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

Arrest of Female Prowlers.

Arrest of Female Prowlers Upon Bleecker Street, New York.
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July 7, 2024
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EDWARD A CONDIT
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SWINDLER BY BOGUS CHECKS

Weekend Link Dump

 Welcome to "Weekend Link Dump:  The Musical!"The bombing of LaGuardia Airport.When dead bodies were asked to pick out their murderer.The amulet that could rewrite the history of Christianity.The world's most haunted museum.  That's the boast, at any rate.It may be time to stop insulting the dodo bird.The U.S. Navy and the Soviets compete to find a crashed F-14 jet.15th century
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Strange Company - 8/7/2026

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

A Father's Demon Deed.

Illustrated Police News, February 8, 1879.O.P. Hull, a well-to-do farmer, lived with his wife and six children near the village of Wassonville, Iowa. Mr. Hull was a kind father and affectionate husband who was adored by his family. He especially doted on his attractive and popular 19-year-old daughter, Emma. Her comfort and happiness were foremost in his mind. He would leave nothing undone
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Murder By Gaslight - 8/1/2026
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.

Arrest of Female Prowlers.

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.

Prowlers

The portion of Bleecker Street, New York, in the vicinity of Broadway, is rapidly rivaling Greene and Mercer streets, in the number and quality of the female harpies who make it their cruising ground. Not a night passes without the arrest of one or more drunken prostitutes in this locality. They are of the lowest grade, and almost always noisy and disorderly. If Sodom surpassed New York in wickedness, no wonder it was destroyed.

Illustrated Police News, December 7, 1871.

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