Mary Runkle

To Mary Runkle went the questionable distinction of being the only
woman ever executed in Oneida County. she was convicted of strangling
her husband in Utica and was suspected of drowning her two children in
Montgomery County. Convicted, in 1847 she was hanged in the Whitesboro
jail. To spare her the sight of the gallows, a hole was cut in the
upstairs floor and the rope passed down to the office below. She was
hanged while sitting in a chair.

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