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Criminal Encores

Jenny Diver a.k.a. Mary Young ~ Irish Pickpocket
Alice Maud Hartley ~ Slayer of Nevada Senator Murray D. Foley
H. H. Holmes ~ 18th Century Serial Killer
Celestina Sommer ~ The Islington Murderess

Dancing with Death

A Man Burns Himself to Death
Attempt of a Young Lady to Commit Suicide 
A Young Lady Shot by Her Lover
Faithful Pastor Struck by Lightening
Remembering Boston's Deadly Molasses Flood: 100 Years Later

For the Ladies

Plucky Woman ~ Dr. Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck (1860)

Games of Chance

New Market Races

Ghostly Encounters

Five Historic Hauntings

Here Comes the Judge

$20,000 Embezzeled ~Pastor Riemus
Execution of a Murder ~ Daniel Clifford
Fraud on Females 
Mysterious Murder in Pittsburg

Libations

18th Century Craze for Gin

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A Bit of Olde English Slang
Americanisms

Love Can Be Deadly

Stabbed to Death in Office Frolic

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Reasons for Admission to the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
The Subtlety of Poisons (Arsenic)

Military Mayhem

More Trouble in Kansas (1860)

Seaworthy Stories

Nautical Mystery

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Narrow Escape
Derailment of The Duquesne Limited Passenger Train - Connellsville, PA
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