No. 436
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
August 18, 2019
alias: MOLLIE MATCHES
PICKPOCKET, BANK BURGLAR, ETC
(Thanks to Richard Clark of Capital Punishment U.K. for the guest post, a reprint of an article originally published on that site with some explanatory links added by Executed Today. CapitalPunishmentUK.org features a trove of research and feature articles on the death penalty in England and elsewhere. -ed.) On August 17, 1785, Elizabeth Taylor was […]
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Executed Today - 8/17/2019
By Jo Anne Giovino with photography and research by Barbara Morrissey and Kristin Pepe *(All rights reserved, August 2019) Although …
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Lizzie Borden: Warps and Wefts - 7/31/2019
This week's Link Dump is hosted by Clark Gable.
And a cat. Who frankly, my dear, doesn't give a damn.
The ghost of the Astor Library.
Illustrations of 1893 London.
Life in the Netherlands must be one big round of excitement.
The ghost of Black Hope Cemetery.
Yet another hitchhiking ghost. No highway is complete without one!
The last person to be executed in New York.
The
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Strange Company - 8/16/2019
Jeff and Joe
Soapy Smith buries Joe Simmons
The Illustrated Police News
April 9, 1892
(Click image to enlarge)
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
(sic)
Mary Catherine Anderson—Katie to her friends—was in good spirits when she went out the evening of Monday, February 7, 1887. 16-year-old Katie Anderson was a domestic servant living at the home of her employer, Stat Colkitt on his farm in Mount Holly, New Jersey. She said she was just going out for a walk, but Katie was not seen again until Tuesday morning when a neighboring farmer found
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Murder By Gaslight - 8/17/2019
In 1925, Edward Hopper likely went up to the roof of his studio at 3 Washington Square North to complete this painting of the top two stories of an old building. He ultimately titled it “Skyline, Near Washington Square.” “The brownstone’s facade is encrusted with Victorian cornices, brackets, arched and square window moulds picked out […]
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Ephemeral New York - 8/11/2019
[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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