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Inside the Ohio Penetentiary

Explore one of history’s most notorious maximum-security prisons through these tales of mayhem and madness.

As “animal factories” go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and mobsters. Peer in on America’s first vampire, accused of sucking his victims’ blood five years before Bram Stoker’s fictional villain was even born; peek into the cage of the original Prison Demon; and witness the daring escape of John Hunt Morgan’s band of Confederate prisoners.
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Inside the Ohio Penetentiary

Explore one of history’s most notorious maximum-security prisons through these tales of mayhem and madness.

As “animal factories” go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and mobsters. Peer in on America’s first vampire, accused of sucking his victims’ blood five years before Bram Stoker’s fictional villain was even born; peek into the cage of the original Prison Demon; and witness the daring escape of John Hunt Morgan’s band of Confederate prisoners.
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Inside the Ohio Penetentiary

Inside the Ohio Penetentiary

Inside the Ohio Penetentiary
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Inside the Ohio Penetentiary

Overview

Explore one of history’s most notorious maximum-security prisons through these tales of mayhem and madness.

As “animal factories” go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and mobsters. Peer in on America’s first vampire, accused of sucking his victims’ blood five years before Bram Stoker’s fictional villain was even born; peek into the cage of the original Prison Demon; and witness the daring escape of John Hunt Morgan’s band of Confederate prisoners.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781625845504
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 05/10/2022
Series: Landmarks
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 195
Sales rank: 780,565
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

David Meyers was a writer, editor and artist for Columbus Alive, and a regular columnist for Senior Times. Meyers is coauthor of Look to Lazarus and Ohio Jazz. Elise Meyers Walker has a degree in art history from Hofstra University. She has worked as a freelance writer and photographer, and is coauthor of Look to Lazarus and Historic Columbus Crimes. A native of Wapakoneta, Ohio, James Dailey II graduated from the School of Advertising Art in Dayton, Ohio. He is curator of The Dailey Archives, an important assembly of artifacts, early photography and ephemera. It also comprises the largest privately held collection of Ohio prison memorabilia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 9

1 "The Year Clark Was Hung" 11

2 The Greatest Escape 17

3 America's First Vampire 24

4 The Original Prison Demon 35

5 The Courtship of Daisy Sprague 46

6 The Birdman of the Ohio Penitentiary 54

7 The Frankenstein Myth 61

8 Women in Prison 71

9 The Warden's Pet 82

10 To What Red Hell 90

11 Handsome Harry and Fat Charlie 103

12 Friends in Low Places 115

13 The Halloween Riot 123

14 Dr. Sam's Magic Blood 133

15 The Summer of Our Discontent 140

16 The Rogues' Gallery 151

Notes 163

Index 179

About the Authors 189

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