The Infamous Harry Hayward

Author : Shawn Francis Peters
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452957118
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Infamous Harry Hayward written by Shawn Francis Peters and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion—and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster” On a winter night in 1894, a young woman’s body was found in the middle of a road near Lake Calhoun on the outskirts of Minneapolis. She had been shot through the head. The murder of Kittie Ging, a twenty-nine-year-old dressmaker, was the final act in a melodrama of seduction and betrayal, petty crimes and monstrous deeds that would obsess reporters and their readers across the nation when the man who likely arranged her killing came to trial the following spring. Shawn Francis Peters unravels that sordid, spellbinding story in his account of the trial of Harry Hayward, a serial seducer and schemer whom some deemed a “Svengali,” others a “Machiavelli,” and others a “lunatic” and “man without a soul.” Dubbed “one of the greatest criminals the world has ever seen” by the famed detective William Pinkerton, Harry Hayward was an inveterate and cunning plotter of crimes large and small, dabbling in arson, insurance fraud, counterfeiting, and illegal gambling. His life story, told in full for the first time here, takes us into shadowy corners of the nineteenth century, including mesmerism, psychopathy, spiritualism, yellow journalism, and capital punishment. From the horrible fate of an independent young businesswoman who challenged Victorian mores to the shocking confession of Hayward on the eve of his execution (which, if true, would have made him a serial killer), The Infamous Harry Hayward unfolds a transfixing tale of one of the most notorious criminals in America during the Gilded Age.

Author : Jeffrey M. Sauve
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0578341409
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder at Minnesota Point written by Jeffrey M. Sauve and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billed as the crime of the century in 1894, this book tells the true story of a young, unidentified woman found slain on the shores of Minnesota Point, Duluth, Minn. After she was buried in an unnamed grave, her assailant breathed a sigh of relief. Over the next two years, city detectives pursued numerous suspects from every corner of the country.

Author : Shawn Francis Peters
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807179620
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Bad Men Combine written by Shawn Francis Peters and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Route scandal captured the nation’s attention for more than a decade, with newspapers throughout the United States characterizing it as an unprecedented case of Gilded Age graft. Shawn Francis Peters’s When Bad Men Combine provides a glimpse into this uniquely tumultuous period marked by brazen greed and duplicity. In the first book to offer a full recounting of the Star Route maelstrom, which roiled American politics during the 1870s and 1880s, Peters reveals how postal service corruption resulted in a remarkable legal case that featured jury bribery and document theft. When Bad Men Combine follows the saga to its culmination as two sensational criminal trials presented evidence implicating some of the most prominent men in America and, perhaps, led to the assassination of President James Garfield.

Author : Keven McQueen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253058457
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murderous Acts written by Keven McQueen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Midwest may be known for salt-of-the-earth folks, it's also home to murder and mayhem. In Murderous Acts: 100 Years of Crime in the Midwest, Keven McQueen explores a century of true crimes committed in 10 Midwestern states, from the 1840s to the 1940s. With a touch of gallows humor, McQueen relies on original research to recount infamous transgressions—including Michigan's Robert Irving Latimer case, the serial murders of Nebraskan Jake Bird, and the bloody deeds of Kansas's Bender family—as well as gruesome tales that are less well known, such as the Wisconsin man with a penchant for swinging an axe at the necks of men he didn't care for, the Hoosier who killed his sweetheart in the midst of a Halloween ball, and the French nobleman who wreaked havoc in a St. Louis hotel. Murderous Acts will intrigue and delight fans of true crime and will send a shiver down the spine of any reader fascinated by the dark history of America's Heartland.

Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345524489
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psycho USA written by Harold Schechter and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMERICA’S MOST COLD-BLOODED! In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who’s gotten ink for spilling blood, there’s a bevy of all-but-forgotten homicidal fiends studding the bloody margins of U.S. history. The law gave them their just desserts, but now the hugely acclaimed author of The Serial Killer Files and The Whole Death Catalog gives them their dark due in this absolutely riveting true-crime treasury. Among America’s most cold-blooded you’ll meet • Robert Irwin, “The Mad Sculptor”: He longed to use his carving skills on the woman he loved—but had to settle for making short work of her mother and sister instead. • Peter Robinson, “The Tell-Tale Heart Killer”: It took two days and four tries for him to finish off his victim, but no time at all for keen-eyed cops to spot the fatal flaw in his floor plan. • Anton Probst, “The Monster in the Shape of a Man”: The ax-murdering immigrant’s systematic slaughter of all eight members of a Pennsylvania farm family matched the savagery of the Manson murders a century later. • Edward H. Ruloff, “The Man of Two Lives”: A genuine Jekyll and Hyde, his brilliant scholarship disguised his bloodthirsty brutality, and his oversized brain gave new meaning to “mastermind.” Spurred by profit, passion, paranoia, or perverse pleasure, these killers—the Witch of Staten Island, the Smutty Nose Butcher, the Bluebeard of Quiet Dell, and many others—span three centuries and a host of harrowing murder methods. Dramatized in the pages of penny dreadfuls, sensationalized in tabloid headlines, and immortalized in “murder ballads” and classic fiction by Edgar Allan Poe and Theodore Dreiser, the demonic denizens of Psycho USA may be long gone to the gallows—but this insidiously irresistible slice of gothic Americana will ensure that they’ll no longer be forgotten.

Author : William P. Everts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7K/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stockwell of Minneapolis written by William P. Everts and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S.A. Stockwell was a politician ahead of his time. From before the turn of the century, he held office into the 1930s and strove to better Minnesota and its people by supporting women's rights, improving schools and labor conditions, revamping tax laws, and fighting for African-Americans.

Author : Carl Sifakis
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Historic Nicknames written by Carl Sifakis and published by New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Publications. This book was released on 1984 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains nicknames of more than 7,500 famous and infamous historical figures and contemporary celebrities.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.0J/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minnesota Literature Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1974-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Gensler
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595182879
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power! written by John Gensler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05-29 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power! exposes the foreign manipulation of U.S. financial markets, which caused us to create the ‘anti-nuke’ movement and covertly collapse our own nuclear energy program! The United States announced plans in 1965 to build one thousand nuclear power plants. Americans praised the clean, efficient, and economical energy. Fifteen years and only 90 plants later, the U.S. nuclear energy program was effectively aborted. But nuclear power programs still thrive throughout Europe and Asia. Why not in the United States? In the early 1970’s, an American engineer, Duncan Hayward, uncovered a foreign plot to take control of the electric power industry in the United States and thereby crush the U.S. economy. Foreign cartels were buying huge chunks of the U.S. nuclear power industry through an ingenious computerized scheme. Hayward soon realized that the only way to stop them was to remove their primary target, the nuclear power industry itself. Hayward’s plan, approved at the highest government levels, would systematically destroy the nuclear industry. Politicians, celebrities, and news media were used to convey messages of fear and environmental disaster to the general public. Hayward and his supporters executed the odious ‘anti-nuke’ plan and the U.S. nuclear energy program collapsed, taking with it the foreign cartels.