Vintage Photos, Genealogy & Crime Stories
According to the journalist Herbert Asbury, San Francisco's Barbary Coast in the mid-19th century was a place where women were celebrated: There was such a dearth of females in the San Francisco of gold-rush days that a woman was almost as rare a sight as an elephant, while a child was an even more unusual … Continue reading The Lost Chicken
A fire broke out in a multi-family apartment building at 114 Wyckoff Street in Brooklyn on the night of December 10, 1907. The building was located in the heart of what was then one of the borough’s most populous tenement districts. Heat from blaze damaged the water pipes, causing water to drip through the floor … Continue reading Firebug
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I don't believe it. I think stealing someone else's stuff is just plain lazy. It's also against the law. In August 2017 I published a blog post about Leona and Pearl O'Loughlin. Troy Taylor copied a section of my post and put it in his … Continue reading Stealing Stuff
Annie Stocinski was arrested on December 18, 1909 for larceny from a shop near the "Boston Stone," a tourist attraction in that city. She was arrested with another person whose name and number went unrecorded.
Captured and Exposed 