#Governor Roswell P. Flower

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This week marks the beginning of spring, and today is National Flower Day, so why not appreciate our own local flower... Lake Flower, that is! Did you know that Lake Flower is named not for the beautiful flora that grows around it, but for Governor Roswell P. Flower? In 1910, Governor Flower authorized the funds to remove stumps from the logging industry from the lake so that it could be used for recreational boating. This postcard was mailed by a tuberculosis patient staying at 5 Shepard Avenue in 1913. Happy Spring!⁠⁠

Learn more about Lake Flower on our wiki.

⁠⁠[Historic Saranac Lake Collection, 2021.3.40. Gift of the Florence Wright Tuberculosis Postcard Collection.]

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Lizzie Halliday part 3 While she was in jail Lizzie received national attention with one sensational story after another appearing across the country in tabloid newspapers. The New York World portrayed Lizzie’s case as “unprecedented and almost without parallel in the annals of crime.” She was also covered by the World’s Nellie Bly who eventually managed to get an interview with Lizzie in which she revealed her previous marriages, facts Bly was able to confirm. Another useful source for reporters was Robert Halliday, Paul Halliday’s son. The Sullivan County Sheriff started a new round of speculation when he told the press that Lizzie was probably connected to the Jack the Ripper murders, although no connection was ever made. The revelation that she had been married five times before she wed Paul Halliday, that two of her husbands died less than a year after their weddings, and that Lizzie had tried to poison a third led the press to speculate that she was responsible for at least six deaths. “Whether these men died natural deaths or were murdered, is not known,” The New York Times noted in June 1894. Lizzie also made a claim (confided to Robert Halliday) that she had killed a husband in Belfast, but had managed to conceal the crime. On June 21, 1894, Halliday was convicted at the Sullivan County Oyer and Terminer Court for the murder of Margaret McQuillan and Sarah Jane McQuillan. She became the first woman ever to be sentenced to death by electrocution, via New York State’s new electric chair. Governor Roswell P. Flower later commuted her sentence to life in a mental institution after a medical commission declared her insane. Halliday was sent to the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane where she spent remainder of her life. In 1906 she killed a nurse, Nellie Wickes, by stabbing her 200 times with a pair of scissors. Halliday died on June 18, 1918. #destroytheday (throwback post from June 11th, 2016) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3e16OsB6u9/?igshid=1d78uzh5dva5r

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Lizzie Halliday part 3 She was also covered by the World's Nellie Bly who eventually managed to get an interview with Lizzie in which she revealed her previous marriages, facts Bly was able to confirm. Another useful source for reporters was Robert Halliday, Paul Halliday's son. The Sullivan County Sheriff started a new round of speculation when he told the press that Lizzie was probably connected to the Jack the Ripper murders, although no connection was ever made. The revelation that she had been married five times before she wed Paul Halliday, that two of her husbands died less than a year after their weddings, and that Lizzie had tried to poison a third led the press to speculate that she was responsible for at least six deaths. "Whether these men died natural deaths or were murdered, is not known," The New York Times noted in June 1894. Lizzie also made a claim (confided to Robert Halliday) that she had killed a husband in Belfast, but had managed to conceal the crime. On June 21, 1894, Halliday was convicted at the Sullivan County Oyer and Terminer Court for the murder of Margaret McQuillan and Sarah Jane McQuillan. She became the first woman ever to be sentenced to death by electrocution, via New York State's new electric chair. Governor Roswell P. Flower, however, commuted her sentence to life in a mental institution after a medical commission declared her insane. Halliday was sent to the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane where she spent remainder of her life. Lizzie was known for many years in the press as “the worst woman on earth," because she killed those who loved her. While institutionalized, in 1895, she attempted to murder attendant Catherine Ward, by strangulation. then, in 1906 she killed a nurse, Nellie Wickes, by stabbing her 200 times with a pair of scissors. By all accounts, Ward and Wickes were the only two women in the hosoital who had pitied and befriended her. Halliday died on June 18, 1918. #destroytheday

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