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By: New York Daily News

Date: January 13, 1928

Source: Execution of Woman in Sing Sing Prison. Daily News, January 13, 1928, 1. Available online at Daily News Pix: The Photo Archive of The New York Daily News, http://www.dailynewspix.com (accessed April 24, 2003).

About the Publication: The New York Daily News, started by Joseph Medill Patterson in 1919, was the nation's first tabloid-style paper. By the mid-1920s the Daily News reached a circulation of over one million. At the time of Patterson's death in 1946, it stood as the nation's highestcirculation paper, selling well over two million copies every weekday and more than four and a half million copies on Sundays. Patterson had a long family heritage in newspaper publishing. His father, Robert W. Patterson, served as editor of the...