Born to Lose (64 page)

Mason, Donald (Maryland state's attorney). Letter to Hon. Francis B. Burch. 1 June 1971. Letter provided a rationale as to why Hoss's right to a speedy trial was not violated. In Source Citations, Mason, letter to Burch, 1 June 1971.

———. Letter to Maryland State's Attorney's Office. 24 Sept. 1970.

Mason was seeking opinion and interpretation of the Interstate Detainer Act's application to Hoss. In Source Citations, Mason, letter, 24 Sept. 1970.

McGrogan, Robert. Sworn statement in Court of Common Pleas to Pittsburgh, Pa., District Attorney's Office. Prison # C-9483, 11 Dec. 1973, 1330 hrs., 7, 8 June 1974, Frick Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. In Source Citations, McGrogan testimony.

Office of State's Attorney, Cumberland, Md. Legal Chronology of
State of Maryland v. Stanley B. Hoss, Jr
., No. 1090 (Peugeot case). Criminal Trials in Circuit Court for Allegany County, Md. Held in archives of Office of Maryland State's Attorney. This chronology includes sixteen motions from 9 Oct. 1969 to 21 Apr. 1971. In Source Citations, legal chronology, Peugeot case.

Penn Hills Police Department, Allegheny County, Pa. Criminal arrest report for Thomas Lubresky. 10 Sept. 1983. This includes his Record of Arrest and Prosecution (RAP sheet).

Photographs of Peterson murder scene. Western Penitentiary, Pa. 10 Dec. 1973. Given to author by William S. Stickman III. In Source Citations, photographs of Peterson murder scene, 10 Dec. 1973.

Police audio tapes. Verona, Penn Hills, Oakmont, Plum Boro, and Pittburgh, Pa., police departments. Transmissions at time of Zanella shooting, afternoon and evening, 19 Sept. 1969. In Source Citations, police audio tapes, Zanella shooting, 19 Sept. 1969.

Porter, John L. (special agent, FBI). Report to U.S. Attorney, Pittsburgh, Pa., and U.S. Attorney, Baltimore, Md., on Stanley Hoss. 31 Oct. 1969. Archives, Office of State's Attorney for Allegany County, Cumberland, Md. In Source Citations, Porter, FBI report on S. Hoss, 31 Oct. 1969.

———. Undated summary of S. Hoss's travels and activities, 21 Sept.–4 Oct. 1969. In Source Citations, Porter, summary of S. Hoss's travel and activities, 21 Sept.–4 Oct. 1969.

Roney, Dave (detective). Supplementary investigation report to Putnam County Sheriff's Department on progress of investigation. 16 Jan. 1978. Report includes interview with S. Hoss on 9 Jan. 1978.

Samson, Paul (special agent, FBI). Report of interviews with parents of Linda Peugeot (probably written in Cumberland, Md.) to Baltimore, Md., Pittburgh, Pa., and Washington, D.C., FBI offices. 23 Sept. 1969. In Source Citations, Samson, report to FBI on Peugeots, 23 Sept. 1969.

Start, Joseph. Supplementary report to Chief Edward Crone on interview with inmate Whitman Shute, Pittsburgh, Pa. 19 Dec. 1969. Report concerned location of bodies of Linda and Lori Mae Peugeot. In Source Citations, Start, supplementary report on Shute, 19 Dec. 1969.

———, and Martin Corcoran. Interrogations of Stanley Hoss, Waterloo, Iowa. 8 Oct. 1969. Start and Corcoran were captain and sergeant respectively in the Allegheny County Detective Bureau, Pa., reporting to the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office, Pittburgh, Pa. In Source Citations, Start and Corcoran, interrogations of Hoss, 8 Oct. 1969.

———. Interviews of Stanley Hoss, Western Penitentiary, Pa., 12 Oct. 1969. In Source Citations, Start and Corcoran, interviews of Hoss, 12 Oct. 1969.

Wecht, Cyril (coroner). Report on Walter Peterson, Case 7312–132, Docket 70. Dec. 1973. In Source Citations, coroner's report on Peterson, Dec. 1973.

Letters and Other Unpublished Sources

Anonymous. Handwritten note to Carmen DeLellis (chief, Verona Police Department). Verona, Pa. 4 Oct. 1969. In Source Citations, anonymous note to DeLellis of Hoss's capture, 4 Oct. 1969.

Beynon, Jo (columnist,
Cumberland Times-News
). Conversations and correspondence with author. 2001–3.

