5. Not a Woman Among Them

Episode 5 of 11: In 1900, New York considered women too delicate to hear courtroom testimony, but not too delicate to sit at the defense table facing a death sentence. We look at the twelve men who held Harriet Schmoll's life in their hands. It Made the Papers is researched, written, and produced by 8th-grade journalism students at Durgee Junior High School in Baldwinsville, NY, with support from their ELA teacher and school librarian. Season one, Murder on Marble Street, follows a 1900 murder in the students' own village and the questions it raises about life at the turn of the century. The series was inspired by Johnathan Croyle's November 2025 article on the case for Syracuse.com:⁠ https://www.syracuse.com/living/2025/11/did-jealousy-or-temporary-insanity-cause-a-baldwinsville-woman-to-shoot-her-neighbor-in-1900.html⁠ Image ResourcesEpisode cover art of the Schmull jury courtesy of the Evening Herald, Syracuse, 1900 Sound ResourcesCrowd talking - 072510_crowd_05.wav by moxobna -- https://freesound.org/s/102099/ -- License: Creative Commons 0