Married 16 December 1891
in Bristol, Ontario County, New York.
Ontario County Journal
Camadaigua, Ontario County, New York.
December 25, 1891
MARRIED - At the M. E. parsonage, Bristol Center, December 16, by Rev. Thomas Kerr, Galen Plimpton of West Bloomfield and Edith Greenman of South Bristol.
[Notrion: Bristol center is a small crossroads within the township of Bristol, Ontario County, New York.]
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Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
April 15, 1892
Another Tragedy in Ontario County has been added to the long list recorded in the past few years. Saturday last at noon the 16 year old wife of Galen Plimpton of East Bloomfield was found dead in her room from a pistol shot. The discovery was first made and reported by her husband, who is twelve years her senior. They had been married about three months. It is generally known that their brief married life had not been a happy one. Plimpton it seems was intensely jealous of his young wife, and evidently without cause. He had accused her of unfaithfulness, and she took the accusation so deeply to heart as to move her to self-destruction. Nevertheless at first Plimpton was suspected of committing the deed, and was placed under arrest and lodged in Canandaigua jail. The finding of a brief letter written by the deceased would seem to establish the fact of suicide, and free the husband of responsibility for the deed other than unjust accusation. The letter reads:
"I have been true. God knows that I have been true. Be sure that I am dead before you bury me."
A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle gives the following further particulars:
When Mrs. Plimpton was found she was lying on her face with her left hand under her and her right rested on her back. Her dress was opened and turned back and her right hand was slightly burned by powder. The body was lying at the foot of the bed and the revolver at the head. Plimpton is about five feet six inches in height, with a smoothly shaven face, which bears the marks of dissipation. He is in the murderer's cage in jail, which during the last three years has contained John K. (ink mark), the murderer of Helen O'Shea, of Geneva; Frank Fish, who killed Jack Cullinan, of Canandaigua; Frank L. Lamont, the slayer of Frederick Leach, of Canadice; and Daniel Cameron, who killed Patrick Welch, near Geneva.
The coroner's jury rendered a verdict in this case last Wednesday. The jury finds that Plimpton and his wife did not live happily together, by reason of his unfounded jealousy and abuse and cruelty to her; but are unable to say whether the deceased killed herself, or was killed by her husband or by some person to the jury unknown, but recommend that Plimpton be held to wait the action of the grand jury. He had been released but was again placed under arrest. Another note has been found written by the deceased in which she says:
"Darling Gale -- When you receive this I will be where you cannot continue to torture me. God knows I have been true to you."
Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
May 20, 1892
No indictment was found by the late grand jury against Galen Plimpton, of West Bloomfield, held on a charge of murdering his young wife and he has been discharged from custody. The theory seems to be generally accepted that the deceased committed suicide.
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in Bristol, Ontario County, New York.
Ontario County Journal
Camadaigua, Ontario County, New York.
December 25, 1891
MARRIED - At the M. E. parsonage, Bristol Center, December 16, by Rev. Thomas Kerr, Galen Plimpton of West Bloomfield and Edith Greenman of South Bristol.
[Notrion: Bristol center is a small crossroads within the township of Bristol, Ontario County, New York.]
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Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
April 15, 1892
Another Tragedy in Ontario County has been added to the long list recorded in the past few years. Saturday last at noon the 16 year old wife of Galen Plimpton of East Bloomfield was found dead in her room from a pistol shot. The discovery was first made and reported by her husband, who is twelve years her senior. They had been married about three months. It is generally known that their brief married life had not been a happy one. Plimpton it seems was intensely jealous of his young wife, and evidently without cause. He had accused her of unfaithfulness, and she took the accusation so deeply to heart as to move her to self-destruction. Nevertheless at first Plimpton was suspected of committing the deed, and was placed under arrest and lodged in Canandaigua jail. The finding of a brief letter written by the deceased would seem to establish the fact of suicide, and free the husband of responsibility for the deed other than unjust accusation. The letter reads:
"I have been true. God knows that I have been true. Be sure that I am dead before you bury me."
A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle gives the following further particulars:
When Mrs. Plimpton was found she was lying on her face with her left hand under her and her right rested on her back. Her dress was opened and turned back and her right hand was slightly burned by powder. The body was lying at the foot of the bed and the revolver at the head. Plimpton is about five feet six inches in height, with a smoothly shaven face, which bears the marks of dissipation. He is in the murderer's cage in jail, which during the last three years has contained John K. (ink mark), the murderer of Helen O'Shea, of Geneva; Frank Fish, who killed Jack Cullinan, of Canandaigua; Frank L. Lamont, the slayer of Frederick Leach, of Canadice; and Daniel Cameron, who killed Patrick Welch, near Geneva.
The coroner's jury rendered a verdict in this case last Wednesday. The jury finds that Plimpton and his wife did not live happily together, by reason of his unfounded jealousy and abuse and cruelty to her; but are unable to say whether the deceased killed herself, or was killed by her husband or by some person to the jury unknown, but recommend that Plimpton be held to wait the action of the grand jury. He had been released but was again placed under arrest. Another note has been found written by the deceased in which she says:
"Darling Gale -- When you receive this I will be where you cannot continue to torture me. God knows I have been true to you."
Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
May 20, 1892
No indictment was found by the late grand jury against Galen Plimpton, of West Bloomfield, held on a charge of murdering his young wife and he has been discharged from custody. The theory seems to be generally accepted that the deceased committed suicide.
