They simulated a theft Gray went away from the house and he left Ruth tied, but their strategy was short-lived. On March 12, 1927, Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray garrotted and killed Albert, to collect Ruth husband’s life insurance. Ruth and Judd wanted to be together and the Albert’s tempting life insurance to $ 48,000 (Ruth’s husband) gave them the fatal idea. Ruth met Judd Gray, also married with a child, and the started a romance in which they were lovers for two years. The protagonist of the first page would be Ruth Snyder, 32, Scandinavian blonde, tall, attractive, loving of the Roaring Twenties, a normal wife of Queens Village, married to Albert, 45, with whom he had a daughter. It was the ‘Jazz Journalism’ era, a movement heir of mass journalism and sensationalism, which emerged after the First World War with newspapers as the Daily News, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Graphic, which had a tabloid format and gave a prominent role to photographic illustrations, which often occupied the entire front page. The New York Daily News (first published June 26, 1919), « soon attained a circulation of nearly one million, the largest among American tabloids», because of its sensationalism, and it’s considered the first modern tabloid due to its famous front cover of “Dead!” (January 13, 1928). 4-5), but the first tabloid with success was the Daily Mirror (1903), founded by Lord Northcliffe. Mario García wrote: «The first tabloid newspaper in the United States was The Daily Graphic (1873-1889)», (2005, pág. This is an atypical cover, both the image and the outcome. It wasn’t the headline which started a story but which ended it. And how! Joseph Medill Patterson was the co-editor of the Chicago Tribune along with his cousin, Robert R. McCormick, but they did not fully agree on the editorial of the daily, so Patterson handed over the daily control to Colonel McCormick and he moved to New York to found the New York Illustrated Daily News (June 26 1919), following the advices of Lord Northcliffe, who he met during a trip to London. « For sure it’s a great photo to catch people attention, because everyone look at this newspaper and inside them head would born a thought ‘Why women? Why on the electric chair?’’ It’s normal curious of people, which leads to buy (in this case) newspaper to read about it», says Eliza Tymczuk. ¿What did this woman do to be in the electric chair? So maybe now you are shocked about the image of this front page of 1928. Had you ever seen a woman on the electric chair? Neither do I: not on films, never on the magazines… cos you are used to see men in that tragic situation. You can appreciate on the right the autopsy table to which her body was going to be transferred. The newspaper titled "Dead!" with 172-points size font above the photo of Ruth Snyder on the electric chair. Front page of the New York Daily News (January 13 1928), regarded as the initiation of the tabloids.
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