No. 757
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
July 07, 2024

Shark Fishing off Cobb's Island, Virginia.

Aquatic Sport on the Virginia Coast.
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July 7, 2024
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Tag: Accident

A Man's Head Blown to Atoms.

A man's head blown to atoms by the explosion of a beer barrel on Long Island.

8/30/2021

Shot for a Bear.

An unsuspecting woman in Platte Lake, Mich., is horribly and fatally made game of.

12/9/2020

Another Fool with a Gun.

Mattie Salter killed by her brother, who didn’t know it was loaded, Sandersville, Ga.

2/18/2019

She Swallowed Her Teeth.

Mrs. Dunsford, of Reading, Pa., meets with a mishap in a theatre.

2/15/2016

Heroism of a Society Belle.

The Bravery of charming Miss Jaffray, the daughter of a New York millionaire, saves many lives at Irvington, N. Y.

12/28/2015

In a Deadly Folding-Bed.

12/15/2014

Fatal Soda Fountain Explosion.

5/13/2014
CHARLES R TITUS
alias: DOCTOR THOMPSON
FORGER

Weekend Link Dump

 Welcome to this week's Link Dump!Meanwhile, the Strange Company HQ staffers are hoping to make the 2028 U.S. Olympics gymnastics team.Navigating the Pacific, ancient Polynesian style.How to make a medieval king fall in love with you.  Although, considering what most medieval kings were like, I'm not sure that you'd want this.A murder that was "solved," but remains unresolved.The "Oz
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Strange Company - 9/4/2026

Convicts to Maryland, 1773 by Peter Dickson

  [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 […]
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Early American Crime - 2/7/2019
Amen.

Artifact #93: Soapy's son, hires attorney to stop the slurring of his father's name.

"As his son I am proud of hisefforts to succeed in life"Jefferson Randolph Smith IIIArtifact #93-2Jeff Smith collection(Click image to enlarge) oapy's son hires a legal firm to stop the defamation of his father's name. At age 30, Jefferson Randolph Smith III, Soapy and Mary's oldest son, was protecting his father's legacy and his mother's reputation from "libel" and scandal. He was also
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 10/13/2025

Sadie and Clarence.

Sadie and Clarence.In April 1894, the murder of Montgomery Gibbs, a successful attorney, caused great excitement in Buffalo, New York. He was found shot to death in a driveway on Delaware Avenue with no clues to the killer’s identity. The police and newspapers investigated the crime, but they had no solid leads, and it remained unsolved. Then, in October, they received a tip that Clarence
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Murder By Gaslight - 9/5/2026
On the Russians.

1617: A miller of Manberna, the hangman’s last

Youth With Executioner by Nuremberg native Albrecht Dürer … although it’s dated to 1493, which was during a period of several years when Dürer worked abroad. November 13 [1617]. Burnt alive here a miller of Manberna, who however was lately … Continue reading →
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Executed Today - 11/13/2020
A Pullman Parlor Car. | Knocked Dead by a Meteor.

Shark Fishing off Cobb's Island, Virginia.

Shark-Fishing Aquatic Sport on the Virginia Coast.

The body of water between the outlying islands and the main coast of the eastern Virginia Peninsula swarms at certain seasons of the year with sharks, and the sport of catching them, while not altogether without danger, has a strong attraction for adventurous fishermen. There are two kinds, the blue and the yellow, the latter attaining a large size. The island (Cobb’s) at which our sketch was made is a favorite resort of sportsmen.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, November 9, 1889.

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