State & Local
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Nelson Johnson [Johnson, Nelson]

8 The Painful Ride Down It was late afternoon in winter. The office was dark and still, save for one room. Hap Farley and his partner, Frank Ferry, were seated ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

New York receives the news of Fisk’s death with mixed emotions. Horace Greeley lectures Wall Street and America for having produced such a sorry specimen of humanity. “Fiction furnishes few ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Richard Rayner [Rayner, Richard]

On the morning of July 14, 1930, Frank Keaton, a disabled and unbalanced machinist, rose at dawn. He dressed hastily and headed downtown to City Hall where the banker Motley ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-10 | Author:Bernstein, Arnie [Bernstein, Arnie]

When Dean Sweet was found, he clearly was dead. No pulse. His crushed and broken body resembled an old rag doll torn and discarded beneath the wood, brick, plaster, and ...
( Category: Suicide March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-05 | Author:Douglas Perry

13 A Modest Little Housewife On Thursday, May 22, the bailiff in Judge William Lindsay’s courtroom said the words everyone had been waiting to hear: “Beulah Annan.” The defendant, her ...
( Category: Women in History March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-03-25 | Author:John Berendt [Berendt, John]

Chapter 15 CIVIC DUTY “Hell, I’d have shot Danny Hansford too,” said Dr. James C. Metts, the coroner of Chatham County. “This guy was just a badass. He scared Williams ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf | | 2003-01-01 | Author:Erik Larson & Tony Goldwyn [Larson, Erik & Goldwyn, Tony]

In April 1893 the citizens of Chicago elected Carter Henry Harrison to his fifth term. In preparation for the fair, he ordered two hundred barrels of whiskey, to be used ...
( Category: History of Books March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Steve Hodel

“Too much of a coward.” The note, tucked inside one of the shoes, read:To whom in may concern: I have waited for the police to capture me for the Black ...
( Category: Serial Killers March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Irene Pence [Pence, Irene]

The exercise had let John forget his problems temporarily, but now around ten, he was showered, shaved, and back in his office. Two days earlier, his probation officer, Debra Gibbs, ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-29 | Author:Harold Schechter

Signs of that change were everywhere—in the bouquets of flowers and gushing letters that arrived daily from female admirers; in the stares he drew from other prisoners whenever he stepped ...
( Category: Serial Killers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:H. W. Brands [Brands, H. W.]

New York receives the news of Fisk’s death with mixed emotions. Horace Greeley lectures Wall Street and America for having produced such a sorry specimen of humanity. “Fiction furnishes few ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:Josh Hoffner & Brian Skoloff [Hoffner, Josh & Skoloff, Brian]

Chapter 14 'No Jury Is Going To Convict Me' Chapter 14 “No Jury Is Going To Convict Me” ‘“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile/And cry ‘content’ to ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Harold Schechter [Schechter, Harold]

38 It was lucky for John that the jurors were prevented from seeing the newspapers. On Wednesday, January 26, a story appeared that cast his character in a highly unflattering ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-31 | Author:Steve Wozniak & Gina Smith [Wozniak, Steve & Smith, Gina]

Chapter 10 The Apple I I was never the kind of person who had the courage to raise his hand during the Homebrew main meeting and say, “Hey, look at ...
( Category: Business March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:E.B. White [White, E.B.]

The Consolidated Edison Company says there are eight million people in the five boroughs of New York, and the company is in a position to know. Of these eight million, ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )