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Antoine le Blanc was a French immigrant allowed to live in the small, dank basement of the Morristown, New Jersey farmhouse of the Sayres in 1833, in exchange for chopping wood and feeding hogs, but went unpaid. After two weeks of taking orders and hard work, he took out revenge by murdering the farmer, wife, and slave. He was hanged before over ten thousand, and his skin was "dissected" to be made into wallets, purses, lampshades, and book jackets. His face was made into a plaster mask, and this and other products were passed to Carl Scherzer, a collector of 19th century artefacts.
External links
The Wallet-man (http://www.weirdnj.com/_localheroes/walletman.html)
The History Channel gets 'Weird' (http://www.thnt.com/thnt/story/0,21282,1095732,00.html)
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