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Talk about petty crime

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Found this little article in a July 16th, 1886 Boston Globe. Note that one of the stores taken was D. R. Smith's, later to be involved in the Borden case.

Where's Officer Mullally when you need him? :smile: Can't have these crimes waves sweeping Fall River.

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Wow- that's a severe punishment! Maybe the shopkeepers were having a hot summer and tempers rose?

Fall River had "The Bowery" in 1886?

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Can you imagine if they did that today????
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I believe 7 cents back then would be equal to about $1.50 today. Poor guy must have been pretty broke to go through all that trouble for a buck and a half each time.

Do you think that ice cream dealer was the one we know so well?
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I was wondering the same thing. The driver, Lubinsky, was only 12 in 1886. But we'd need a City Directory for that year to see if his employer, Wilkerson, was in the ice cream business at that time.
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Nadzieja @ Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:34 am wrote:Can you imagine if they did that today????

They would throw the dunker under the jail and let the dunkee go. Crime pays.

Some guy on a Cops TV show threw a tiny cheese burger at his wife and the police arrested him for assualt. Now days you can't even say, "I'm going to kick your b--t!" They will lock you up for making a terrorist threat. The laws are getting so stupid. I wonder if I could get arrested for saying that? :-? Opps, the cops are here... :wink:

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