No. 436
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
August 17, 2019
alias: MOLLIE MATCHES
PICKPOCKET, BANK BURGLAR, ETC
Eighty-three-year-old Catholic theologian Charles-Louis Richard was shot by the army of revolutionary France on this date in 1794 in Mons, Belgium. Although not a household name to posterity, this Dominican (English Wikipedia entry | French) was in his day one of his party’s great polemicists and adver is called by Daniel-Rops the most distinguished apologist […]
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Executed Today - 8/16/2019
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
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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
When John Keys and Eva Dickenson were married in Cincinnati on August 21, 1890, they told their relatives that they planned to honeymoon on the Atlantic coast, but John had another plan. He purchased an Ohio River shanty-boat and planned a slow trip downriver to St. Louis. It would not be their last deception; in fact, what transpired on that fateful journey would remain forever shrouded in
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Murder By Gaslight - 8/10/2019
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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A female thief who carries a baby in her arms and made its flowing skirts a cover for stolen goods; New York City. [more]
