No. 516
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
April 14, 2020
alias:
BURGLAR, RIVER THIEF
Welcome to the Link Dump, where our host for this week will be British composer Daphne Oram's cat! She had four cats, Elect, Tronic, Sine and Square. I don't know which one this is, but he is very welcome.When reference librarians were Google.Bigfoot? Or fat guy skinny-dipping? The world wonders!The patterns of near-death experiences.The (former) Versailles of
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Strange Company - 9/11/2026
[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
"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
(Illustrated Police News, February 1, 1885)On Thursday, July 27, 1882, Sarah Proctor, of Salem, Massachusetts, heard groans coming from the cellar where her husband, George, was working. Downstairs, she found him lying on the floor between two barrels. She rushed toward him exclaiming, “Good God, what is the matter, George?”There was no response, so she ran to a neighbor for help. He found
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Murder By Gaslight - 9/12/2026
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
“Well, you are too contemptible a man for me to look at, any way. You would murder me for a little, no doubt; but, thank God I am independent of you! I can buy you and your whole family now, if I choose.”The Bloody Century 2
Takes the reader back to 19th-century America in all its gory glory.
