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RAE ETHELYN's Uncle saves innocent man 10 min from electrocution

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JARVIS---Chicago (Delighted)

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Date Posted: Mon, August 29 2022, 9:30:10

I was searching for an "official" birth record for RAE but was only able to find a newspaper announcement confirming her birth information. She was ANM's LEON JANNEY's first cousin as they had grandparents A.L. & ROSA KOHN in common.
Her Uncle, STUART KOHN was a commercial lawyer in NYC and told a close criminal lawyer friend that he would give him help if he came across a criminal conviction of someone who was poor and friendless and needed help for an appeal. (Sounds like "BOSTON BLACKIE").
CHARLES STIELOW was a poor, mentally challenged farmhand in rural Upstate NY convicted of murdering his wealthy employer and his housekeeper with a pistol in a robbery.
He was convicted and sentenced to death in the electric chair
in Sing Sing. The case went thru the normal court process and the sentence was upheld and a date for execution set.
While on death row, the murderers there became convinced that STIELOW was innocent: "it takes one to know one".
They convinced the warden that they may be right. He mentioned it to Uncle STUART's criminal lawyer friend and started a re-examination.

The story is so fantastic that it sounds like a TV crime show or B&W "B" movie.

There's an evil private detective who forces a confession and lies about it to police.
There's a secretly recorded admission by the detective by using a ruse.
There's a fake forensic firearms "expert".
There's another jailed criminal who confesses to the murders and then recants.
There's a NY Governor who won't believe new evidence.
There's an innocent man with trousers slit, head shaved and electric chair ready to go saying goodbye to his wife and kids.
There's RAE's Uncle speeding 27 miles with papers to delay the execution with just minutes to spare.
There's the "town without pity" that won't believe STIELOW is innocent even after he's pardoned as innocent.

Here are free links to the 1918 NY newspaper story and a 1932
re-examination. You can Google CHARLES BIGELOW trial for more sources.

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/dlc_allen_ver01/data/sn83030214/00206532269/1918051201/0270.pdf

http://vots.altervista.org/CTI/39Stielow.html

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Re: RAE ETHELYN's Uncle saves innocent man 10 min from electrocution	Lord (interesting)	Mon, August 29 2022, 10:22:44