Hollock, James. “Tragedy of '24, Seventy-Nine Years Later” (commemorative speech and event re: Western Penitentiary). 11 Feb. 2003.

Hoss, Stanley. Eighty-eight letters to Diane Hoss (Stanley's then wife) from prison. 1970–78. In possession of Diane Hoss. In Source Citations, Hoss, prison letter[s]. My thanks to her for graciously loaning me the letters.

Matecka, Betty. Letters to Diane Hoss. 24 Jan. 1970, 13 Dec. 1974. In possession of Diane Hoss. In Source Citations, B. Matecka, letters to D. Hoss. My thanks to her for graciously loaning me the letters.

———. Letters to Stanley Hoss. 25 Jan. 1974, plus undated letters. In Source Citations, B. Matecka, letters to S. Hoss.

Mayberry, Richard. Various letters to author from prison. 2002. In author's possession. In Source Citations, Mayberry, letters, 2002.

Sizemore, Barbara. Letters to editor,
Valley News Dispatch
. 24 Aug., 10 Oct. 1973.
Pittsburgh Press
, n.d.

Warner, Fred. Unpublished papers and photographs. Various dates.

Newspapers

Advance-Leader
. Oakmont, Pa.

Butler Eagle
. Butler, Pa.

Cumberland News
(name changed to
Cumberland Times-News
, 1988). Cumberland, Md.

Cumberland Sunday Times
. Cumberland, Md.

Fairbury Blade
. Fairbury, Ill.

Pittsburgh Courier
. Pittsburgh, Pa.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
. Pittsburgh, Pa.

Pittsburgh Press
(made defunct 31 Dec. 1992 under joint operating agreement with the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
). Pittsburgh, Pa.

Valley News Dispatch
. Tarentum, Pa.

Waterloo Daily Courier
. Waterloo, Iowa.

Secondary Sources

Books and Articles

Barnes, Harry Elmer. “The Evolution of Penology in Pennsylvania: A Study in American Social History.” Publication no. 21, Patterson Smith reprint series in criminology, law enforcement, and social problems. 1968.

Beynon, Jo (columnist,
Cumberland Times-News
). Various newspaper columns.
Cumberland Times-News
. 2002–5. These include “Escapee Wanted for Local Crime,” 9 May 2001; “More on Hoss Double Murder,” 17 May 2001; “You Can't Please Everyone,” 7 June 2001; “What Happened to Hoss,” 14 June 2001.

“Bones: Could It Be Linda Peugeot?” AP, Ottawa, Ohio. 7 Jan. 1978.

Bruce High School. 1966 Yearbook. Westernport, Md.: Privately printed, 1966. In Source Citations, Bruce High School Yearbook, 1966.

Community Information Guide. City of Clairton, Pa. 1993. Brochure.

“Court Spares Hoss's Life.” UPI. 13 Oct. 1971.

Focus Magazine
. Feature story on George Butler. 6 Nov. 1977.

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell.
The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and His Times
, 2d. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1966.

Inside Detective
. “I Killed a Policeman and I'll Kill You!” (cover story). January 1970.

Kegg, Suter. “Young Mother, Child Murdered 25 Years Ago.”
Cumberland Times-News
. 4 Jan. 1994.

Klimko, Tony. “Stanley Hoss Rampage Started 30 Years Ago Today.”
Valley News Dispatch
. 19 Sept. 1999.

Leuchter, Fred. “Execution by Hanging: It's a Matter of Choice.” Operation and instruction manual for the State of Delaware. 1 May 1990.

Look, Margaret Kincaid.
At Home on the Workhouse Farm
. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Privately published by M. K. Look, 1986.

Morrow, Steve, with Edna Thompson (mother of Linda Peugeot). Untitled draft of article on Linda Peugeot
. The Cumberland News
. 21 Sept. 1970.

“Partners in Death” (story of Frank Phelan).
Philadelphia Daily News
. 29 Dec. 1993.

Pittsburgh Business Magazine
. Biography of forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht. Sept. 1997.

“Riot, Murder at Pen.”
Pittsburgh Press
. 11 Feb. 1924.

Roddy, Dennis. “We Now Know Everything about George Butler Except Why.” Op-ed.
Pittburgh Post-Gazette
. 9 June 2001.

Simonich, Milan. “Special Treatment for Killer of Guard: Thirty Years in Solitary.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
. 1 June 2003.

Teeters, Negley K.
The Cradle of the Penitentiary: The Walnut Street Jail at Philadelphia, 1773–1835
. Philadelphia, Pa.: Pennsylvania Prison Society, 1955.

