No. 465
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
April 05, 2020
alias: HOYT, HYATT
Six Somali migrant workers were publicly beheaded in Jeddah on this date in 2005 for robbing taxi drivers. The muggings, though violent, were not fatal to the drivers, so the punishment was quite harsh even by the harsh standards of KSA. According to an Amnesty International researcher, the doomed men had not been “informed in […]
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Executed Today - 4/4/2020
When New York’s first cholera epidemic hit in 1832 and killed 3,515 people (out of a population of 250,000), the poor took the blame. “Many city officials implicated the residents of the poorest neighborhoods for contracting cholera, blaming their weak character, instead of viewing the epidemic as a public health problem,” stated Anne Garner, in […]
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Ephemeral New York - 3/29/2020
"BIG ED" BURNS
The Wichita daily Eagle
February 14, 1891
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trong Arm Workers in Trouble.
"Big Ed" Burns
Confidence man "Big Ed" Burns has a history all his own, but is just a shadow to most historians. Most know him as Ed Byrnes(sic), leader of the Top and Bottom Gang in Benson, Arizona. Burns was one of the men who warned Wyatt Earp that the "
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 4/4/2020
Beginning on January 1st, W&W will begin featuring fascinating short clippings from the Fall River papers and other newspapers from …
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Lizzie Borden: Warps and Wefts - 12/29/2019
Robert Hoey told police that as he was coming home from work in the early hours of March 15, 1898, he literally tripped over the body of a dead woman in the courtyard of the tenement where he lived at No. 27 Monroe Street in New York City. An autopsy revealed that the woman had been strangled to death and the police believed that the body had been dragged to the courtyard known in the
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Murder By Gaslight - 4/4/2020
"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn
The Link Dump is here!
Time to make merry!
Who the hell discovered Florida?
A forgotten Antarctic explorer.
Catherine the Great, children's book author.
The kind of thing that happens when you put an astrophysicist in lockdown.
You want to know how another guy spent his lockdown? Baking a 4,500 year-old loaf of bread. Which surely
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Strange Company - 4/3/2020
[Editor’s note: Guest writer, Peter Dickson, lives in West Sussex, England and has been working with microfilm copies of The Duncan Campbell Papers from the State Library of NSW, Sydney, Australia. The following are some of his analyses of what he has discovered from reading these papers. Dickson has contributed many transcriptions to the Jamaica Family […]
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