbury negress was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife in her apartment early to-day, and police later seized another negress who allegedly admitted the slaying.

The victim, Mrs. Effie Barber, and her assailant allegedly were talking with two sailors in the apartment when the stabbing occurred. The suspect, a 23-year-old Roxbury woman, is being held as a suspicious person. Police are also questioning the two sailors.

Thursday, 28 July 2016

Thriller Thursday: 12, Stomps on Baby

Brockton Daily Enterprise

Thursday, August 13, 1936
Page Six

12, Stomps on Baby

"I loved him. I didn't mean to hurt him, but he was crying, hollering and bothering me. I was mad at him. I jumped on him, up and down, with my shoes on. Then he stopped crying and hollering because he could not any more. He just laid there." In this manner, 12-year-old Consuela Sanchez of Lordsburg, N. M., above, reputedly confessed how she caused the death of her two-year-old nephew, Manuel Rodrigues of El Paso, Tex., who died shortly after reaching a hospital. El Paso county juvenille authorities ordered Consuela to a reform school.

Thriller Thursday: DEAD WEEK WHEN FOUND

The Brockton Times
Friday, August 20, 1915
Page Three

DEAD WEEK WHEN FOUND

Mrs. Ora Goodwin of Brookline called at her mother's house in Sharon Thursday and found the woman, Mrs. Mary Elsie York, dead in the living room. Mrs. York, who was 73, had been dead a week, succumbing to apoplexy, according to Medical Examiner W. O. Faxon.