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Curley Confesses.
(From Harrisburg Patriot, July 12, 1877).Curley Confesses.Miss Whitby’s Murder—The Result of a Bloodthirsty Impulse.The New York Herald publishes the following dispatch from Pottstown:“Thomas Frances...
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Sudden Death, Foul Suspicions.
Maria HendricksonSudden death seemed to be John Hendrickson’s constant companion. When his six-week-old baby died suddenly, it was viewed as a tragedy. When his father-in-law died suddenly in a farm...
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A Fiend's Work.
Birdie Baugh, the 20-year-old daughter of C. C. Baugh, was much admired in the town of Alliance, Ohio. She was “a handsome girl of pleasant, winsome ways,” and quite accomplished for an Ohio farmer’s...
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First Avenue Butchery.
Charles Jacobs, a 27-year-old German immigrant, ran a butcher shop at 262 First Avenue in New York City. His business was being hampered by loafers loitering on the sidewalk outside the shop. On...
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Murder by Little Girls.
(From Macon Weekly Telegraph, September 26, 1884).Murder by Little Girls.St. Louis, September 24. – The story from Ottawa, Kan., that on Monday last Carrie and Bessie Waterman, aged 12 and 11 years,...
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Baptized in Blood and Flames.
About four a.m. the morning of February 16, 1896, Robert Laughlin appeared at his sister’s door clad in his nightclothes and bleeding from the neck. He told a harrowing story, he had been awakened by...
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The Laws of Compensation.
John Dougherty, a sixty-year-old farmer in Big Bend, Washington, decided he needed a wife and in 1892, he placed an advertisement in a Chicago matrimonial paper. He received a response from Mary E....
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A Romantic Story.
(From New York Tribune, September 20, 1871)A Romantic Story.A man accused of murder proved innocent after death.Some workmen, digging holes for the posts of a fence, in Unionville, Westchester Co., a...
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Shot by Her Lover.
Jane Finlay was a young woman employed as a lady’s maid by the family of T.B. Stork, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, who had recently discarded her lover, William Dunlap. Dunlap went to the Stork house at...
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A Christmas Poisoning.
Mrs. Mary Paye.On Christmas Day, 1882, Captain David W. Paye lay dying with symptoms so severe and unusual that three physicians had been called to his home in Fishkill Landing, New York, to consult on...
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Murder by Wholesale.
Little Murders(From Portland Daily Press, December 25,1878)Murder by Wholesale.A Nebraska Man Confesses to Nine Murders.Cincinnati, Dec. 21—A special from Steubenville says that Stephen D. Richards,...
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The Squibb Family Murder.
Scene of the Squibb Family Murder.George Snelbaker went to the farm of his grandfather, George Squibb, to borrow an auger, the morning of June 18,1866, and found the old man lying face down on the...
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A Cleveland Axe Murder.
Frank and Eliza Florin of Cleveland, Ohio, had been married for sixteen years and had three children aged 8, 9 and 15. When sober, Frank worked steadily as a plasterer and lived peaceably with his...
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Margaret Howard.
Margaret Howard.Mrs. Lavinia Wolf, who ran a boardinghouse in Cincinnati, was working in the kitchen on the afternoon of February 2, 1849, when Mary Ellen Howard, one of her boarders rushed in from the...
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Williamsburg Stabbing Affray.
The night ended in a melee at Henry Shear’s lager-beer saloon in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on January 6, 1868, and Henry Shear himself was fatally stabbed. There were two versions of how...
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A Peculiar Affair.
Mrs. Fanny Bennett excitedly knocked on the door of Charles Bates, the morning of September 10, 1896. Mrs. Bennett, a widow who lived about a mile away in Troupsburg, New York, had come to tell him...
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A Newark Wife Murder.
John ChisholmLottie Chisholm left her husband John and, taking their two children, went to stay at her parents’ home in Newark, New Jersey. John had a history of abusing his wife and this time she...
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A Maniac's Deed.
For several weeks in November 1892, Herman Siegler had been depressed and melancholy. Siegler was a wood carver employed by Wolf Bros. of West Erie Street, Chicago and was known as a man of good...
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A Kentucky Courtship.
Tom Moore had been courting the daughter of Bud Reynolds, a well-known distiller of Prestonsburg, Kentucky, against the wishes of the old man. On October 29, 1896, Moore walked into town and told his...
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Professional Poisoners.
Dr. and Mrs. Henry Meyer used a dazzling array of aliases to stay one step ahead of detectives as they moved from city to city engaging in lethal insurance fraud. It was their livelihood; they were...
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