Articles from the November 3, 2017 edition

Nov 3, 2017

Lafayette from river By Finn J.D. John On November 11, 1887, a 28-year-old convicted murderer named Richard Marple stood on the scaffold in the town of Lafayette and shouted his defiance at the crowd below. “Murder!” he yelled, as the black hood was fitted over his head. “May God judge you all!” Marple had maintained his innocence until the bitter end. But his alibi story had changed several times, and he’d further damaged his credibility severely by claiming that the real killer of storekeeper David Corker twelve months before was the Yamhi...