No. 141
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
March 28, 2013

Stabbed for not Buying Drinks.

Fresh Young Fellow Gets Six Inches of Cold Steel at a Sporting Resort, Seattle, Wash.
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Tag: Sport

A Rattling Main.

A desperate week-long challenge battle between Georgia and Arkansas cocks won by F. E. Grist's champion, Richard K Fox.

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Surf Swimming at Hawaii, Sandwich Islands.

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A Monkey and Dog Time.

The novel bating match in Van Wert, Ohio, between a Marion gorilla and a Fort Wayne, Indiana Canine.

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Hid the Girls' Skirts

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Belles of the Bowling Alley.

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EDW'D FAIRBROTHER
alias: DOCTOR ST CLAIR, DR EDW'D S WEST
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The Plum Tree Hanging

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Convicts to Maryland, 1773 by Peter Dickson

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Amen.

Artifact #93: Soapy's son, hires attorney to stop the slurring of his father's name.

"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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The Three Hangings, Lycoming County.

This week, we feature a guest post by Don Everett Smith Jr., author of The Goffle Road Murders of Passaic County (History Press, 2011).   In a previous post on Murder by Gaslight, “Revisiting the Goffle Road Murders,” Don presented an excerpt from his book. This week’s post, “The Three Hangings, Lycoming County,” examines the 1880 murder of Andrew Miller in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
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On the Russians.

1617: A miller of Manberna, the hangman’s last

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Stabbed for not Buying Drinks.

Stabbed

Fresh Young Fellow Gets Six Inches of Cold Steel at a Sporting Resort, Seattle, Wash.

A gay young fellow walked in a well known sporting resort, Seattle, Wash., recently, and when asked to buy drinks he said he didn’t have to. He had an arrangement with the proprietress of the place, and before he knew what was going on he was out in the street with a stab wound between the shoulder blades.

Reprinted from The National Police Gazette, February 18, 1899

 

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