True Crime victorian style.

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:37 am

These are some newspaper articles I ran across on a site I was looking around on earlier.I mistakenly added the wrong newspaper clipping to the murder- suicide heading. I corrected my mistake.I must have clicked on the wrong jpg for upload and just now realized it.Sorry about that.

http://theoldentimes.com/old_news_ma11.html

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:33 am

Ahh!
We have a budding Charlie Crowell!
He has saved news items on murder for years and makes murder scrapbooks and sometimes sells them!
I'm so glad you have the sources! His didn't.

Thanks. Interesting!

augusta · Post by **augusta** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:19 am

Interesting articles, Allen. Thank you. Kinda sounds like Detroit on any given day, except they use mostly guns.

In the murder/suicide article, what is that word: "the blaze was extinguished by firemen with little ______s?" It can't be "toes". Hose?

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:04 am

Unless these old eyes deceive me, .I think it's "little loss"

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:30 am

Well I found a story in the New York Times on August 10,1892 on the same page as a story about the Borden Murders. Matter of fact it was only a few paragraphs below it. Tried to scan it into my computer,but I still have that same hunk of junk scanner. I really need to get a new one.

The Title is:

Attacked By His Insane Wife

David Welsh, aged fifty-five years, residing at Tipperary Corners, New Dorp, S.I, was attacked yesterday morning by his wife with an axe. Mrs. Welsh has been acting strangely of late, and during Monday night she became violently insane. She struck her husband several blows with the axe,inflicting wounds about his head, body, and hands. Welsh shouted for help, and some of the neighbors went to his assistance and disarmed her. Mrs. Welsh was taken to Police Headquarters in Stapleton. She will probably be sent to an asylum.

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:13 pm

Thanks for the clips, Allen. Interesting how violent crime has always been a part of society through the ages. Interesting too how murders like the Bordens became big news while these others seemed to just fall by the wayside.