An account of the infamous Northampton heist; the robbers' treatment of their captives; how they escaped; the losses endured by the bank, etc., complete with a floor plan of the house of the cashier Whittelsey, who was held captive. Dubbed the "greatest burglary on record," on the morning of...
A rare compendium of biographies of notorious counterfeiters, sourced from official documents of the U.S. Treasury Dept. Among those profiled are Charles F. Ulrich, the “Box Cutter”; Thos. Ballard, “The Prince of Coney Men”; Fred Biebusch, “The Invulnerable”; Nelson Driggs, “The Sexagenarian Crook”; and so on. Henry C. Cole.....
A poetic eulogy for the murdered student Josie Langmaid, also relating the circumstances of her horrific death as well as a description of the public memorial created for her. On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke...