Thought I'd pass along some news articles. I collected a lot doing the murders of Polly Frisch. Thought I would send some of those so you could follow how the story went, plus what ever else of interest showed up on the same page. Lots of local names in her saga! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Batavia, Genesee Co., NY) Republican Advocate Nov. 17, 1857 EXAMINATION OF A MOTHER CHARGED WITH POISONING HER CHILD. - Mr. Justice COWDIN has been for several days engaged in hearing evidence on the charge preferred against Mrs. FRISCH for administrating arsenic to her daughter Frances, in the month of August, 1856, by which she died. The child was then about five years old, and the parties all resided where Mrs. F now lives in Alabama, in this county. A large number of witnesses have all ready been examined, and the case is yet in progress. It of course, excited a good deal of interest, particularly in the neighborhood where the parties resided. The accused we understand is youthful, and not unprepossessing in appearance, and asserts her innocence of this, or any like offenses, and attributes the prosecution to local excitement and prejudice. We purposely refrain from expressing any opinion in the premises, or saying a word which might tend on the one hand to the injury of a woman charged with so grave and unnatural crime, or on the other to prevent the fullest and fairest inquiry into the real facts of the case. MR. BOWEN, the District Att'y, conducts the examination in behalf of the People, and Messrs. WAKEMAN & BRYAN appeared for the prisoner. *** RAIL ROAD ACCIDENT. -- A Brakeman named Peter WORTH, a German, on the Conhocton Rail Road, was severely injured, on the night of Thursday last. He was standing upon the platform of a car, and the sudden backing up of the engine jamed the (?)ender upon the platform of the car where he was standing, and crushed his ankles, and injured him in other ways. It is hoped he will recover, although badly injured. *** submitted by: Cindy Amrhein Town of Alabama Historian Genesee Co., NY ********************** Historian's Page - Alabama, NY http://www2.pcom.net/cinjod/historian/ Experience the town of Alabama in Genesee County, New York. History, tombstone inscriptions, census records, history of the Tonawanda Seneca Indians and the Iroquois. Enjoy a good murder mystery? Read about the murders of Polly Frisch. APHNYS (The Association of Public Historians of New York State) http://www.tier.net/aphnys/ Genesee County, NY website. Includes History Department, (under "Historian") http://www.co.genesee.ny.us/ The Genesee Area Genealogy Society lists the names and addresses for all the Genesee & Wyoming County Historians http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygags/hist.htm