When Theodore Roosevelt was Governor, he exercised every morning by running up and down the Capitol's 77 front steps. It 's rumored that if newspaper reporters wanted an interview with Roosevelt, they would simply have to beat him to the top of the stairs.
The day is May 7, 1827. A large yellow house in Albany's South End is occupied by members of an extended family, and a slave, just finishing up from dinner. The men are upstairs discussing business and politics, and the women are on the lower level enjoying a chat by candlelight. At approximately 9:15 p.m., a gunshot rings out through the darkness from outside and a man is dead. Chaos ensues and a manhunt for the killer begins.