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Married 16 December 1891
in Bristol, Ontario County, New York.
Ontario County Journal
Camadaigua, Ontario County, New York.
December 25, 1891
MARRIED - At the M. E. parsonage, Bristol Center, December 16, by Rev. Thomas Kerr, Galen Plimpton of West Bloomfield and Edith Greenman of South Bristol.
[Notrion: Bristol center is a small crossroads within the township of Bristol, Ontario County, New York.]
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Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
April 15, 1892
Another Tragedy in Ontario County has been added to the long list recorded in the past few years. Saturday last at noon the 16 year old wife of Galen Plimpton of East Bloomfield was found dead in her room from a pistol shot. The discovery was first made and reported by her husband, who is twelve years her senior. They had been married about three months. It is generally known that their brief married life had not been a happy one. Plimpton it seems was intensely jealous of his young wife, and evidently without cause. He had accused her of unfaithfulness, and she took the accusation so deeply to heart as to move her to self-destruction. Nevertheless at first Plimpton was suspected of committing the deed, and was placed under arrest and lodged in Canandaigua jail. The finding of a brief letter written by the deceased would seem to establish the fact of suicide, and free the husband of responsibility for the deed other than unjust accusation. The letter reads:
"I have been true. God knows that I have been true. Be sure that I am dead before you bury me."
A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle gives the following further particulars:
When Mrs. Plimpton was found she was lying on her face with her left hand under her and her right rested on her back. Her dress was opened and turned back and her right hand was slightly burned by powder. The body was lying at the foot of the bed and the revolver at the head. Plimpton is about five feet six inches in height, with a smoothly shaven face, which bears the marks of dissipation. He is in the murderer's cage in jail, which during the last three years has contained John K. (ink mark), the murderer of Helen O'Shea, of Geneva; Frank Fish, who killed Jack Cullinan, of Canandaigua; Frank L. Lamont, the slayer of Frederick Leach, of Canadice; and Daniel Cameron, who killed Patrick Welch, near Geneva.
The coroner's jury rendered a verdict in this case last Wednesday. The jury finds that Plimpton and his wife did not live happily together, by reason of his unfounded jealousy and abuse and cruelty to her; but are unable to say whether the deceased killed herself, or was killed by her husband or by some person to the jury unknown, but recommend that Plimpton be held to wait the action of the grand jury. He had been released but was again placed under arrest. Another note has been found written by the deceased in which she says:
"Darling Gale -- When you receive this I will be where you cannot continue to torture me. God knows I have been true to you."
Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
May 20, 1892
No indictment was found by the late grand jury against Galen Plimpton, of West Bloomfield, held on a charge of murdering his young wife and he has been discharged from custody. The theory seems to be generally accepted that the deceased committed suicide.
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in Bristol, Ontario County, New York.
Ontario County Journal
Camadaigua, Ontario County, New York.
December 25, 1891
MARRIED - At the M. E. parsonage, Bristol Center, December 16, by Rev. Thomas Kerr, Galen Plimpton of West Bloomfield and Edith Greenman of South Bristol.
[Notrion: Bristol center is a small crossroads within the township of Bristol, Ontario County, New York.]
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Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
April 15, 1892
Another Tragedy in Ontario County has been added to the long list recorded in the past few years. Saturday last at noon the 16 year old wife of Galen Plimpton of East Bloomfield was found dead in her room from a pistol shot. The discovery was first made and reported by her husband, who is twelve years her senior. They had been married about three months. It is generally known that their brief married life had not been a happy one. Plimpton it seems was intensely jealous of his young wife, and evidently without cause. He had accused her of unfaithfulness, and she took the accusation so deeply to heart as to move her to self-destruction. Nevertheless at first Plimpton was suspected of committing the deed, and was placed under arrest and lodged in Canandaigua jail. The finding of a brief letter written by the deceased would seem to establish the fact of suicide, and free the husband of responsibility for the deed other than unjust accusation. The letter reads:
"I have been true. God knows that I have been true. Be sure that I am dead before you bury me."
A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle gives the following further particulars:
When Mrs. Plimpton was found she was lying on her face with her left hand under her and her right rested on her back. Her dress was opened and turned back and her right hand was slightly burned by powder. The body was lying at the foot of the bed and the revolver at the head. Plimpton is about five feet six inches in height, with a smoothly shaven face, which bears the marks of dissipation. He is in the murderer's cage in jail, which during the last three years has contained John K. (ink mark), the murderer of Helen O'Shea, of Geneva; Frank Fish, who killed Jack Cullinan, of Canandaigua; Frank L. Lamont, the slayer of Frederick Leach, of Canadice; and Daniel Cameron, who killed Patrick Welch, near Geneva.
The coroner's jury rendered a verdict in this case last Wednesday. The jury finds that Plimpton and his wife did not live happily together, by reason of his unfounded jealousy and abuse and cruelty to her; but are unable to say whether the deceased killed herself, or was killed by her husband or by some person to the jury unknown, but recommend that Plimpton be held to wait the action of the grand jury. He had been released but was again placed under arrest. Another note has been found written by the deceased in which she says:
"Darling Gale -- When you receive this I will be where you cannot continue to torture me. God knows I have been true to you."
Geneva Gazette
Geneva, Ontario County, New York.
May 20, 1892
No indictment was found by the late grand jury against Galen Plimpton, of West Bloomfield, held on a charge of murdering his young wife and he has been discharged from custody. The theory seems to be generally accepted that the deceased committed suicide.
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