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March 24, 2025 46 mins
On Today’s episode, Genevieve will have a deathbed confession, the accidental death of a horse fancier, a horrific elevator accident, a horrific mowing machine accident, naughty picture book advertisements, a butchered brother in law, a case of Victorian cat fishing, a hairbreadth escape, and more! References for today’s episode: “The Avondale Horror. A Deathbed Confession” - The Illustrated Police News, November 30, 1871. “A Bottle of Horse Medicine Kills a Horse Fancier” - The Illustrated Police News, December 21, 1871. “A Chambermaid Crushed by an Elevator” - The Illustrated Police News, December 14, 1871. “A Man Butchers his Brother In Law in Tippecanoe, Ohio - Tragical Result of a Whisky Quarrel” - The Illustrated Police News, November 9th, 1871. “Marrying By a Photographic Proxy - An innocent Nebraskan Ensnared by a Touched-Up Picture” - The Illustrated Police News, December 28, 1871. “A Truly Terrible Death - A mowing machine Literally Slices a Man to Pieces” - The Illustrated Police News, August 29th, 1873. “Affray Between Two Ladies of Fashion in the Streets of St. Louis” - The Illustrated Police News, December 7, 1871. “A Saddening Story” - The Illustrated Police News, January 4th, 1872. “A Hairbreadth Escape - A Mississippi Girl Saves a Drowning Man in a Curious Manner” - The Illustrated Police News, August 28, 1873. https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2022/09/fifth-avenue-hotel-opulence-atop.html https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2010/10/i-sit-on-your-grave-new-yorks-hidden.html https://wynninghistory.com/2019/03/04/avondale/ https://thetroyhistoricalsociety.org/obits/John%20Aston.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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