Friday Dec 01, 2023
ABC#057: Murder Most Foul, Part 1
There are hundreds of people buried at Laurel Hill East and Laurel Hill West who were the victims of personal violence – accidental, intentional, and self-inflicted. This month’s episode tells you of nine people who were killed by others.
- Author / historian Thomas Keels will read you a chapter from his book Wicked Philadelphia that tells the amazing story of Singleton Mercer and Mahlon Hutchinson Heberton.
I will tell you of
- Mine supervisor George K. Smith who was purportedly killed by the Irish terrorist group the Molly Maguires
- Businessman George Haas, shot and killed on his lunch break by a disgruntled former employee
- Archibald McCurdy, night watchman in his brothers’ store who was killed when he discovered a burglary in process
- Ida Chadwick, a 9-year-old girl whose depressed father killed them both with illuminating gas
- C. Morgan Knight, Chestnut Hill financier and amateur yachtsman who died while attempting to capture a robber at Wanamaker’s.
There is also a new voice for you. Volunteer guide Sarah Hamill gives a sketch of a young mother and her two daughters who were shot to death by their disgruntled butler.
Murder Most Foul, Part 1 is the topic of the December 2023 episode of “All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories.
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