No. 714
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
August 30, 2025
alias: EVANS, JIMMIE THE KID
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Welcome to this week's Link Dump!The gang's all here!The Edenton Tea Party.The creatures that used to rule the earth.Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare.A man who went from rags to riches to the UK Parliament.The life of Gothic writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.A brief history of Pontefract Castle.The mysterious sound of an ancient theater.An "extraordinary" 3,000 year old mural.Sybilla, Queen
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Strange Company - 8/29/2025
Stop by this week as we explore what happened the week before the murders, Emma and Lizzie’s getaway to Fairhaven and New Bedford, and new imagery which will help to tell the story. The pears are almost ripe, August 4th is coming fast, and thoughts begin to turn to that house on Second Street once again. Follow us at https://www.facebook.com/lizziebordenwarpsandwefts/ !
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Lizzie Borden: Warps and Wefts - 7/26/2025
Soapy Smith STAR NotebookPage 22 - Original copy
1884Courtesy of Geri Murphy(Click image to enlarge)
oapy Smith's "STAR" notebook, 1883-84, St. Louis, San Francisco, Soapy arrested: Pages #22-23
This post is on page 22 and 23 of the "STAR" notebook. I am combining these two pages as they only account for a total of seven lines. They are not appearing to be a continuation of
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 8/27/2025
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
Daniel Van
Fossen and his wife hosted a dinner party for their extended family on January
8, 1885, at their home in East Liverpool, Ohio. Fourteen people were in
attendance, including members of the Van Fossen, McBane, and Collins families.
Coffee and Tea were served after the meal, and almost immediately, the coffee
drinkers complained of a burning, bitter sensation in their throats. Soon, they
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Murder By Gaslight - 8/30/2025
By the time Sicilian immigrant Michael Lanza founded his namesake restaurant in 1904, the location he chose on First Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets was shaping into a mini Little Italy. Across the Avenue on 11th Street was Veniero’s, the Italian bakery dating back to 1894. in 1908, specialty grocers Russo’s would open a […]
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Ephemeral New York - 8/25/2025
[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
The Bloody Century 2
Takes the reader back to 19th-century America in all its gory glory.
