No. 118
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
May 23, 2013
Mrs. Mandelbaum's Special Devices for Dealing with Thieves, and the secret Trap-Door Escape. More...

Mrs. Sarah Rhodes.

Little Murders: From Defenders and Offenders: Mrs. Sarah Rhodes. “This remarkable woman, who sports a moustache, is accused of murdering Farmer Blizzard, a married man, and who seemed to be i...
More...Murder By Gaslight

BERTHA HEYMAN
alias: BIG BERTHA
CONFIDENCE QUEEN
May 17, 2013
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Foretell Your Future!

Soapy Smith and the Brackett Road

"The Light of Other Days" A gang of thimble riggers working a dupe "Thimble rigging" is the shell and pea game, with thimbles (Credit: friend Tom Frank) (Click image to enlarge) uthor Cat...
More...Soapy Smith's Soap Box

castaroundvintage: Lock & Whitfield, 1850s. Unknown woman.

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More...Little Penny Dreadful

A Harlem faded ad keeps 1970s radio alive

The 1970s Top-40 music scene lives on thanks to this almost perfectly preserved ad, on the side of a building at 145th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. I’m guessing it went up in the disco era, w...
More...Ephemeral New York

1876: Four for the Mutiny on the Lennie

As criminals go, the Lennie mutineers were neither organized nor gifted. Indeed, they likely did not fancy themselves mutineers when they perpetrated a triple-murder of the officer corps on board the ...
More...Executed Today

She is So Very Gifted!

Gifted By ANNE CAMPBELL She is so very gifted! If she should write a song, The lyric would be garbled, The melody all wrong. But singing to her baby She builds a world of peace Where sorrow does not e...
More...YesterYear Once More


"We follow vice and folly where a police officer dare not show his head, as the small, but intrepid weasel pursues vermin in paths which the licensed cat or dog cannot enter."

 The Sunday Flash 1841

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