Alphonse E Brengard: Murder 1st Degree & His Execution

Alphonse E Brengard was born 12 Apr 1904 in France to Charles Brengard (1876-1951) & Josephine Steiger (1880-1950).


Inmate: #88822 Sing Sing Prison N.Y.
Rec: 30 Jan 1934
Crime: Murder 1st Degree
Age: 29



Execution week 12 Mar 1934
Shot and killed Officer Jack Kennedy
Accomplice: William A French Inmate# 88621

Alphonse & his parents came to America on the ship SS La Touraine, 19 Aug 1906, arriving in New York City he was 2 yrs old.



Alphonse joined the New York National Guard 21 July 1930, Unit Co I 160th INF


Where did it all go wrong????

Here are the newspaper articles I found.


New evidence wins hearing:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24638959/alphonse-brengard/

Court ready to hear his plea:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24654789/alphonse-brengard/



Examining The Death Bullet:

https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn95071428/1934-01-19/ed-1/seq-1/

Death Trail:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24638927/alphonse-brengard/


Second half for the above


He was dead 6 Sep 1934 in Ossining, NY at age 29 had never been married or had children that is known.

His sibling were: 

Paul Brengard
1905–
Joseph Brengard
1912–
May Brengard
1917–
Louise Brengard

1921–

At age 15 he was a Laborer at a Pipe factory, living at home on Clifford Street in Queens, N.Y. At age 26 he is working as a gardner doing landscaping living on Waldinger St in Valley, Nassau, New York,still with his parents.

Who was this mystery witness??? Alphonse girlfriend??? Or some witness off the street that saw everything? Why keep her a secret.

The Death Penalty in New York:

https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1461&context=jlp

People Vs. Berngard

https://casetext.com/case/people-v-brengard



Summaries of
People v. Brengard
Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Jul 3, 1934
265 N.Y. 100 (N.Y. 1934)
In People v. Brengard (265 N.Y. 100, 103) the following facts were found by the jury: "The parked car which the policeman found in the woods was the property of Brengard. His hat lay a few feet from the car.

Summary of this case from People v. Gallo
In People v Brengard (265 N.Y. 100), a murder conviction was affirmed even though death came four years after the inflicting of a bullet wound.

Summary of this case from People v. Aponte

Here's a good book on Sing Sing called Inside The Death House, free to read.

https://epdf.pub/condemned-inside-the-sing-sing-death-house.html


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