Tag: 1900-1919
The Most Miraculous Execution in American History (That Nobody Told You About), 1904
Dedicated to Bela Deraj who told me to get back to work! 🙂 This is a story I have wanted to write for a long time. Over the last twenty-years, I have become convinced that the internet is 10-percent original, and the rest is just a copy. Case in point: When it comes to […]
Posted: September 17th, 2021 under Feature Stories.
Tags: 1900-1919, bizarre, Execution, Ohio
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Vintage Detective Story: Mrs. Evelyn Romadka’s Scandalous Downfall, 1907
Story Summary: The high-society wife of a millionaire trunk manufacturer undergoes an unspecified operation, which alters her personality (or so it is claimed). In 1907 she runs away to Chicago where she falls in love with a black man. To keep him happy, she works as a maid for a string of wealthy Chicago families. […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2017 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1900-1919, Love Triangle, Petty Crimes, Vintage Detective Stories, Women
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Vintage Detective Story: The Stackhouse Case, 1916
Story by A. ANDERSON (Private Detective), Principal Southern Detective Agency, Tampa, Florida, (formerly with Scotland Yard, London, England), and, Dalton O’Sullivan, Detective and Author of Enemies of the Underworld, 1917. Early in April of the year 1916, I was summoned to Boca Grande by the president of the C. H. & N. railroad. The […]
Posted: August 8th, 2017 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1900-1919, Florida, Vintage Detective Stories
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Vintage Detective Story: The Conviction of ‘Omaha Billy,’ 1903
Story by Tom F. Callaghan, Chief of Detectives, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Dalton O’Sullivan, Detective and Author of Enemies of the Underworld, 1917 Bert Forney was proprietor of a saloon, 1028 West Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was not a quarrelsome man, but was a man of more than ordinary nerve, and one who […]
Posted: July 6th, 2017 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1900-1919, Iowa, Robbery & Murder, Vintage Detective Stories
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Criminal Slang Dictionary for 1890 to 1919
890 Words & Phrases used by Criminals
In 1910, if someone said they were “blowing the peter,” — it’s not what you’re thinking. From approximately 1890 to 1919, that term meant they were going to the door off a safe to rob it, and the person doing it was called “a yeggman,” slang for safe robber. If someone said they wanted to […]
Posted: June 27th, 2017 under Uncategorized.
Tags: 1800s, 1900-1919
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The Chinatown Trunk Murder: Christian Missionary’s Love Triangle has Fatal Consequence, 1909
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Posted: June 16th, 2017 under Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1900-1919, Love and Jealousy, Love Triangle, Murder, New York, unsolved, Women
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Mug Shot Monday! Emma LeDoux, Housewife, Prostitute, Bigamist, Murderer
Emma Head was born near Jackson, Amador County, California, where her parents were in comfortable circumstances. While quite young, she married a man named Barrett, but after living with him a short time in Fresno, Cal., a divorce was granted, and she then married a man named Williams, with whom she went to Arizona. […]
Posted: April 24th, 2017 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1900-1919, California, Love Triangle, Murder, Women
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The Mysterious Murder of 15 year-old Nora Fuller, 1902
Introduction: On January 11, 1902, fifteen-year-old Nora Fuller disappeared after she left her home. She told her single mother of three that she was going to meet with a man about a job as a nanny after she found his advertisement in the local newspaper. She didn’t come home that night or the next, and […]
Posted: November 10th, 2016 under Feature Stories.
Tags: 1900-1919, California, Juvenile, Murder, Mystery, Sex Crimes, unsolved
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Mug Shot Monday! Azel D. Galbraith, 1904
Azel D. Galbraith Between the years of 1898 and 1904, Azel D. Galbraith was working his way up the ladder in Colorado’s mining industry as a bookkeeper and manager. He was held in high esteem and his name occasionally appeared in Colorado newspapers. Although he was married with a young son, his success went to […]
Posted: July 18th, 2016 under Mug Shot Monday, Short Feature Story.
Tags: 1900-1919, Colorado, Filicide, Love Triangle, Wife Killer
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Photo Gallery of NYC Murder Victims, 1915-1920
Warning: Gallery contains very graphic photos. The New York City Department of Records has a great collection of photographs related to all things early 20th Century New York City. Among their different categories are photographs related to crime, criminals, criminal identification, and most interesting of all, Murder—as in dead bodies. During the early 20th Century, […]
Posted: July 1st, 2016 under Rediscovered Crime News.
Tags: 1900-1919, Love and Jealousy, Murder, New York
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