A black lab named “Pep” was sentenced to life without parole by Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot for reportedly killing his wife’s favorite cat.
Daily Mail has more:
He was known as the Pennsylvania cat-murderer, a vicious hound sentenced to life imprisonment at Eastern State Penitentiary for the grisly killing of the governor's moggie.
In his prison mugshot from 1924, he is seen with ears drooping backwards, an identification number hanging form around his neck looking decisively guilty.
According to newspapers stories at the time, Pep the Black Labrador attacked and killed a cat belonging to the wife of Pennsylvania's then governor Gifford Pinchot.
Showing absolutely no remorse for his despicable crimes, Pep was sent down for life with no chance of parole
The account of him killing the cat was entirely fictitious, made up by a newspaper reporter taking a touch more than his fair share of journalistic licence.
But he was framed. Pep was actually entirely innocent, and his actual offence was nothing more serious than chewing the cushions of the sofa on the governor's front porch.
The editor loved the story as it was frequently reprinted bearing the mugshot picture.
Governor Pinchot's son would later recall how his father was inundated with 'absolutely thousands of letters' about Pep and his prison sentence.
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