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Contract with the Devil - New England Legends Podcast

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6627 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Did the Devil make him do it? It's Murder, Mayhem & Mystery with a dash of The Devil! Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate an 1897 Good Friday murder and bank robbery that left the town of Somersworth, New Hampshire, in shock.  68-year-old pillar of the community, Joseph Stickney was found lying in the bank in a pool of his own blood. The police chased 24-year-old Joseph Kelley into Canada where he was apprehended and brought back to New Hampshire for trial. In court, Kelley claimed he was under contract with the Devil. For more episodes join us here each Monday or visit their website to catch up on the hundreds of tales that legends are made of. https://ournewenglandlegends.com/category/podcasts/Follow Jeff Belanger here: https://jeffbelanger.com/ Contract with the Devil - New England Legends Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hey Jack, I'm seeing your business everywhere. Have you got a new marketing person or something?

0:04.7

You could say I've got a new secret weapon for print. Print? Oh, Vista print, right? That's not a secret.

0:10.8

How did you know? Come on. Custom posters, branded mugs, stylish flyers. Only one place prints all that. Vista print.

0:17.7

Yeah, I got business cards, stickers, t-shirts, booklets, signage, even photo books from my last holiday.

0:23.2

Print everything for your business with VistaPrint.

0:25.9

If you need it, we print it at vistoprint.co.uk.

0:32.2

Downtown Summersworth, New Hampshire, looks like a cute little quiet New England town, Jeff.

0:36.8

Yeah, for sure. The town's nestled on the banks of the Salmon Falls River, which also marks

0:41.3

the town and states border with Maine.

0:43.6

There's a big white church here on Market Street, some restaurants and shops, and a fire

0:48.8

engine red building there. Oh, it's a bakery.

0:52.5

That bakery is our destination. Perfect. I could go for a cupcake or something like that. All right, yeah. We'll's a bakery. And that bakery is our destination.

0:54.6

Perfect.

0:55.2

I could go for a cupcake or something like that.

0:57.1

All right.

0:57.5

Yeah.

0:57.7

We'll park right over here.

1:02.9

This handsome three-story building wasn't always a bakery, Ray. This used to be the location of the

1:13.0

Great Falls National Bank. Well, now that you say it, it does seem like it could have been a bank.

1:18.1

It's got that stately look to it. Yeah, for sure. So back on Good Friday of 1897, a bank cashier was

1:24.9

murdered and robbed inside this building.

1:30.7

The perpetrator was chased across state and country lines,

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