People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Dr. Buchanan Sentenced. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Buchanan Sentenced.

New York, Aug. 15.—Dr. Robert W. Buchanan has been sentenced by Recorder Smyth to die in the electric chair in the week beginning October 3. Buchanan was convicted of killing his second wife by slow poison in order to obtain her fortune. He afterward remarried his first wife, who had obtained a divorce from him.