Expert On Last Woman Hanged
Speaks In Richfield Springs At 7
RICHFIELD SPRINGS – The Richfield Springs Historic Association will present a program on the The Druse Murder by Howard Greiner, author of “The Last Woman Hanged,” at 7 p.m. this evening at the museum on West Main Street. All are welcome.
Greiner will recount the murder of William Druse of the Town of Warren by his wife Roxalana in a most unusual manner.
Three years later she was the last woman hanged in New York State – behind the Herkimer County Jail – and her botched execution was instrumental in replacing the gallows with the “more humane” electric chair.