No. 650
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
May 3, 2024
A Lunatics Ball.
Ball of lunatics at the Asylum, Blackwell's Island, East River, N. Y.
October 10, 2023
alias: BOSTON CHARLEY
STALL, PICKPOCKET, BANCO
In 1883, Edward Rowell of Batavia, New York, suspected his
wife of cheating and set a trap to catch her. He told her he would be gone for
severl days on business but did not leave. That night he caught his wife in bed
with their former neighbor, Johnson Lynch. Rowell burst into the room brandishing
a revolver and fired wildly wounding his wife and killing Lynch. The murder
caused quite a
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Murder By Gaslight - 4/27/2024
Via Newspapers.comThis is another of what I call “mini-mysteries”--murder or missing-persons cases where there just isn’t enough information for a regular blog post. This account of a “Missing 411”-style disappearance appeared in the Glens Falls “Post-Star,” November 15, 2017:HORICON — Two years ago Wednesday, Thomas Messick Sr. vanished in the woods of Horicon while deer hunting with
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Strange Company - 5/1/2024
Via Newspapers.comThis is another of what I call “mini-mysteries”--murder or missing-persons cases where there just isn’t enough information for a regular blog post. This account of a “Missing 411”-style disappearance appeared in the Glens Falls “Post-Star,” November 15, 2017:HORICON — Two years ago Wednesday, Thomas Messick Sr. vanished in the woods of Horicon while deer hunting with
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Strange Company - 5/1/2024
In 1883, Edward Rowell of Batavia, New York, suspected his
wife of cheating and set a trap to catch her. He told her he would be gone for
severl days on business but did not leave. That night he caught his wife in bed
with their former neighbor, Johnson Lynch. Rowell burst into the room brandishing
a revolver and fired wildly wounding his wife and killing Lynch. The murder
caused quite a
More...
Murder By Gaslight - 4/27/2024
Via Newspapers.comThis is another of what I call “mini-mysteries”--murder or missing-persons cases where there just isn’t enough information for a regular blog post. This account of a “Missing 411”-style disappearance appeared in the Glens Falls “Post-Star,” November 15, 2017:HORICON — Two years ago Wednesday, Thomas Messick Sr. vanished in the woods of Horicon while deer hunting with
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Strange Company - 5/1/2024
It doesn’t look like much, just another semi-vacant commercial building—this one on the southeast corner of 106th Street and Third Avenue—now occupied by a Duane Reade. But give it a closer look, and Art Deco decorative touches come in to view, like the patterns in the light bricks and small geometric shapes above the first […]
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Ephemeral New York - 4/29/2024
In 1883, Edward Rowell of Batavia, New York, suspected his
wife of cheating and set a trap to catch her. He told her he would be gone for
severl days on business but did not leave. That night he caught his wife in bed
with their former neighbor, Johnson Lynch. Rowell burst into the room brandishing
a revolver and fired wildly wounding his wife and killing Lynch. The murder
caused quite a
More...
Murder By Gaslight - 4/27/2024
In 1883, Edward Rowell of Batavia, New York, suspected his
wife of cheating and set a trap to catch her. He told her he would be gone for
severl days on business but did not leave. That night he caught his wife in bed
with their former neighbor, Johnson Lynch. Rowell burst into the room brandishing
a revolver and fired wildly wounding his wife and killing Lynch. The murder
caused quite a
More...
Murder By Gaslight - 4/27/2024
Via Newspapers.comThis is another of what I call “mini-mysteries”--murder or missing-persons cases where there just isn’t enough information for a regular blog post. This account of a “Missing 411”-style disappearance appeared in the Glens Falls “Post-Star,” November 15, 2017:HORICON — Two years ago Wednesday, Thomas Messick Sr. vanished in the woods of Horicon while deer hunting with
More...
