No. 464
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
March 29, 2020
alias: SAMUEL FRANK, YOUNG JULIUS
On this date in 1572, Annecke Lange, Gesche Herbst, and Annecke Rotschroeder were all condemned and burned at Neustadt am Rübenberge, as witches and poisoners. Although commoners, they were the luckless casualties of misbegotten marital politics in the Holy Roman Empire, and in the words of Tara Nummedal in Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: […]
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Executed Today - 3/28/2020
THEY ALL HAVE "PULLS"
Denver Post, November 11, 1896
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istol balls sped in all directions
When Soapy Smith left Denver, Colorado for the final time, Bascom remained in Denver and thereafter in the West, never again to work with with his older brother. He continued to find trouble as revealed in a
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 3/18/2020
"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn
This week's Link Dump features skilled musical accompaniment!
Who the hell is (was?) the Long Island serial killer?
Famous left-handers from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Imagine winning a game show and finding out your prize is a date with a serial killer.
The lawyer who helped build the modern entertainment world. Does he deserve thanks,
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Strange Company - 3/27/2020
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
Elizabeth Ragan
As Arthur Ragan lay dying of a stomach ailment, in Piqua, Ohio, on April 3, 1855, his wife, Elizabeth took the physician aside and told him she believed her husband had poisoned himself. She said she thought the cream of tartar he had been taking for his stomach was actually arsenic. Mr. Ragan died that day, and a post-mortem examination proved his wife correct, he had
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Murder By Gaslight - 3/28/2020
The exterior city is what unsettles you first. Streets and sidewalks are quiet, lifeless. You see other people going in and out of shops or walking the dog, yet whenever you decide to get some air, six feet away from the occasional passerby, you feel like you’re the only person in all of New York. […]
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Ephemeral New York - 3/22/2020
[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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A female thief who carries a baby in her arms and made its flowing skirts a cover for stolen goods; New York City. [more]
