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Helena Mining Leader Found Dying Outside Hospital
In January 1909, a mysterious note lured a prominent Montana mining man into the cold darkness of a winter night. By dawn, he was dying…
Los Angeles Woman Found Murdered in Fifth-Floor Office
In September 1913, a quiet Los Angeles office became the scene of a brutal and puzzling murder. Mrs. Rebecca P. Gay, a religious practitioner and…
D.C. Children Warned Not to Drink From Horse Troughs
In the summer of 1907, Washington, D.C. officials faced a public health problem that seems almost unthinkable today: children drinking from horse troughs in the…
New York Gripped by Fear After Mutilated Woman Found at Staten Island
It was the summer of 1907, and New York was gripped by a series of horrifying discoveries that newspapers quickly tied together under the shadow…
Smallpox Strikes New York’s House of Refuge on Randalls Island
In the spring of 1894, fear of one of America’s most dreaded diseases swept through a New York institution housing hundreds of troubled boys. What…
Kansas Coal Miners Call for Strike When Company Threatens Fines for Failure to Work on Saturdays
It was the summer of 1920, and the coal fields of southeastern Kansas stood on the brink of another labor showdown. Less than a year…
Woman Tells NYC Judge to Send Her Sister to Jail
On a March morning in 1894, what appeared to be a routine drunkenness case in a New York courtroom took a rather dramatic turn. A…
Young Woman Takes Blame in Benton Harbor Slaying
In the summer of the Jazz Age, a sensational murder case unfolded in Michigan that seemed torn from the pages of a pulp novel. At…
Toronto Man Claims Responsibility for Mother’s Murder After the Father Hangs
In the summer of 1920, newspapers across North America carried a gut wrenching report from Canada: a young farmer named Arnell Love had confessed to…
Actress Rescued from Attack in Jersey City
Shortly after 2 o’clock on a March morning in 1894, frantic reports reached police in Jersey City that a woman was being attacked in a…
