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Thirty-six years before Judge began, George Wilkes and Enoch Camp established in Manhattan the National Police Gazette. Purpose: "To assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of felons' names, aliases and persons," offering "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold...
If Booth Had Missed? Playwright Arthur Goodman has chosen to imagine that a Negro porter knocked up John Wilkes Booth's arm just as he entered the Ford's Theatre box to shoot Abraham Lincoln.? Thereafter Honest Abe is beset by venomous political intrigue, chief movers in which are...
Mayor General Lytle Brown, Chief of Army Engineers, investigated contract labor camps in the Vicksburg area, last fortnight reported to Secretary of War Hurley that no "slavery in its most hideous form" existed there, as alleged by the A. F. of L. Here and there he did find "bad spots...
Last week in Chicago six physicians, including Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen and Dr. Edward Miloslavich, Milwaukee pathologist, gathered in the offices of Dr. Orlando Scott to examine the mummified remains of one John St. Helen. They thumped it, felt it. x-rayed it. Then they gravely nodded their heads and...
*John M. Fry who directed the party which cornered John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia barn twelve days after he had shot President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, died last week in Seward, 111. Detective Ireland of the U. S. Secret Service seized Leon F. Czolgosz by the left arm...