And the answer to that infamous question is…?
Ah, now that would be telling. You’ll have to research that. It was the subject of perhaps the longest GQ thread in history - 7 pages - back in 2001.
While modern cites seem to say he was a vagrant, newpaper cites from the time always describe him as an unemployed fireman. Later contemporary cites said he was a vagrant.
The newspaper cites I’ve read tonight say that he was fed “wood alcohol” soaked oysters, and later fed “wood alcohol.” You can’t always trust news cites from the time, but they were consistant.
Four men were definitely executed at Sing Sing.
This was not an isolated incident. The plotters also did this to others to collect on insurance policies. That was brought out as part of how they got caught.
These guys were all in cahoots. A doctor, an undertaker, the owner of the speakeasy and a chemist. Makes for a nice group to cover up things.
You know, you got to be careful of dead bees if you’re goin’ around barefooted, 'cause if you step on them they can sting you just as bad as if they was alive, especially if they was kind of mad when they got killed. I bet I been bit a hundred times that way.
That’s a paraphrase of a Mark Twin line from Life on the Mississippi:
:eek: Say, she’s allright!
I have developed both a deep admiration and a hatred for you after causing me to read that thread in its entirety. 
I suppose I’m a lot more fortunate than the people who had to sit through it for four months, though…
For what it’s worth (five years later), I think your judgement was correct in keeping with the spirit of the contest by withholding the answer the way you did.
You have? Why don’t you bite them back?
I would, only I haven’t got a stinger!
Can someone link to the May 33 thread?
Daniel
So you’re not going to tell us either?
Rats! I jumped ahead. :smack:
Continuing the totally unrelated thread hijack, it’s weird this was brought up because yesterday my kid was stung by a disembodied bee abdomen and stinger. The bee itself had just been swatted to death on a window sill a short distance away. The abdomen apparently detached and got on the chair my kid was sitting in, and stung them on the back. It ALSO managed to get over to the next chair and sting my kid’s friend on the leg. We found the abdomen and couldn’t figure out what type of bug it was (no head, no wings, no legs, pointy end) until we discovered the swatted, abdomenless bee on the floor.
<Seinfeld>
That is one magic abdomen!
</Seinfeld>
Returning to the OP (which almost feels like a hijack at this point): A detailed account of the Malloy murder can be found in Where Death Delights: Adventures in Courtroom Medicine by Marshall Houts, published in 1967. It’s all about the career and cases of Milton Helpern, longtime chief medical examiner of New York City. A fascinating book if you can find a copy.
The same book tells the tale of Joseph Patrick O’Malley, who was electrocuted by peeing on the third rail in the subway. Mythbusters was apparently unaware of the book when they tackled that story.
The Amazing Stories episode was titled One for the Road and starred James Cromwell and Joey Pants.
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I remember that one–and I remember being stumped by that one too.
And I remember reading the answer when it appeared. And going D’oh! :smack: Because I’d read it before, in another source.
But I’m not telling either! 
It was I.V. ethanol and dialysis last time we had a guy who drank a couple of quarts of antifreeze I believe. He did quite well and was released a short time later.
I was really hoping somebody would link it for you, but since nobody did I was forced to search for it myself. (The nerve of some people!) For the record, it was from 2000, and only 5 pages long.
I have to know the answer…What happens on May 33rd, but only on leap years?
Never mind, that isn’t it. (Obviously.)
If the board weren’t SLOW AS FUCKING SHIT right now, I’d try again.