Report of the Trial of Mary Ann Wheeler, for the Murder of John M.W. Lace, Her Seducer
Title | Report of the Trial of Mary Ann Wheeler, for the Murder of John M.W. Lace, Her Seducer PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ann Wheeler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1853 |
Genre | Murder |
ISBN |
Historic Milwaukee Crimes: The Vengeful Seamstress, the Absconding Alderman and More
Title | Historic Milwaukee Crimes: The Vengeful Seamstress, the Absconding Alderman and More PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Swanson |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467150207 |
From the author of Lost Milwaukee comes an exploration of the criminal side of the Cream City. Milwaukee saw its share of violence as it transformed from frontier village to modern metropolis. The city was barely established when an argument over a bridge linking east and west was nearly settled with cannon fire. A local developer killed his estranged wife, severed her head, and burned it in the furnace of the apartment building he built. A wronged woman murdered her lover on a busy downtown street and was found innocent by a sympathetic jury. Another woman lethally poisoned her family and laughed about it in the press. From a robbery in which the bandits got away by stealing a streetcar to the attempted assassination of President Theodore Roosevelt, local historian Carl Swanson uncovers dramatic true stories of villainy and murder from Milwaukee's long-forgotten past.
Milwaukee Mayhem
Title | Milwaukee Mayhem PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew J. Prigge |
Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2015-10-05 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 0870207172 |
From murder and matchstick men to all-consuming fires, painted women, and Great Lakes disasters--and the wide-eyed public who could not help but gawk at it all--"Milwaukee Mayhem" uncovers the little-remembered and rarely told history of the underbelly of a Midwestern metropolis. "Milwaukee Mayhem" offers a new perspective on Milwaukee's early years, forgoing the major historical signposts found in traditional histories and focusing instead on the strange and brutal tales of mystery, vice, murder, and disaster that were born of the city's transformation from lakeside settlement to American metropolis. Author Matthew J. Prigge presents these stories as they were recounted to the public in the newspapers of the era, using the vivid and often grim language of the times to create an engaging and occasionally chilling narrative of a forgotten Milwaukee. Through his thoughtful introduction, Prigge gives the work context, eschewing assumptions about "simpler times" and highlighting the mayhem that the growth and rise of a city can bring about. These stories are the orphans of Milwaukee's history, too unusual to register in broad historic narratives, too strange to qualify as nostalgia, but nevertheless essential to our understanding of this American city.
Trial of Mary Moriarty, for the Murder of John Shehan, Her Seducer
Title | Trial of Mary Moriarty, for the Murder of John Shehan, Her Seducer PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Moriarty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1855* |
Genre | Trials (Murder) |
ISBN |
Milwaukee Magazine
Title | Milwaukee Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Milwaukee (Wis.) |
ISBN |
The Trial and Acquittal of Mary Moriarty, on the Charge of the Murder of John Shehan, Her Seducer
Title | The Trial and Acquittal of Mary Moriarty, on the Charge of the Murder of John Shehan, Her Seducer PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Moriarty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 41 |
Release | 1856 |
Genre | Trials (Murder) |
ISBN |
Report of the trial of E. W., for a rape committed on the body of B. Wheeler ... Second edition corrected
Title | Report of the trial of E. W., for a rape committed on the body of B. Wheeler ... Second edition corrected PDF eBook |
Author | Ephraim Wheeler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 1805 |
Genre | |
ISBN |