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 January.....
The official account of the trial of the Jefferson Borden mutineers, held in the Circuit Court of the United States, District of Massachusetts. In the spring of 1875, the vessel Jefferson Borden—built on the Kennebunk River in Maine—departed from New Orleans and was making way for London under the command.....
The official report on the first of two trials of Sarah Jane Robinson, the “Massachusetts Borgia,” who murdered her landlord and seven of her own family members, with a brazen letter from the murderer herself to Massachusetts Justice Waldbridge A. Field, requesting a private meeting. After the death of her.....
An account of the trial of the notorious Elizabeth Wharton of Baltimore for the murder of W. S. Ketchum. A socially prominent woman who went on a poisoning spree and was dubbed “the Baltimore Borgia” by the New York Sun, Wharton’s victims included Ketchum, her husband, her son, and likely.....
A rare account of a rehabilitation home for ex-convicts in Meiji Japan, run by a prominent Japanese businessman who became the first Christian bookseller and publisher in Japan. Benjamin Chappell, author of this account of Taneaki Hara’s Tokyo Home for Ex-Convicts, credits Hara for much of the present work’s.....
Rare first edition of this account of the seizure of a statuette of Narcissus from an art shop in New Bedford, which sparked widespread debate about art and obscenity during the height of the 1870s’ “moral panic.” In 1873, Charles Hazeltine, a New Bedford art and music dealer, placed in.....
On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke Academy staff notified her family, a search party was assembled. That night the party found her decapitated and violated body in the woods near the school and discovered her head.....
Scarce account of the life of an infamous Pennsylvania criminal who dodged the law for years and purportedly wrote these stories on his deathbed in jail. David Lewis, known as "Davy" or "Robber" Lewis (1790–1820), became known as the "Robin Hood of Pennsylvania" for his brand of crime. Born in.....
The scarce and remarkable autobiography of a depression-era bandit who was made into a folk hero by the song “Otto Wood The Bandit,” first recorded by the Carolina Buddies in 1930 and later by Doc Watson and others. A lifelong criminal, Otto Wood wrote this thirty-two page narrative to set.....