Murder by Gaslight
Saturday, June 9, 2018

A Hidden Skeleton.

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Barton Russell and his wife were digging for ginseng in Deer Lick Hollow, half a mile north of Mooresburg, Tennessee the evening of Octob...
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Saturday, May 26, 2018

A Grave-Robber’s Fate.

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Dr. Henry W. Kendall was found in the graveyard of the Onondaga County Poorhouse with a bullet hole between his eyes the morning ...
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Saturday, May 19, 2018

Who Shot “Tonce” Joy?

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Fireman Doherty was on duty at the 3rd Street engine-house in Cincinnati in the early hours of Monday, November 30, 1896. A little after ...
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Saturday, May 5, 2018

A Wronged Husband's Revenge.

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M. F. Boyd, the Tax Receiver of Floyd County, Georgia, suspected his wife of infidelity and had a plan to catch her in the act. On Octo...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

The Brown Tragedy.

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Mary A. Brown A wholesale robbery operation was uncovered outside of Irvington, Indiana, four miles east of Indianapolis. In January ...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

A Moment of Agony.

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Albert E. Hauntstine had been a fugitive for nearly two weeks before being apprehended on November 22, 1888, in Columbus, Nebraska, by Pl...
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Saturday, April 7, 2018

“I Have Shot My Husband.”

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An attractive young woman checked into the Paxton Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, just before eight o’clock the morning of November 17, 18...
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Saturday, March 31, 2018

A Mysterious Murder.

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                                             The body of an unknown man with a gunshot wound to the head was found on the corner of 100t...
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Saturday, March 24, 2018

Massachusetts Butchery.

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Two young boys walking down a road in Lexington, Massachusetts, on January 4, 1887, found a bloody shirt atop a stone wall by the side of...
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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Murder Quickly Avenged.

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George Lear, an ex-prize fighter living in Altman, Colorado, had a bone to pick with Irene Good, a pretty barmaid at the Branch Saloon on...
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Saturday, March 10, 2018

A Duel in the Bedroom.

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Will Shinall ran a small store and bar in Hackletown, Georgia, a suburb of Augusta. In the backrooms of the store, he resided with his wife...
Sunday, March 4, 2018

Professional Poisoners.

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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 engag...
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Saturday, February 24, 2018

A Kentucky Courtship.

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Tom Moore had been courting the daughter of Bud Reynolds, a well-known distiller of Prestonsburg, Kentucky, against the wishes of the o...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

A Maniac's Deed.

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For several weeks in November 1892, Herman Siegler had been depressed and melancholy. Siegler was a wood carver employed by Wolf Bros. of...
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Saturday, February 10, 2018

A Newark Wife Murder.

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John Chisholm Lottie Chisholm left her husband John and, taking their two children, went to stay at her parents’ home in Newark, New Je...
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Saturday, February 3, 2018

A Peculiar Affair.

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Mrs. Fanny Bennett excitedly knocked on the door of Charles Bates, the morning of September 10, 1896. Mrs. Bennett, a widow who lived abo...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Williamsburg Stabbing Affray.

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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 She...
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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Margaret Howard.

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Margaret Howard. Mrs. Lavinia Wolf, who ran a boardinghouse in Cincinnati, was working in the kitchen on the afternoon of February 2,...
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Saturday, January 13, 2018

A Cleveland Axe Murder.

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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 ...
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Saturday, January 6, 2018

The Squibb Family Murder.

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Scene of the Squibb Family Murder. George Snelbaker went to the farm of his grandfather, George Squibb, to borrow an auger, the morni...
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