It’s our 1 year anniversary episode!!!! Today, Genevieve will have some brutal vigilante justice, deadly vengeance, another spooky skeleton discovery, a hammer murder, 1800s red pill propaganda, a mysterious murder-suicide, a clairvoyant shot by a spirit hand, and a devout, salvation-seeking rooster, named Cochin - all courtesy of the Illustrated Police News Law Courts and Record, our favorite goopy, gloppy, murdery, marvelous tabloid from the 1800s.
References for Today's Episode:
“The Summary Execution of a Murderer” - The Illustrated Police News, Apr. 3rd, 1873.
“A Frontier Horror” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 25th, 1872.
"Deadly Vengeance of a Woman's Relatives Upon Her Husband" - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th, 1872.
"A Couple of Skeletons Found at Bradford" - The Illustrated Police News, Jul. 30, 1870.
“Terrible Tragedy - Dr. Merriman Cole Found Murdered in His Office” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 18th, 1872.
“A Young Man Belabored by Two Young Ladies for Endorsing Victoria Woodhull's Free Love Sentiments” - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 21st, 1871.
“Mysterious Taking Off of a Young Housekeeper, He Drowns Himself” - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 14st, 1871.
“Shot by a Sprit Hand” - The Illustrated Police News, Oct. 28th, 1876.
“Avarice Kills a Man, and Then Follows the Corpse Several Hundred Miles” - The Illustrated Police News, Dec. 21st, 1871.
“A Rooster Attends Religious Worship in a Family at Cayuga NY” - The Illustrated Police News, Jan. 11th, 1872.
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