1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Hey, everyone. Technically you're getting two days in history today 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: because we're running two episodes from the History Vault. I 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: hope you enjoy. Hi. I'm Eves, and welcome to this 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: Day in History Class, a show that uncovers history one 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: day at a time. The day was April nineteenth, nineteen 6 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: o seven. The power went out at the Columbus, Ohio Penitentiary, 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: where Dr. Oliver Crook Hall was being imprisoned. About twenty 8 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: minutes after the blackout began, just after midnight, Hall was 9 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: executed by electric chair. An article in the day's issue 10 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: of the Los Angeles Harold said the following Hall manifested 11 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: an apparent indifference to his fate until the last All 12 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: visitors were excluded from the annex at the penitentiary today, 13 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: and Hall has seen no one aside from the prison 14 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: officials except Father Kelly, his spiritual advisor. As a young adult, 15 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: Oliver worked in a drug store in Ohio. He began 16 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: using a drug called Cocaine toothache drops to treat his 17 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,199 Speaker 1: tooth pain, and he started mixing his own treatments based 18 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: on recipes he got from pamphlets for pharmacists. One of 19 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: those treatments was a medicine that contained opium, an addictive 20 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: narcotic derived from the opium poppy. A doctor noticed how 21 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: good he was at mixing medicines and suggested he go 22 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: to college to study medicine, and he did just that 23 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,559 Speaker 1: when he started attending Cincinnati Medical College in eighteen eighty eight, 24 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: but his attendance wasn't great. Finding money for his tuition 25 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 1: was a struggle for his family, and he was still 26 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: using drugs. Ha had fallen in love with Anna, Margaret Eckley, 27 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: so he moved in with her family, citing his need 28 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: to save money for college. But something seemed sketchy when 29 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: Anna's father, William, died in February eight ninety one of 30 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: pulmonary apoplexy. Since Williams seemed healthy up until that point, 31 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: William was not fond of Oliver, so his death freed 32 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: up William to marry Anna and use William's life insurance 33 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: payout to go back to school. It's not clear that 34 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: he had anything to do with William's death, but he 35 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: definitely took advantage of William's passing. By he had graduated 36 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: from medical college and open to practice in Dayton, Ohio. 37 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: The next decade or so of his life is full 38 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: of a bunch of crimes and suspicious events. Influenced by 39 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He thought he could make 40 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: a drug to create a new race of beings where 41 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: two could share a single body, but he was experimenting 42 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: on himself and ordering a ton of cocaine and morphine. 43 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: Anna said he assaulted her and filed for divorce, but 44 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: she ended up staying with him when she found out 45 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,679 Speaker 1: she was pregnant. Ha had become violent and he was 46 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: soon declared insane. He spent time in asylums, and many 47 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: of his patients at his practices were hurt or died, 48 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: including one in Wisconsin who died for morphine poisoning, which 49 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: resulted in Haw's arrest and subsequent acquittal. He opened and 50 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: closed several practices as his negligence was exposed and his 51 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 1: reputation suffered. He even admitted the killing women while performing abortions. 52 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: Anna had another child with Oliver. He ran off and 53 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: married other women while still married to Anna, the whole time. 54 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: Oliver was embroiled in his addiction. On September twenty nine, 55 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: o five, Anna filed for divorce and Haw attempted suicide, 56 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: so his life was a turbulent one, to say the least. 57 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: Doctor Hall had never cared much for his family, but 58 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: when he got the news that he was no longer 59 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: in his parents will and that his brother Jesse would 60 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: get everything, he was enraged, saying he would kill his 61 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: whole family. In November of nineteen o five, Oliver alerted 62 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: a neighbor that his parents house was on fire. During 63 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: the chaos, he changed his story about knowing his family 64 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: was inside, from saying they weren't to saying they were. 65 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 1: His mother, father, and brother died in the blaze. After 66 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: questioning by county coroner Dr. Walter Klein, Haw was arrested 67 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: on three charges of first degree murder. While Hall was 68 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: in jail, people began coming forward with their suspicions that 69 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: he killed people they knew. Klein's corner report said that 70 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: the Haw family had overdosed on high scene hydrobromide, a 71 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: drug Oliver had been given previously in an asylum. Haw's 72 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: case went to a grand jury, for which twelve men 73 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: were selected. More than fifty witnesses were called for testimony. 74 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: The prosecution pointed out how easy it should have been 75 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: to escape the Maall house during a fire, how Ha 76 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: had bought a bunch of oil in hyaceine before the 77 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 1: fire happened, and how it did not look like the 78 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: family had been sleeping when the fire started like Oliver claimed. 