Pearl D. Robinson, a 33-year-old white woman, was killed in Elmira, New York, on the night of Wednesday, July 5, 1933, after an evening that—on the surface—looked ordinary. Witness accounts later pieced together a rough final itinerary: she was seen with a man named Raymond Snyder at the Snyder Paint shop on George Street, and he reportedly left her waiting for a streetcar at 13th Street and Oakwood Avenue around 11:00 p.m. Not long after, employees of the Elmira Light, Heat, and Power Compa
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