Henry Debosnys

A self-portrait of Debosnys with a pictogram.

Henry Debosnys (born 1836 in Lisbon, Portugal; died April 28, 1883 in Essex County, New York) was hanged for murder of his third wife, Elizabeth Wells.[1][2] His skull is on display at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown, New York.[3]

Debosnys left enciphered documents, that have never been decrypted, using a cryptographic script (or scripts) and/or pictograms.

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References

  1. ↑ Eric Voornis: Mysterious wife killer once again a topic: 2. April 2010
  2. ↑ https://books.google.de/books?id=xcd1OqTaPcYC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=Henry+Debosnys+portugal&source=bl&ots=kosHKBwlXw&sig=kBC93c4PDsvH3xMFJMz3pDslsgs&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAmoVChMIuoDoseaFyQIV4qZyCh1TWgTF#v=onepage&q=Henry%20Debosnys%20portugal&f=false
  3. ↑ http://strangeremains.com/2014/04/13/the-cranium-of-the-last-man-hanged-in-essex-county-ny/


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