Albert Fish Trial Used Evidence Exhibit

This is a defense evidence exhibit from the trail of Albert Fish. An envelope addressed to one of his aliases, trying to prove that he was in Philadelphia at the time of Grace Budd's murder. The recipient was a woman who Fish had been mailing obscene letters to.

”On the sixth day (of trial) a woman named Grace Shaw testified as to how she received letters from Fish, signed Robert E. Hayden, in which he’d asked her to look after his 5-year-old boy “Bobby” and to spank him. The letters went on for a while, until he told her he was sending someone who also needed chastisement, a James W. Pell, an alias known to be used by Fish. Fish, as Pell, turned up, and when Mrs. Shaw refused to whip him, he went on his way.

Although she said she kept up the correspondance in order to gather evidence, she did admit that she was willing to do what he asked for money. Eventually, she gave the letters to authorities, who set a trap for “Hayden,” but he never showed up.”

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