Crimes in North Country History


  Clinton Prison, 1894

This section presents information on crime in 19th Century Clinton County, taken from contemporaneous records and newspaper articles.  If you have old newspaper articles, letters, or other documents about local crime during the 1800's, we would be happy to add them to this section.

  Public Executions

  People v Peggy Facto - 1825

  People v Chapleau - 1889

  19th Century Crimes

  Owen O'Neil - 1874 - Murder Victim?

  Clinton Prison

    More 19th Century Crime:


  Famous American Trials Link

  New York Correction History Society
(This is how and where the original North Country Criminal Justice History site's link
to the NYCHS home page first appeared. We proudly preserve it that way as a link back
to the start of our continuing connection.)