79 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: The defense said that it would not have been so 80 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: easy to escape the house and that all the evidence 81 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: presented was only circumstantial. After a ten day trial, doctor 82 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: Hall was found guilty of drugging his mom and setting 83 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: her body on fire. He was granted a sanity inquest 84 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: on April nineteen o six, but the jury ruled that 85 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: he was saying. Ha was sentenced to death by electric chair, 86 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: and on April nineteen nineteen he was executed. It's not 87 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: known how many people he murdered. I'm each deathcote and 88 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: hopefully you know a little more about history today than 89 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: you did yesterday. If you'd like to learn more about 90 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 1: Oliver Hall, listened to the two part episode of Stuff 91 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: You Missed in History Class titled Oliver Haw Serial Kill 92 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: or if you haven't gotten your fill of history after 93 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: listening to today's episode, You can follow us on Twitter, Instagram, 94 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: and Facebook at T d I h C Podcast. Thank 95 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: you so much for listening, and I hope to see 96 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: you again tomorrow. For more tidbits of history. Hello everyone, 97 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 1: I'm Eves and welcome to This Day in History Class, 98 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: a podcast that proves history is made every day. The 99 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: day was April nineteenth, eighteen sixty one. A riot broke 100 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 1: out in Baltimore, Maryland, between Confederate sympathizers and state militia 101 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: regiments on their way to Washington, d C. To protect 102 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: the capital. Just a week before the Baltimore riot, the 103 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: Civil War had begun when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter 104 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: on December twentieth, eighteen sixty South Carolina became the first 105 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: state to secede from the Union. By February of eighteen 106 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: sixty one, seven southern states had succeeded from the Union. 107 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: The nation was on the verge of a civil war. 108 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: That civil war broke out on April twelfth, eighteen sixty one, 109 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: when Confederate batteries under General P. G. T. Beauregard open 110 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. After Union 111 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: troops refused to evacuate the fort by the next day, 112 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: US Major Robert Anderson agreed to surrender the fort, and 113 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: on the fourteenth, Anderson and his Union soldiers evacuated Fort Sumter. 114 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: On April fifteenth, President Abraham Lincoln issued a public proclamation 115 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: calling for seventy five thousand militia volunteers to suppress the rebellion. 116 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: In the proclamation, he said the following, I appealed to 117 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort 118 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of 119 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: our national Union, and the perpetuity of popular government, and 120 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: to redress wrongs already long enough endured. Northern states responded 121 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: enthusiastically to the call. Within days, a regiment of Massachusetts 122 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,559 Speaker 1: volunteers were on the way to Washington, d c. Which 123 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: was a target for the Confederates. Meanwhile, Virginia seceded from 124 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: the Union on April seventeenth, eighteen sixty one. The most 125 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: efficient way to transport large numbers of Union forces was 126 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,359 Speaker 1: by rail, and the route to Washington passed through Baltimore. 127 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: Maryland was a border state, which were slave states that 128 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 1: did not secede from the Union or joined the Confederacy, 129 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,959 Speaker 1: and it had both southern and northern influences. Many people 130 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: in Maryland opposed seceeding, but many also believed that it 131 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: was a state's right to choose to secede. Baltimore was 132 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: home to a lot of Southern and secessionist sympathizers. Baltimore 133 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: Mayor George W. Brown wrote a letter to President Lincoln 134 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: saying that people were tired of the passage of troops 135 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: through the city and that quote, it is not possible 136 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: for more soldiers to pass through Baltimore unless they fight 137 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: their way at every step. On April nineteenth, eighteen sixty one, 138 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: the sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia arrived at the President 139 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: Street station in Baltimore, where they had to change trains 140 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: to continue on their journey to Washington. Because city laws 141 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: prohibited locomotives from passing through busy thoroughfares, horses had to 142 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,599 Speaker 1: pull the rail cars across town along Pratt Street to 143 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: Camden Station. As the sixth Massachusetts Militia made this transfer, 144 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:53,079 Speaker 1: pro Confederate bystanders turned hostile and formed a mob. Since 145 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: the crowd blocked the tracks to keep some of the 146 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: cars from getting to Camden Station, more than two hundred 147 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: of the soldiers had to march there. Soon, rioting broke 148 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: out between the local Confederate sympathizers and the troops rioters 149 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: threw bricks at the soldiers, and the two sides traded gunfire. 150 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: With the help of Police Marshal George Proctor Kane and 151 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: dozens of police officers, the troops managed to make it 152 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: to Camden Station and board a train to Washington. The 153 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: fighting lasted for less than an hour, but four soldiers 154 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: and twelve civilians were killed in the riot. In the 155 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: weeks after the conflict, Union troops were sent to Maryland 156 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: and martial law was declared in Baltimore. Confederate sympathizers and 157 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: people who opposed the Civil War were arrested. By June, 158 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: a total of eleven states has succeeded from the Union, 159 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: though Maryland was not one of them. The Civil War 160 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:51,719 Speaker 1: would continue for the next four years. I'm Eve Jeffcote 161 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: and hopefully you know a little more about history today 162 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: than you did yesterday. 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