No. 550
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
December 3, 2021
alias: COLEMAN, HARTMAN
Entrance to Juneau Company WharfLocation of the shootout on Juneau Wharf 1898Circa 1930s-1940sJeff Smith collection(Click image to enlarge)
ntrance to Juneau Company Wharf Here is a new addition to my photograph collection. The above is the cropped, close-up showing the entrance to the Juneau Company Wharf where Soapy Smith and Frank Reid shot it out in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf,
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 12/1/2021
[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 Family […]
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Early American Crime - 2/7/2019
Via Newspapers.comHere’s a new category for the Fortean section of this blog: Mystery Holes! The “St. Louis Post-Dispatch,” March 19, 1985:There is a mysterious hole in the ground, discovered last fall, in the northwestern part of the state of Washington on the Colville Indian Reservation, not far from the Grand Coulee Dam. A chunk of earth 10 feet long, 7 feet wide and 18 inches to 2 feet deep
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Strange Company - 12/1/2021
Martha Place, driven by jealousy, strangled her stepdaughter.Read the full story here: The Brooklyn Murderess.
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Murder By Gaslight - 11/27/2021
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 engaged as a carrier of wine, because he and his brother, with the help of […]
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