Murder by Gaslight
Saturday, June 10, 2023

The Murder of Uri Carruth.

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  Charles Landis and Uri Carruth had been feuding for years. Landis founded the town of Vineland in 1861. It was a teetotaling community bui...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

Escape from the Death-House.

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The death-house of Sing Sing Prison, on the Hudson River in New York State, was a separate building attached to the south end of the main pr...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

With a Butcher’s Keen Blade.

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The night of April 30, 1892, Policeman McGrath of the Prince Street Station, New York City, heard cries of pain coming from Grand Street, tw...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Murderer Quickly Caught.

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In 1892, Frank Paulsen was a 55-year-old retired carpenter living off his Union Army pension. He lived alone in a rented room on Hester Stre...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Annie Harman and Ephraim Snyder.

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  Annie Harman (sometimes spelled "Herman") of York County, Pennsylvania attended a singing party in December 1878. The next morni...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

The Moody-Tolliver Feud.

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I am pleased to introduce this week’s guest blogger, Bob Moody, author of The Terror of Indiana: Brent Jones & The Moody-Tolliver Feud....
Saturday, April 29, 2023

The Murdered Congressman.

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The Honorable Cornelius S. Hamilton was the Congressional Representative of the Eighth District of Ohio. In December 1867, he received word ...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

The Dansville Poisoning Case.

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David J. Wood and his wife Rhoda lived happily in Dansville, New York until David's younger brother Isaac came to live with them. In 1...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

A Trunkful of Trouble.

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On November 24, 1883, Thomas Samson went to the home of his friends James and Rosa Ruddy, wheeling a huge trunk that he said was full of hou...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Cowardly and Unprovoked.

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The night of April 26, 1871, while stepping off a Manhattan horse-car, Avery Putnam was struck from behind and killed by William Foster wiel...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

A Husband's Vengeance.

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John Kolesko, a Slavonian laborer, met Lizzie Mattis in a small town in Hungary in 1884. Six weeks later, they married and sailed at once to...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

The Cruel Axe.

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  17-year-old James E. Nowlin murdered George Codman in a Massachusetts stable in January 1887. Then he took an axe and chopped Codman’s bod...
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Francis Colvin's Skull.

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In December 1873, the body of Francis A. Colvin was found floating i...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

Most Atrocious Murder.

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On February 2, 1846, Francis Adolphus Muir went to the home of his friend Captain William Dandridge Epes. Muir and Epes were two of Dinwiddi...
Saturday, March 4, 2023

The Colt-Adams Murder.

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The Murder of Samuel Adams by John C. Colt. An argu...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

Maria Bickford.

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Maria Bickford, a beautiful young prostitute, was found murdered in her room in Boston’s Beacon Hill. Her throat was slashed from ear to ear...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

An Affair of Blood and Mystery.

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Mrs. Amelia Berry (or Berri) was a German widow living in Jefferson City, Missouri. In 1864, her husband died, leaving her a sizable estate,...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Sarah Jane Gould.

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Everyone in Canton, New York, learned to distrust James E. Eldredge, except his fiancĂ©, Sarah Jane Gould.  Sarah Jane remained trusting till...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

Arson to Hide a Worse Crime.

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Lee Heflin ran to Thomas Robinson’s farm near Calverton, Virginia, on November 10, 1891, to raise an alarm that a house on a neighboring far...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

The Murderous Barker Brothers.

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The Baker Brothers of Bloomingdale, Michigan, suspected Harvey Keith of having adulterous relations with both of their wives. When they caug...
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