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Alonzo J. Whiteman

Alonzo J. Whiteman, ca. 1881.

Whiteman, Alonzo J. (1860–1921)

In Minnesota’s roster of heirs gone bad, Duluth’s Alonzo J. Whiteman ranks high. He followed a youth of wealth, privilege, and education with a young adulthood of dazzling attainment, then decades of crime.

Malchow, Charles W. (1864–1917)

In 1904, Charles W. Malchow was a professor of medicine at Hamline University Medical School who had studied abroad in Germany and England. He had a happy marriage, a medical practice in downtown Minneapolis, and a house near Lake of the Isles. He was young, handsome, successful, and ambitious. Then he went to prison.

Stillwater State Prison

Stillwater State Prison as it appeared in 1907, when Charles Malchow and Olly Burton were both inmates. Photograph by John Runk Jr.

Judge William Lochren

Judge William Lochren, ca. 1890s. Lochren presided over the trial of Charles Malchow and Olly Burton in 1904.

People's Pilgrimage, 1937

More than 1,000 left-wing protesters gathered at the Minnesota Capitol. on April 4, 1937, to support Governor Elmer Benson as he tried to persuade the legislature to pass a $17 million aid package for the unemployed. About 200 of the protesters stayed overnight in the senate chamber after someone jimmied open the doors with a knife, and two organizers were later convicted of the gross misdemeanor of preventing senators from assembling.

MN90: The Price of Murder

In this episode of MN90, Britt Aamodt investigates the case of a Minneapolis man accused of murdering his third wife by pushing her off a cliff.

Jurors inspecting the site of Mary Fridley Price's death

Jurors in the trial of Fred Price for the murder of his wife, Mary Fridley Price, inspect the site of Fridley Price's death. From "Price Trial Defendant and Jury at Scene of the Tragedy," Minneapolis Morning Tribune, January 7, 1916, 1. Image reproduced from microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Carrie Olson Price

Carrie Olson Price, fourth wife of Fred Price, visits her husband in jail after his conviction for the murder of his third wife, Mary Fridley Price. From "Etchison Ready to Stand Trial; Price Plans to Appeal," Minneapolis Sunday Journal, January 16, 1916, 4. Image reproduced from microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society.

Fred Price

Fred Price during his trial for the murder of his wife, Mary Fridley Price, in 1916. From "Unfriendly Kinfolk Cooked Wife-Slayer's Goose," Minneapolis Morning Tribune, November 28, 1954, 42. Image reproduced from microfilm at the Minnesota Historical Society.

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