No. 575
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
May 11, 2021

A Terrible Punishment.

A father revenges an outrage on his daughter by pulling the wretch asunder; near Junction City, Kansas.
May 11, 2021
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Tag: Cincinnati

Burning of Steamers at Cincinnati.

Burning of Steamers on the Ohio River at Cincinnati May 17, 1869.

9/17/2018

Whipped for Alleged Slander.

Actress Dorothy Morton cowhided in Heucks’ Theatre, Cincinnati, by irate chorus girls.

9/4/2017

Why She Pummeled Him.

A Cincinnati woman gets up a lively street sensation by vigorously thrashing a man on the sidewalk, and explains to the crowd that he was her runaway husband, whom she had industriously sought for that sole purpose.

4/17/2017

A Triangular Fight.

9/19/2016

Pretty Mary Nelson’s Downfall.

Wine suppers, fine dresses and rolls of greenbacks cause a young and fascinating Cincinnati girl to cast aside the mantle of virtue.

8/29/2016

His Peep Ends Disastrously.

William Peters, a Cincinnati dude, tries to mash Maggie Bolton but gets mashed instead.

8/15/2016

Did the Naughty Midway Dance

Pretty Ida Lawrence gets arrested while entertaining some hackmen in Cincinnati, O.

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Amateur Photography. | His Mouth Full of Ivory.

A Terrible Punishment.

Torn Asunder

A father revenges an outrage on his daughter by pulling the wretch asunder near Junction City, Kansas

B. Robinson, a horse thief and rapist, was treated in a way that should strike terror to the hearts of individuals of his stripe. He committed an outrage on a little German girl, and was caught by her father, who fastened him by one arm to a tree and hitched his horse to the other and pulled Robinson apart. The poor wretch died in about twenty minutes.

 

National Police Gazette, December 4, 1880