Charged With The Heinous Crime Of Voting While Female
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Featuring Emily Simer Braun as Susan B. Anthony
Episode 173 explores the prosecution of one of the most hideous crimes in American history, trying to sway an election by voting. By a woman! Just kidding. The real crime here is the way the judge handed down the decision. Listen, and tell me if you agree.
Theme Music by Dave Sams and Rachel Schott, engineered by David Hisch at Third Street Music. “Sound Off” by John Philip Sousa, performed by the United States Marine Corps Band
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| 0:00.0 | Popular |
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| 0:03.5 | Rochester, New York, November 5th, 1872. |
| 0:40.1 | Dear Mrs. Stanton, well, I have been and gone and done it, positively voted this Republican ticket straight this a.m. at 7 o'clock and swore my vote in at that. |
| 0:47.5 | Was registered on Friday, and 15 other women followed suit in this ward. Then on Sunday, others some 20 or 30 other women tried to register, but all save two were refused. All my three sisters voted. |
| 0:57.1 | Rhoda de Garmo, too. Amy Post was rejected, and she will immediately bring action for that, |
| 1:03.9 | similar to the Washington action. And Honorable Henry R. Selden will be our counsel. |
| 1:10.4 | He has read up the law and all of our arguments, |
| 1:13.8 | and is satisfied that we are right, |
| 1:16.2 | and ditto the old Judge Selden, his elder brother, |
| 1:20.2 | so we are in for a fine agitation in Rochester on the question. |
| 1:25.5 | I hope the morning's telegrams will tell of many women all over the |
| 1:29.6 | country trying to vote. It is splendid that without any concert of action, so many should have |
| 1:36.9 | moved here so impromptu. Haven't we wedged ourselves into the work pretty fairly and fully, |
| 1:44.0 | and now that the Republicans have |
| 1:45.6 | taken our votes, for it is the Republican members of the board, the Democratic paper is out |
| 1:51.1 | against us strong, and that scared the Democrats on the registry board. How I wish you were here |
| 1:58.4 | to write up the funny things said and done. |
| 2:01.7 | Rhoda de Garmo told them that she wouldn't swear or affirm, but would tell the truth. |
| 2:07.3 | And they accepted that when the Democrat said my vote should not go in the box. |
| 2:13.2 | One Republican said to the other, |
| 2:15.2 | What do you say, Marsh? I say, put it in. |
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