Jamestown, North Dakota, November 21, 1941 Adolph Martel settled back into his chair. It was chilly inside the hospital, but, then again, it was absolutely freezing outside. The papers had said that temps were supposed be hovering right around 0 with winds gusting upwards of 50 mph. One of the patients, a man named J.J. […]
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By 1930, 68-year-old George W. Appleby had practiced medicine for forty-years in the small town of Bristow, Iowa. In many ways, he was exactly what you’d expect – a white-haired elderly man who seemed to genuinely care about his patients and treated their various ailments with a healthy mixture of sage wisdom and medical knowledge.
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Dr. George Appleby was everything a small-town doctor should be: polite, gentle, and caring. But under the surface seethed hidden secret that would burst forth one dark day in 1900. Sources ‘Mad Deed of A Doctor.’ The Courier, 1/10/1900 ‘Dr. Appleby’s Crime.’ The Evening Times-Republican, 1/10/1900 ‘Insane Doctor’s Crime.’ The Des Moines Register, 1/10/1900
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