People v. Creighton

Crane, Ch. J.

The defendants Frances Q. Creighton and Everett C. Appelgate were indicted and convicted for murder in the first degree for having killed Ada Appel-gate, the wife of the defendant Appelgate, on the 27th day of September, 1935, at 12 Bryant place, Baldwin, in the county of Nassau. The death was caused by arsenic poisoning. Before stating, the occurrences on the fatal day it may be well to see who these people are and under what conditions they had been living.

Frances Q. Creighton and her husband John Creighton had been living for some time in a one-story and attic bungalow at 12…