No. 118
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
May 24, 2013
The Bentz Stanley combination gets into a row in a Brooklyn boarding house.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

THOMAS O'CONNOR
alias: TOMMY CONNORS
BURGLAR
May 24, 2013
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Foretell Your Future!

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

odditiesoflife: The Historic and Haunted Ghost Town of...

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More...Little Penny Dreadful

Soapy Smith's grave marker stolen, 1908

Soapy Smith's final resting place The first of five grave markers placed over the grave (courtesy of  Dickey Family Collection) arl Gurcke published a post entitled, A Very Brief History...
More...Soapy Smith's Soap Box

1872: John Presswood Jr., the last legal hanging in DeKalb County

On this date in 1872, a faltering John Presswood Jr., “nearly 18 years old,” was publicly hanged in Smithville, Tenn., for a still-infamous crime there. He’s the last person to suffe...
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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