A rare edition of this illustrated guide to locks and safes, canvassing standard methods of lockpicking and promoting the “infallible” designs of celebrated locksmith and inventor Linus Yale, Jr., whose pioneering pin-tumbler design remains the global standard. The first of two chapters describes Linus Yale Jr.’s lock, bank door, and.....
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.....
A revised transcript of the murder trial of Lake Champlain smuggler Cyrus Dean in the sensational Black Snake Affair, which resulted in the first official use of capital punishment in the State of Vermont. The Black Snake Affair of 1808, as it came to be called, was a deadly clash.....
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 kiled not only Ketchum, but her husband, her son.....
An important account of the New York City draft riots and the efforts by the Metropolitan Police to quell them, including a precinct-by-precinct description of the riots, and praising numerous bureaus and individuals of the Police Department. “One of the first studies to appear on the riots”—Nevins. Dedicated to the.....