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Frederick Lincoln Small
Born
1866
Portland, Maine, U.S.
Died
January 15, 1918 (aged 51/52)
New Hampshire State Prison, Concord, New Hampshire, U.S.
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Conviction(s)
First degree murder
Criminal penalty
Death (January 15, 1918)
Details
Victims
Florence Small
Span of crimes
September 28, 1916 –
Florence Small
Born
March 15, 1879
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died
Sept 28, 1916 (aged 37)
Ossipee, New Hampshire, U.S.
Frederick Lincoln Small (1866 – January 15, 1918) was the convicted murderer of his wife, Florence Aileen Curry Small, in New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Small took out a joint life insurance policy of US$20,000 on March 16, 1916, from the John Hancock Company of Boston. The policy was written that the other spouse would collect if one spouse died. Mr. Small was 49 and Mrs. Small was 37 years old. One premium of $1,107.60 was paid before the incident.[1] Mr. Small had two previous mysterious fires before the one that claimed the life of his third wife Florence.
Her body was found in the ruins of her burnt Ossipee Lake two-story cottage on September 28, 1916. Mr. Small had been at the cottage that evening, but was traveling back to Boston when the body was found. Mrs. Small's skull was crushed and also had a cord wrapped around her neck. She had also been shot, and there was evidence she had been chloroformed. The body would have been destroyed by the fire except for the fact that the fire had compromised the floor of the cottage. The body was found floating in the flooded basement.
At first the alibi of being in Boston was a good one, until investigators discovered an alarm clock, spark plug, fire screen, clock spring and some hairpins to make a timed arson device. Mr. Small was known to be a tinkerer who enjoyed mechanical projects. A local grocer reported that he delivered five gallons of kerosene to the Smalls' cottage just before the fire.[2]
^"WIFE DEAD IN FIRE, F.L. SMALL ARRESTED; Body in Cottage Ruins at Lake Ossipee, N.H., Has a Noose Around the Neck. HUSBAND WAS IN BOSTON Gained Notoriety in 1909 on Suing A.H. Soden for Loss of His Second Wife's Love". New York Times. September 30, 1916. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
^"Frederick Small Commits the Imperfect Murder of 1916". New England Historical Society. 5 October 2015.
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