"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan MandijnWelcome to this week's Link Dump!This seemed like a suitably Strange Company way to anticipate Thanksgiving.Al Capone and greyhound racing.The Meierhoffer murder.A plethora of American dragons.A brief history of olive harvesting.What it was like to be an ancient Roman gladiator.Harvard and the body-snatchers.How mistletoe became associated with
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 →
Soapy STAR notebookPage 13 - Original copy1882Courtesy of Geri Murphy(Click image to enlarge)
OAPY SMITH'S STAR NOTEBOOKPart #13 - Page 13
This is page 13, dated 1882, the continuation of deciphering Soapy Smith's "star" notebook from the Geri Murphy's collection. A complete introduction to this notebook can be seen on page 1. Page 13 is a continuation from page 11 and 12, and
An article I recently wrote for the British online magazine, New Politic, is now available online. The article, “The Criminal Origins of the United States of America,†is about British convict transportation to America, which took place between the years 1718 and 1775, and is the subject of my book, Bound with an Iron Chain: […]
Ella Shingledecker, wife of a Bourbon, Ind., man, adopts a novel method of getting rid of her husband.
Ella Shingledecker, of Bourbon Ind., recently tried to poison her husband with strychnine. She then drove eight-penny nails in his ear while he was asleep. Shingledecker is badly injured. His wife was arrested and held to await the result of his injuries.
"Drove Nails in his Ear." The National Police Gazette 17 Sep 1894: 6.
"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