On a crisp September evening in 1899, a seventeen-year-old petty thief named Edwin Ray Snow shot and killed a bakery deliveryman named Jimmy Whittemore outside Yarmouth. The gunshots rang out for only a moment, but the effects resounded on Cape Cod for half a century. The idyllic atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Cape Cod was shattered in a flash. Soon after the crime, Snow pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree, and was the first person ever to be sentenced to death by electric chair in Massachusetts history. But his compelling story didn't end there, and his redemption--earned through ... Read More
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On a crisp September evening in 1899, a seventeen-year-old petty thief named Edwin Ray Snow shot and killed a bakery deliveryman named Jimmy Whittemore outside Yarmouth. The gunshots rang out for only a moment, but the effects resounded on Cape Cod for half a century. The idyllic atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Cape Cod was shattered in a flash. Soon after the crime, Snow pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree, and was the first person ever to be sentenced to death by electric chair in Massachusetts history. But his compelling story didn't end there, and his redemption--earned through ... Read More
On a crisp September evening in 1899, a seventeen-year-old petty thief named Edwin Ray Snow shot and killed a bakery deliveryman named Jimmy Whittemore outside Yarmouth. The gunshots rang out for only a moment, but the effects resounded on Cape Cod for half a century. The idyllic atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Cape Cod was shattered in a flash. Soon after the crime, Snow pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree, and was the first person ever to be sentenced to death by electric chair in Massachusetts history. But his compelling story didn't end there, and his redemption--earned through decades of hard time--was as dramatic and uplifting as his crime was heinous. Drawing upon town records, historical documents, correspondence and newspapers of the day, The Cape Cod Murder of 1899 recreates the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth at the turn of the century and examines the details of a murder that shook Cape Cod to its core.
Details
Pages: 112
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Imprint: The History Press
Series: True Crime
Publication Date: 1st April 2007
State: Massachusetts
Illustration Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9781596292277
Format: Paperback
BISACs: TRUE CRIME / Murder / General PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
Author Bio
Journalist, author and historian Theresa M. Barbo is the author of six books of historical non-fiction published by The History Press. Barbo is a noted public speaker throughout New England and a former award-winning broadcast journalist and news magazine history editor. She is also a former executive in the non-profit sector. Captain W. Russell Webster retired in 2003 after 26 years of Coast Guard service. He served as Group Woods Hole rescue commander from 1998 to 2001. He also served as the Coast Guard's regional operations officer for the September 11 terrorist attack responses. In 2008, he became FEMA's first New England Federal Preparedness Coordinator. Julia Marshall is an artist and illustrator living in New Orleans. She holds a BFA in Illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design. Learn more about Julia at JMarStudio.com.
On a crisp September evening in 1899, a seventeen-year-old petty thief named Edwin Ray Snow shot and killed a bakery deliveryman named Jimmy Whittemore outside Yarmouth. The gunshots rang out for only a moment, but the effects resounded on Cape Cod for half a century. The idyllic atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Cape Cod was shattered in a flash. Soon after the crime, Snow pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree, and was the first person ever to be sentenced to death by electric chair in Massachusetts history. But his compelling story didn't end there, and his redemption--earned through decades of hard time--was as dramatic and uplifting as his crime was heinous. Drawing upon town records, historical documents, correspondence and newspapers of the day, The Cape Cod Murder of 1899 recreates the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth at the turn of the century and examines the details of a murder that shook Cape Cod to its core.
Pages: 112
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Imprint: The History Press
Series: True Crime
Publication Date: 1st April 2007
State: Massachusetts
Illustrations Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9781596292277
Format: Paperback
BISACs: TRUE CRIME / Murder / General PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
Journalist, author and historian Theresa M. Barbo is the author of six books of historical non-fiction published by The History Press. Barbo is a noted public speaker throughout New England and a former award-winning broadcast journalist and news magazine history editor. She is also a former executive in the non-profit sector. Captain W. Russell Webster retired in 2003 after 26 years of Coast Guard service. He served as Group Woods Hole rescue commander from 1998 to 2001. He also served as the Coast Guard's regional operations officer for the September 11 terrorist attack responses. In 2008, he became FEMA's first New England Federal Preparedness Coordinator. Julia Marshall is an artist and illustrator living in New Orleans. She holds a BFA in Illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design. Learn more about Julia at JMarStudio.com.
