Wednesday, October 27, 2010
billy noodle – 1. “a soft fellow that believes the girls are all in love with himâ€; 2. a ladykiller; 3. a conceited ass. Sources Farmer, John S. and W. E. Henley. A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English. Abridged from Slang and Its Analogues. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1912. Matsell, George W. Vocabulum: […]
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
[display_podcast] Stephen Smith was born a slave in 1769 in Virginia. His last name was originally Allen, but he changed it to Smith in order to escape from the master who owned him, William Allen. Smith’s father was a religious man, but his mother encouraged him to steal. With her prompting, Smith committed several small […]
Filed in Criminals
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Tagged Burglary, Canada, Execution, Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, Punishment, Running Away, Shoplifting, Theft, Virginia, West Indies
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
[display_podcast] On Friday, December 4, 1789, William Mooney Fitzgerald and John Clark were scheduled to appear before the court in St. John, New Brunswick. They were to learn their sentence after being tried and found guilty of burglary the day before. That morning, Rev. Charles William Milton entered their prison cell and later wrote that […]
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Tagged Animal theft, Burglary, Canada, Convict Transportation, Counterfeiting, Execution, Imprisonment, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Punishment, Rape, Robbery, Shoplifting, Theft
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
[display_podcast] Note: This post continues “Thomas Mount’s Crime Tips.†Long before Nicholas Pileggi wrote Wiseguy and revealed the inner-workings of present-day organized crime, Thomas Mount in 1791 disclosed the secrets of the Flash Company, a gang of burglars, thieves, and highwaymen. As a part of his revelations, Mount asked that the language and songs of […]
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Tagged Burglary, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Organized crime, Pennsylvania, Pickpocketing, Prisons and Jails, Punishment, Rhode Island, Robbery, South Carolina
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