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Early American Criminals: The Wicked Oath of Patience Boston

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Native-American servant Patience Boston developed, in her words, “some groundless Prejudice” against her new master, so she tried to come up with ways to take action against him. She thought about poisoning his food, but she did not have access to a toxin that would kill him. She tried to burn down his barn, […]

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Early American Criminals: Jeremiah Meacham’s Tortured Soul

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The “Enemies of Souls” had clearly taken control of Jeremiah Meacham in March of 1715. Meacham visibly possessed a troubled conscience and walked around in deep reflection. He became paranoid. He believed that all of his neighbors looked oddly at him, and he feared that somebody somewhere was out to kill him. He woke up […]

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In the Media: An Interview with the Author/Publisher of The National Night Stick

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Robert Wilhelm, the author and publisher of the excellent Murder by Gaslight blog has just launched a new website called The National Night Stick. Readers of crime on the Web have come to expect engaging tales of 19th-century murder and mayhem on Murder by Gaslight, and The National Night Stick promises to follow in this […]

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EAC Reviews: American Homicide by Randolph Roth

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

American Homicide by Randolph Roth (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009), 655 pp. In American Homicide, Randolph Roth attempts to use the massive amount of historical data that he and his colleagues have assembled for the Historical Violence Database to explain patterns in the murder rate over broad historical time periods. […]

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Early American Criminals: Matthew Cushing, the First Celebrity Burglar

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

All of you who read these Lines may see The sad and dire Effects of Sin: Therefore if Sinners still you’l be, Leave off to read ere you begin. (from A Few Lines) These lines form the opening of A Few Lines upon the Awful Execution of John Ormesby & Matthew Cushing, one of two […]

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