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Victims of a Mysterious Strangler.
Five women of New York have been murdered by a fiend. Their cases are similar to that of the woman whose body was found in the courtyard in the rear of the tenement at No. 27 Monroe Street. The police...
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The Kentucky Tragedy.
Jereboam Beauchamp stabbed Col. Solomon Sharp to avenge the honor of his wife, Anna Cooke Beauchamp. The story of the murder—known from the start as the Kentucky Tragedy—was viewed by the Beauchamps as...
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A Boy Shoots His Sweetheart and Himself.
Little Murders(From The National Police Gazette, October 16,1886) A Boy Shoots His Sweetheart and Himself.A Love-Sick Murderer.Eddie Clark, Eighteen Years of Age, Kills Melissa Fultz and then...
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Murder in San Francisco.
Murder in San Francisco. In response to the question, “Why cannot Murder be punished in San Francisco,” the Oakland Enquirer makes the following pertinent remarks:“One most important reason why it is...
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Harold Schechter's The Mad Sculptor.
Murder by Gaslight is pleased to be a stop on Harold Schechter’s The Mad Sculptor (Of True Crime) Blog Tour. The works of Harold Schechter have been a part of Murder by Gaslight from the beginning,...
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Verses from Beyond the Grave.
Thomas W. Piper killed Mabel Young two years after the death of poet Byron DeWolfe, so how was DeWolfe able to publish a poem about the murder? Read about the dead poet and Miss Lillie Darling, the...
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The Corn Field Murder.
Sarah Alexander, a seventeen-year-old Jewish immigrant from Poland, left her home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on December 12, 1875, to look for a job. She never returned. When she was still...
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19th Century Serial Killers.
There seems to be an ongoing debate on the question of who was America’s first serial killer. Often the names H. H. Holmes and the Bender Family are mentioned as the first, but both of these...
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The Webster Mystery.
Alice Hoyle had last seen her sister, Lillie the night of September 1, 1887 in the room they shared in Webster, Massachusetts. Lillie had left to use the outhouse and Alice fell asleep before she...
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The Land of Undiscovered Murders.
In the 1880s, the state of Connecticut experienced a rash of unrelated, unsolved murders which baffled local constabularies, amazed the nation, and amused neighboring New York City. In an era when...
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Fanaticism and Murder.
Little Murders(From The Wooster Republican, January 2, 1871) Fanaticism and Murder. The Cause of the Murder of the Family Near Dayton, O.Cincinnati, March 11. – Further particulars in regard to the...
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The School-girl Murder.
Mamie KellyFourteen-year-old Mamie Kelly of San Francisco, had a crush on the boy next door, nineteen-year-old Aleck Goldenson. Though Aleck was the kind of boy who appeals to teenaged girls—an artist...
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Guest Blogger: ExecutedToday
ExecutedToday.com has been posting an execution story every day since Halloween 2007 so it’s not surprising when they come up with a murder not covered by Murder by Gaslight. Here is the story of the...
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Elmer D. Morrill.
Little Murders:From Defenders and Offenders:Elmer D. Morrill.“In the early part of 1887, the good city of Lewiston, Maine, was thrown into considerable excitement by the discovery of a young woman dead...
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A Gambler Shot Dead.
Little Murders (From The National Police Gazette , January 13, 1894)A Gambler Shot Dead. City Attorney James Butler shot and killed a gambler known as Seven Up Jim O’leary, at Ada Huntley’s house of...
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Cain and Abel.
Hiram SawtellLike the Biblical brothers Cain and Abel, the Sawtell brothers of Boston took divergent paths through life. While Hiram settled down and raised a family, supported by his successful fruit...
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A Modern Macbeth Murder Case.
Little Murders(From New York Tribune, March 26, 1877) A Modern Macbeth Murder Case. An old man named Thomas J. Poyntz, living at Bay Shore, was found dead in a bed at the house of Nathaniel Evans,...
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Murder at Bloomingdale.
Harvey KeithWhile boating on Max Lake in Bloomingdale, Michigan in August 1885, Frank Lackey and his companions saw what they thought was a dead sheep floating in the water. Closer inspection revealed...
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John J. Delaney
Little Murders:From Defenders and Offenders:John J. Delaney."John J. Delaney is only 17 years of age and is a self-confessed murderer. On June 3d, 1887, Mary Jane Cox was found dead in the kitchen of...
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Getting Away With Murder.
American justice is largely fair and impartial, but it is not perfect; sometimes mistakes are made. It is always disturbing when an innocent person is unjustly punished, but it is far more common for a...
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