Thomas, Herbert E.
The Shame Response to Rejection
. Sewickley: Albanel Publishers, 1997.

Warner, Fred.
History of the Fred Warner Family of Cresaptown, Maryland
. Self-published, 1992.

———.
Remembrances (of World War II)
. Self-published, 1989.

———.
Warner's German Restaurant Cookbook
. Self-published, 1996.

Wereschagin, Mike. “Prison Housed Some High-Profile Inmates.”
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
. 14 Jan. 2005.

“The Western Penitentiary.”
The Home Monthly
. Feb. 1900.

Wright, Edward S.
A Brief History of Western Penitentiary
. N.p.: 1910.

 

Aldrich, Bob,
147

Allegany County, Maryland,
99
,
116

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,
27
,
99
; in struggle for jurisdiction over Hoss,
160–66

Allegheny County Detective Bureau,
17
,
159–62

Allegheny County Jail,
30
; coroner's inquest at,
309–10
; Hoss at,
37–38
,
202
; problems at,
36–38
,
165
; Robinson as warden of,
36–37
; transfers to workhouse from,
38–39

Allegheny County Workhouse,
43
; history of,
39
; Hoss and Lubresky's escape from,
38
,
41–49
,
54
,
151
,
248–49
; Hoss at,
36
,
40
; Hoss's additional time for escape from,
237
; racial tension at,
40
; Robinson at,
36–37
; transfers from jail to,
38–39

Anderson, John,
214

anti-Semitism,
237

appearance, Hoss's,
193
,
238
,
313
; at coroner's inquest,
310
; in Defino kidnapping,
4
; descriptions of,
95
,
131
; eyes of,
17
,
159
,
267
; “good looking,”
36
; at Graterford Prison,
338–39
,
346–48
; picture in TV story about Zanella's murder,
82–83
; police lacking photos or descriptions of,
75
,
80
; at recapture,
138
; for sentencing,
239–40
; smile at trials,
227
,
324
; surgery to reduce ear size,
251
; for trials,
202
,
204
,
322

armed robberies, Hoss's,
29
; in crime spree following escape,
85
,
220
; at Falconers',
16–18
,
24–25
; getting money on the run from,
113–14
,
124
,
130–31
,
157

arraignments, Hoss's,
30
,
147

arrests: of Harry Hoss,
27–28
; of Hoss,
26–28
; Hoss recaptured in Iowa,
137–46
,
160
,
166–67
; Hoss's vow to resist recapture,
54
,
90
; of Lubresky,
232
; Zanella attempting Hoss's,
65–66
; of Zurka,
33
,
151

Baker, Erma Jean,
116
,
354

Baker, William F. “Bill,”
120
,
179
; cop killers and,
179–80
; on grave sites of Peugeots,
184
,
346
; on Peugeots' kidnapping,
116–17
,
222
,
354

Barking, Pennsylvania,
78–81

Baxter, Clifford,
61

Baxter, Fred: after trial for Zanella murder,
218–19
; appealing Hoss's conviction in Zanella murder,
231–32
,
235–36
,
240
,
250
; criticism of split Verdict Act,
235
; defending Hoss for Zanella murder,
200–202
; Fagan's relationship with,
209
–
10
; in penalty phase of trial for Zanella's murder,
220–26

Beal, Ben,
167

Beck, John and Beatrice,
269
,
271

Belotti, Mike,
50
,
52

bench warrant, in struggle for jurisdiction over Hoss,
160–66

Beutler, Bob,
346–47

“Bill” (Hoss using as alias),
3
,
5–12
,
24

“Bill Matecka” (Hoss using as alias),
124
,
127

“Bill Wallace” (Hoss using as alias),
123
,
192–93

“Bill Young” (Hoss using as alias),
112–14

Black Hawk County Jail, Hoss kept in after recapture,
147
,
160
,
164

Blank, Fred,
78–83

Blauch, Nellie,
103

Blawnox, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County Workhouse in,
39
,
47

Blawnox Police,
50

Bliss, Wilbur,
22
; Hoss arrested by,
26–27
,
157
; looking for Hoss after Zanella's murder,
73–74
,
90

Bodner, Joe,
270

Boehm, Sharon,
1
,
19
,
32

Botula, Ted,
40

Boyd, Gary,
293–94

Braatz, Louis,
146

Bradburn, Gloria,
70–72
,
84–85
,
124