No. 495
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
October 30, 2020
Why She Pummeled Him.
A Cincinnati woman gets up a lively street sensation by vigorously thrashing a man on the sidewalk,
April 17, 2017
alias: , GENERAL GREENTHAL, MEYERS
“The Witches’ Cove,” Follower of Jan Mandijn This week’s Link Dump is sponsored by representatives of Halloween Cats United!A murderer leaves an enigmatic message behind her.How Henry VIII micromanaged Anne Boleyn's execution.That time AC/DC went hunting for the Loch Ness Monster. Using fireworks. And, yes, adult beverages played a major role in our story.Murder tips from Burke and Hare.The
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Strange Company - 10/30/2020
A CHAMPIONSan Francisco ChronicleOctober 12, 1898(Click image to enlarge)
ASCOMB IS A CHAMPION Guess Bascomb Smith wasn't all bad. The texts of the newspaper appear below. Miss Hall finds a champion.
Brother of “ Soapy” Smith claims her as his wife.There is another side to the pathetic story told to the police by Minnie Hall, the Vaudeville actress to jump into the bay from Howard
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 9/25/2020
On this date in 1790, Samuel Hadlock hanged for a drunken murder committed on Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine. This fantastic story was thoroughly excavated in 1998 by some enthusiasts at the Mount Desert Island Historical Society; their resulting study, “Hadlock Executed This Day” can be perused in pdf form. His journey […]
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Executed Today - 10/28/2020
Colorization can sometimes add another whole dimension to vintage black and white photos. We’ve done this one of the crime …
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Lizzie Borden: Warps and Wefts - 8/31/2020
Dr. Henry Meyer, his wife Maria, and their associate Ludwig Brant devised an elaborate plan to defraud insurance companies. Maria and Brant held a mock wedding then took out several insurance policies on his life with Maria as beneficiary. The plan was to then obtain a cadaver, declare it was the body of Ludwig Brant, and collect the insurance. Unbeknownst to Brant, Dr. Meyer and Maria decided
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Murder By Gaslight - 10/24/2020
New York City has no shortage of reportedly haunted houses—from the East Fourth Street home of 19th century merchant Seabury Tredwell and his large family to the Morris-Jumel mansion in Washington Heights, where a rich widow born in the 1770s lived out her days. But when it comes to haunted houses that truly look spooky, […]
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Ephemeral New York - 10/26/2020
[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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