The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-05
MURDERER
Of FIFTEEN
MUST q! e!s; !;
Dr.. Olivor c. Haugh, Ohio Blue
beard, to Expiate His Many
Crimes on Saturday.
DEATH IN ELECTRIC
CHAIR HIS FATE
Robbed. Drugged and Ravished
Many Helpless Women Ac-
cordins to Police.
DEATH IN ELECTRIC
CHAIR HIS FATE

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Columbus, o., April 5.-Convicted of
killing three members of his family,
charged by the police with having
caused the death of at least a dozen
women patients whom he robbed and
ravished before taking their lives, DR..
Oliver Crook Haugh, Ohio's Bluebeard,
will die In the electric chair at the
state prison tomorrow. AS one of the
arch assassins of the age, his name
will go down in criminal annals along
side of those of Holmes and Johann
Hoch.
A few years ago DR.. Haugh was one
of the most popular practitioners of
Dayton. The habitual use of drugs eff
fected his physical, mental and moral
ruin. Deserted by his wife, scorned
by his former friends, he lapsed into
the lowest stages of bestiality From
that time forth the story OF his GRIM
inal exploits reads like a page from
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. HYDE" Women
patients died mysteriously, apparently
without cause and under suspicious
circumstances. The police now be-
lieve they were poisoned. At intervals
DR.. Haugh disappeared from his ac-
customed haunts. Strangely coinci-
dent with these trips of the doctor
were crimes against women, some of
whom were murdered, in Cincinnati
and other Ohio cities. If. DR.. Haugh
was the guilty man he covered his
tracks with great cunning and suffi-
cient evidence could not be secured
to warrant his arrest.
The crime for which DR.. Haugh will
be electOcuted tomorrow was commit
ted on November 5, 1905. At that time
he had retired to the farm house of his
parents, eight miles from Dayton, and
was living of the earnings of his ia
ther and brother. Late at night Dr.
Haugh appeared at the farm house of
neighbor, weeping hysterically and
crying for help. He was scantily
clothed and badly burned, and between
his sObs declared that the house was
on fire and that his father, mother and
brother, Jesse, were unable to escape.
A rescue party was quickly formed,
but the victims were dead when
dragged from the blazing building. DR..
Haugh was taken to a Dayton hospital
to be treated for his injuries. Upon
his recovery he was arrested, charged
with the murder of his three relatives.
At the trial 1t was shown that the
three victims had been drugged and
their clothing saturated with kerosene.
1t was also shown that their lives were
insured and that the farm property
would pass to DR.. Haugh upon their
death. DR.. Haugh was known to have
been penniless and unable to purchase
the drugs which had brought him to
the level OF an assassin and which
his appetite still craved. Witnesses
testified that a few days prior to the
crime DR.. Haugh had purchased con-
siderable quantity of hyocine and the
post mortem Investigation resulted in
the discovery that this poison had been
administered to the victims. All cir
cumstances pointed to the guilt uf
DR.. Haugh and he was convicted of
murder in the first degree. The deci-
sion of the lower courts was recently
sustained by the supreme court.
Later an attempt was made to have
Haugh adjudged insane. He played
we'll the part of madman, but on sew
eral occasions, when he thought no
one was watching, was caught off his
guard.
Among the women whom the Dayton
police believe were murdered by Haugh
are the following:
May Mcdonald, young Cincinnati
girl, who died under mysterious cir
cumstances.
Mrs. Della Patterson of Chicago,
who lived with Haugh for some time
in Wisconsin.
Mrs. Mary Twoney, who died at Lo-
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