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The Terrible Tragedy at Uniontown.
Illustrated Police News, January 13, 1883. Nicholas L. Dukes of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, was outraged to learn that his fiancée, Lizzie Nutt, had been intimate with other men. Instead of confronting...
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With Hell in Their Hearts.
New Book!With Hell in Their Hearts:The Taylor Boys and the Little Girl Who Livedby Charles Huddleston This is one of the most stirring and remarkable true crime stories in the history of America. From...
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Bloody Butchery.
Robert Kever and William Lowman were walking together on Mississippi Street in Indianapolis around 10:00 the night of January 15, 1880. Without warning, a man jumped from behind a tree and plunged a...
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Innocent Man in a Felon's Cell.
In the winter of 1877, Captain Luther Meservey went to sea, leaving his wife Sarah alone in their home in the village of Tenant’s Harbor, Maine. When Sarah was found strangled in her own home, the...
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Shot by a Prodigal Son.
Foully slain by his scapegrace son -- Emanuel Breist meets a terrible fate at Kikngerstown, Pa.Emanuel Breist was one of the wealthiest farmers in Mahantongo Valley, Pennsylvania. He had four daughters...
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Zora Burns.
Illustrated Police News, Nov. 10, 1883.Zora Burns was a beautiful and captivating young woman with “…abundant hair of yellow-golden tint clustered about features as perfectly regular as those which...
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Kitty Mulcahey's Fury.
National Police Gazette, January 14, 1882.In January 1882, Kitty Mulcahey was jailed in St. Louis for the murder of Alfred Tonkin. Kitty was a prostitute who said Tonkin had offered her two dollars and...
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Mother and Son Murderers.
A driverless horse and wagon wandered aimlessly in the prairie between Fort Gibson and Tahlequah in Indian Territory on December 3, 1883. Jim Merrill heard the wagon come up to his front gate and went...
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Mary and Oscar.
Mary Barrows and Oscar Blaney.Illustrated Police News, May 9, 1885,In 1883, Mary Barrows of Kittery, Maine, persuaded her son-in-law, Oscar Blaney, to murder her husband, Thomas Barrows. Mary had been...
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An Illustrated Encyclopedia: The 1891 Murder Of Carrie Brown.
An Illustrated Encyclopedia: The 1891 Murder Of Carrie Brown, a new book by Howard and Nina Brown of JTRForums.com, is a comprehensive summary of the people, places, and things associated with one of...
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The Hill's Grove Mystery.
Two days after her disappearance, search parties formed to look for any trace of Emma between Hill’s Grove and Pontiac. They focused on the river and ponds in the area, fearing that she may have fallen...
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Miss Tobin's Mysterious Death.
National Police Gazette, June 1, 1889.On May 12, 1889, the janitor of the Clifton Boat Club on Staten Island found the body of a young woman floating in the water. Though badly decomposed, Dr. S.A....
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Shot Down in Court.
Police Officers Farson and Conway were patrolling the neighborhood of Orleans and Washinton Streets in Memphis, Tennessee, on the night of April 28, 1890, when they heard a cry of,” Help! Murder!” They...
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Parting from Her Doomed Lover.
National Police Gazette, December 29, 1888.Franklin Asbury Hawkins murdered his mother on October 29, 1887, and dumped her body, beaten and shot, by the side of the road in Islip, Long Island....
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Liquor and Free Love.
As Police Officers Henry Johnson and Eli Veazie were leaving the Chelsea, Massachusetts City Marshal’s office on the evening of February 17, 1872, they were approached by a man, intoxicated and in a...
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Views of the Fisk Assassination.
James Fisk Jr. was a robber baron, stock manipulator, and financial fraudster. In spite of this, he was a popular, much-loved public figure. On January 6, 1872, he was assassinated on the staircase of...
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A Honeymoon Tragedy.
Around 3:00, on the afternoon of June 15, 1886, a bellboy heard gunshots while responding to a prolonged ring from room 25 on the second floor of the Sturtevant House in New York City. No one answered...
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Some Very Cold Cases.
In 2014, Murder by Gaslight posted Unsolved, a collection of 19th-century murders that had never been fully explained. The list included some famous cases, including the murders of Andrew and Abby...
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The Prince Street Murder.
Bertha Levy entered the house at 111 Prince Street, Manhattan, just before 10:00 a.m. on January 18, 1880. She was a hairdresser, and she had an appointment with Annie Downey, who lived on the second...
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Was Abbott Innocent?
Illustrated Police News, February 28, 1885.Joseph Crue returned from work to his home in Groton, Massachusetts, on January 18, 1880, and found his wife, Maria, lying dead in the bedroom. She had been...
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The Harris-Burroughs Affair.
A young woman entered the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. on the afternoon of January 30, 1865. She went to the office of the Comptroller of the Currency and opened the door just enough to peek...
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Life, Crimes, and Conviction of Lydia Sherman.
When the press learned that Lydia Sherman had poisoned three husbands and eight children, they called her “The Arch Murderess of Connecticut,” “The Modern Borgia,” and “The Poison Fiend.”Read the full...
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The Acquital of Joseph A. Blair.
Joseph Blair of Montclair, New Jersey, had a vicious argument with his coachman, John Armstrong, on June 26, 1879. Blair was angry that someone had seen his wagon in front of a beer saloon, and he went...
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For Love of His Landlady.
Benjamin and Mary Merrill lived with their four-year-old son on Illinois Street in Chicago, where they ran a boarding house. During the day, Benjamin worked as a broker, and Mary took care of the house...
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The Mysterious Murder.
A boatman working near the foot of Little Street in Brooklyn, on October 3, 1864, saw a package floating on the water. Thinking it might contain something of value, he took it into his boat. He...
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