Little Murders
City Attorney James Butler shot and killed a gambler known
as Seven Up Jim O’leary, at Ada Huntley’s house of ill-fame in St. Louis, Mo. At
4 o’clock the other morning.
Greed, jealousy, revenge, obsession – the motives of America’s gas-lit murders are universal and timeless. Yet their stories are tightly bound to a particular place and time; uniquely American, uniquely 19th Century.
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