Thursday, July 16, 2009

DASTARDLY DADS FROM THE ARCHIVES (Poughkeepsie, New York - 1921)

Father NATHANIEL INGRAHAM is arrested in the murder of his 6-year-old daughter.

From the archives of the New York Times, March 1, 1921.

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2009/07/16/98421_gold-coast-news.html

ACCUSE FATHER OF MURDER.

Poughkeepsie Authorities Charge Him With Strangling Child.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., Feb. 28.--Nathaniel Ingraham, 24, of East Park was arrested by County authorities here late today on the charge of murdering his six-year-old daughter, Beatrice.

An autopsy performed by Coroner John A. Card showed that the child had been strangled after having been brutally beaten.