Mary Frances Creighton, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Convicted murderess
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About Mary Frances Creighton
- Mary Frances Creighton (July 29, 1899 – July 16, 1936), was a housewife, who along with Everett Applegate, a 36-year-old former American Legion official, was executed in Sing Sing Prison's electric chair, Old Sparky, for the poisoning of Applegate's wife, Ada, in Baldwin, New York on September 27, 1935.
- She had passed out before the execution, and was executed in an unconscious state.While living in Newark, New Jersey, Creighton was also suspected of poisoning her mother in-law, Anna Creighton, in 1920, her father in-law, Walter Creighton, in 1921, and her younger brother, Raymond Avery, in 1923.
- Creighton and her husband, John, were tried for Raymond's death in 1923, but were acquitted due to a lack of witnesses.
- The Anna Creighton murder trial, which was held in 1923 as well, also ended with Creighton being acquitted, again due to a lack of witnesses, and also due to the testimony of toxicologist Alexander Gettler, who found only a trace amount of arsenic in Anna Creighton's system.After her arrest for the murder of Ada Applegate, who she claimed to have poisoned so that her fifteen-year-old daughter who she had been pimping out to Mr.
- Applegate could legally marry, Creighton repeatedly confessed to and denied killing both Anna and Raymond.
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