No. 423
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
April 20, 2019
There are, unfortunately, no sponsors for this week's Link Dump. The staff at Strange Company HQ is busy celebrating Spring Break.
What the hell caused the Kentucky Meat Shower?
Watch out for those Midnight Washer Women!
In which Mr. Cambray asks to go to prison.
That time Benjamin Franklin had a rendezvous at Notre Dame.
Why you wouldn't necessarily want to see into the future.
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Strange Company - 4/19/2019
The Savoy bookstore in Westerly, R.I. was cram-packed with Borden case enthusiasts this evening as author Cara Robertson held forth …
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Lizzie Borden : Warps & Wefts - 3/26/2019
The Caledonian Mercury of Edinburgh reported on April 26, 1800 news from across the Inner Seas at Carrickfergus, north of Belfast. (Line breaks have been added to the trial report for readability.) CARRICKFERGUS ASSIZES At an Assizes held at Carrickfergus the 14th April inst. the following persons were tried: — William M’Ilnea, for the murder […]
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ExecutedToday.com - 4/19/2019
Jeff and Joe
Soapy Smith buries Joe Simmons
The Illustrated Police News
April 9, 1892
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oe Simmons
was a tall, slender gambler
known to many as “Gambler Joe” Simmons, a member of the Soap
Gang who managed Soapy Smith's Tivoli Club in Denver, 1890, and Soapy's Orleans
Club in Creede, 1892. According to William Devere’s poem "Two Little Busted Shoes," Simmons
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 3/25/2019
72-year-old Norman J. Lounsberry worked on the farm of his brother Horace in Nichols, New York and lived in a small house on his brother’s land. About twenty years after divorcing his first wife, Norman Lounsberry decided to marry again, and in December 1885 he married 17-year-old, Julia Presher.
Norman and his bride took their meals with the family of his brother, which included Horace
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Murder by Gaslight - 4/13/2019
alias: , BROWN, HERMAN GREENTHAL
PICKPOCKET
When the Watt-Pinkney mansion was built on a small hill in early 19th century Harlem, this white beauty with the mansard roof and two-story columns was part of a vast colonial-era farm owned by John De Lancey. This was the countryside, of course. The city of New York barely extended past Houston Street at the […]
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Ephemeral New York - 4/14/2019
[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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