Showing posts with label escape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label escape. Show all posts
Sunday, May 11, 2008

Shot at Miss Abbott

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New York, 1895 Miss Annie Abbott, who lives with her widowed mother in Farmingdale, had a narrow escape from injury Friday evening. She took...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Arresting Three Bears

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1916 A great fondness for sweet things not long ago spoiled the vacation plans of three bad bears, who were touring the western coast with t...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Small Lads Confess Murder

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1916 Brothers, Aged 11 and 12, Rob and Shoot a Teacher. BOISE, Idaho. — Lynn and Harold Lovelace, brothers 11 and 12 years old, have confess...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Insane Man Clings to His Blind Wife

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1919 WILL BE RELEASED FROM ASYLUM TO JOIN HER. Love Keeps Sightless Girl and Mad Husband Together Despite Obstacles Imposed. NEW ORLEANS, La...
Saturday, April 5, 2008

Rats Lured Into Traps by Rodent Leader Who Acts as "Pied Piper"

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1919 SHERMAN, Texas. — Sherman's Pied Piper, an aged, bewhiskered and tailless rodent, is no more. A frisky terrier, unaware of the impo...
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Bold Pirates Attack Ships Near Mexico

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1920 Modern Red Rovers Recall Days of Captain Kidd — U. S. May Act to End Ravages Buccaneers and pirates are swarming in the Pacific off the...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

A Leaky Reservoir — What NOT To Do When Fishing

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1900 How the Heart of the Disciple of Izaak Walton Was Saddened "These gloomy days," said an old citizen, "recall a gloomy da...

Slain By Naked Maniac

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Iowa, 1900 James Fitzsimmons Dead, Three Others Injured Cedar Rapids dispatch: Charles Mefford, a maniac, at 5 o'clock a.m. killed James...
Monday, June 11, 2007

She Stops Traffic To Light Her "Fag"

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March 1920 KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Street car traffic on a busy street was tied up while a young woman smoked a cigarette. It wouldn't h...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Crime Time — Burglary, Reckless Riding, A Mysterious Call

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Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1908 BURGLAR WAS A JACK-IN-BOX Leaps Through Trap Door and Scares Servant Girl Startled by seeing a man jump through t...
Monday, May 14, 2007

Decatur Doctor Caught Digging Up Negro Cadaver

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Illinois, 1879 BODY SNATCHING. A Decatur Doctor After a Negro Cadaver His Operations Brought to a Sudden Conclusion. The Decaturites are all...
Monday, May 7, 2007

The Fall of Miss Minnie B. Werner, Chicago, 1916

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1916 Girl Will Live CHICAGO, Jan. 25. — St. Luke hospital attendants announced today that Miss Minnie Werner, the stenographer who yesterday...
Thursday, May 3, 2007

She's Worth $1,000 a Pound

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1909 She's Worth $1,000 a Lb. PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Because she was jilted and lost twenty-five pounds weight in consequence, Miss Luella Lo...
Monday, April 30, 2007

Breaks From Jail; His 180th Escape

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1920 Notorious Roy Dickerson Is Again At Large Alleged Ring Leader of Gang Which Looted Bank at Girard, Ala., Defies Prison Bars LOS ANGELES...

Housemaid Stabbed by Enraged Suitor

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1920 Assault Follows Her Refusal to Attend Movie Show BOSTON, Mass. — Agnes Logan, 24, a maid in the home of A. Glouchester Armstrong, Back ...
Sunday, April 22, 2007

Highwayman, Dressed as Woman, Aids in Hold-Up

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Washington, D.C., 1913 Two highwaymen, one attired as a stylish young woman, held up John McLain of 1108 Florida Northeast, he told the poli...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

Resourceful Prisoner, 'Jumbo' Carlson, Escapes Moline Jail

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Rock Island County, Illinois, 1903 PLANS HIS ESCAPE FROM JAIL BUT IS CAPTURED While Incarcerated In the Rock Island County Jail He Makes a K...

Dr. Livingstone's Ordeal — Attacked By A Crazed Lion

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1895 Incident of One of Dr. Livingstone's Exploring Expeditions In Africa One of the most famous encounters with a lion, from which the ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Hoboes Start "Wild West"; Capture Train

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1920 Hoboes Start "Wild West" Deputies Have Exciting Chase After Seven Tramps Who Refuse to Pay Fare LOS ANGELES, Neb. 25.—After a...

Undertaker Locked in Tomb With Many Corpses

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1920 Locked in Tomb With Many Corpses, Undertaker Has Thrilling Half Hour MILFORD, Mass. — Locked in a tomb with a score of corpses about, i...