No. 118
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
May 23, 2013
Kate Fox Maggie Fox Leah Fox In March of 1848 two young sisters in Hydesville, New York—Maggie Fox, age 15 and  Katie Fox, age 11 ½ — devised a plan to fool their su... [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...
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BERTHA HEYMAN
alias: BIG BERTHA
CONFIDENCE QUEEN
May 17, 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...
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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...
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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 ...
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tiffanyandco: Tiffany diamonds were the screen darlings of the...

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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...
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"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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