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Unhappy Returns.
Shale Smith returned from two days away from his home near Pineville, Kentucky on September 14,1896, to find his wife conversing with his neighbor Jake Luttel. Smith entered the room and demanded to...
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A Murder Committed Three Years Ago.
(From Baltimore Sun,March 24, 1882)A Murder Committed Three Years Ago—A Dying Woman’s ConfessionNorfolk, March 23,— About three years ago the dead body of a stranger, on which was found a card with the...
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The Fort Monroe Tragedy.
Fort MonroeIn June 1891, two young men from Washington D.C., Edward A. “Ned” Hannegan and Thornton J. “Tony” Hains, traveled to Fort Monroe on the Virginia Peninsula for a few days of recreation. They...
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Waldron Woods Mystery.
Two boys looking for chestnuts in Waldron Woods near Astoria, Long Island, found the body of a man lying dead with a wound on the right side of his head on October 10, 1866. Three men hunting in the...
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The Thirtieth Street Murder.
Residents of West 30th Street, New York City, were startled on the night of October 26, 1858, by the cries of Elizabeth Carr, a savant of the Gouldy family as she ran from the house in her...
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The Confessions of Mickey Sliney.
Frank Hronister, the butcher boy at Lyons’s butcher shop on Cherry Street in New York City, wasworking in the rear of the store on November 25, 1891, when Michael Sliney entered the store to speak with...
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Girl Killed in Elevator, A Mystery.
(From New York American, January 3, 1898.)Girl Killed in Elevator, A Mystery.Engineer Farrell Can’t Explain the Strange Facts, and is Held.RECALLS SMITH MURDER.Janitor Titus Is Now Serving a Life...
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Disorder in Court.
Henry Miller went to the home of his doctor, Zachariah Walker, in Brownsburg, Virginia, to pick up some medicine on Wednesday, November 13, 1889. Dr. Walker was under the weather and could not see...
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The Annie Dorman Mystery.
John Dorman left the farmhouse to work in his fields at about 1:15, the afternoon of September 1, 1897. His wife, Lizzie, had some banking to take care of and left for Philadelphia at about 2:00. As...
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Rum, Jealousy and Murder.
George Widman and Thomas Brownlee accompanied a young lady name Miss Norris on an excursion up the Hudson River from Yonkers, New York to Newberg, aboard the steamer Grand Republic on Sunday, October...
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The Mysterious Murder of William Wilson.
Major William C. Wilson was a dealer in old manuscripts and proprietor of Wilson’s Circulating Library on Walnut Street in Philadelphia. He had fought in the Civil war with the 104th New York Infantry...
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The Brooklyn Murderess.
When William W. Place’s first wife died, he was anxious to remarry, looking for a mature woman who was a good housekeeper and most importantly could take care of his young daughter, Ida. In 1893, he...
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A Most Horrible Affair.
A report from Vicksburg, Mississippi stated that William Montgomery, a citizen of Harrison County, Indiana, was murdered in Vicksburg around the first of August, 1867. His body was found in the Yazoo...
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A Murder in Pantomime.
Lizzie Lochner returned home from a night on the town sometime after midnight the morning of June 2, 1894. Her husband Joseph, who stayed home with the children—4-year-old Rosa and her infant brother—...
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Where is Alice Sterling?
Mrs. Alice Sterling of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, traveled to Everett, Massachusetts the morning of Wednesday, April 10, 1895, leaving her daughter Alice in the charge of her husband George...
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Miser Henry’s Murder.
Charles W. Henry was a cruel and heartless miser. In 1895 he was 70-years-old, living in Brooklyn with his wife and 39-year-old son William. Though Henry was a wealthy man, he kept his family in a...
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The Stillwell Murder.
Amos and Fannie Stillwell returned home from a party at a neighbor’s house on December 29, 1889. It was a small gathering of Hannibal, Missouri’s high society and the Stillwells were among the...
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Righteous Retribution.
Shortly after the Civil War, Christian Meiar secured a questionable title to a farm in Ripley County, Ohio and moved there with his wife. The farm was located outside of Elrod, a town so small and...
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Did Ida Do It?
Mrs. Ida Quinlan and her 9-year-old son Johnny went out to buy a pair of stockings at around 9:00 the night of February 1, 1896, leaving her baby in the care of her sister, Mrs. Sophia Grant. They took...
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The Act of a Mad Man.
Mrs. Emma Marrs and her sister-in-law, Ida Marrs, were preparing breakfast the morning of February 13, 1897, in their home at 129 South Upper Street, Lexington, Kentucky. Around 7:45 Mrs. Marrs sent...
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