Joseph Biberich, of San Francisco, has his wife measured for a coffin before she is dead. [more]

Joseph Biberich, a San Francisco. Cal., man, was arrested the other night for disturbing the peace. Blberich has been married only six months, and his wife lies on her deathbed, cared for by a nurse and attended by kind-hearted neighbors. Biberich got drunk and tried to drive tho nurse from the bedside.Then the police interfered.

The nurse says he has openly threatened to poison his wife, and has pinched and beaten her while she lay powerless in bed. He called in an undertaker and had his wife measured for a coflin. Then be purchased a burial lot and made arrangements for the funeral. His wife has some property which, the nurse says, Biberich wants to get hold of.

The National Police Gazette, October 10, 1891

Policemen of Aurora Ill. Break into a famous resort during an orgy and capture some well-known young men of the town. 

The little city of Aurora, Ill. Is famed for its schools and its society, and it is also famed for having one of the fastest resorts of the demi-monde in the country. The other morning about 4 o’clock, a crowd of very well-known young sports of the town were having a high old time with the girlies, when the police made a raid on the place. They captured a fine crowd. Four of the prisoners will be compelled by the city to do a little time.

Reprinted from National Police Gazette, January 16, 1896.