Jay Robert Nash - Jay Robert Nashs Crime Chronology: A Worldwide Record 1900-1983

Jay Robert Nashs

BOOKS BY JAY ROBERT NASH

FICTION

ON ALL FRONTS

A CRIME STORY

THE DARK FOUNTAIN

THE MAFIA DIARIES

NONFICTION

DILLINGER: DEAD OR ALIVE?

CITIZEN HOOVER

BLOODLETTERS AND BADMEN

HUSTLERS AND CON MEN

DARKEST HOURS

AMONG THE MISSING

MURDER, AMERICA

ALMANAC OF WORLD CRIME

LOOK FOR THE WOMAN

PEOPLE TO SEE

THE TRUE CRIME QUIZ BOOK

THE INNOVATORS

ZANIES, THE WORLDS GREATEST ECCENTRICS

THE CRIME MOVIE QUIZ BOOK

MURDER AMONG THE MIGHTY

OPEN FILES, THE WORLDS GREATEST UNSOLVED CRIMES

THE TOUGHEST MOVIE QUIZ BOOK EVER

THE DILLINGER DOSSIER

POETRY

LOST NATIVES & EXPATRIATES

THEATER

THE WAY BACK

OUTSIDE THE GATES

1947 (LAST RITES FOR THE BOYS)

Jay Robert Nashs Crime Chronology

Copyright 1984 by Jay Robert Nash

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Nash, Jay Robert.

Jay Robert Nashs Crime Chronology

Includes index.

1. Crime and criminalsChronology. I. Title.

HV6030.N37 1985 364.9 83-14046

ISBN-087196-663-8

ISBN-0-8160-1009-9 (PB)

Printed in the United States of America

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Cover design: Eric Elias

Interior design: Teresa Delgado, A Good Thing Inc.

Jay Robert Nashs

JAN. 9

Louise Masset is hanged at Londons Newgate Prison for murdering her three-year-old illegitimate son, Manfred, (whom she had suffocated and left in a womans lavatory at a train station), to be free to pursue her love affair with 19-year-old Euduore Lucas.

MARCH 23

Louis Rice, a black who had testified for another black accused of murdering a white man, is lynched outside Ripley, Tenn.

JULY 23

After raping 13-year-old Susan Priest, Elijah Clark, a black, is taken from the Huntsville, Ala., jail, dragged to the scene of the crime and lynched.

JULY 29

Italys King Humbert I is assassinated by Gaetano Bresci at Monza, near Milan; Bresci, an anarchist weaver from Paterson, N.J., had saved up wages for his return to his native land and the murder.

AUG. 20

Franz Theodore Wallert butchers his wife and four stepchildren; he will be hanged at Gaylord, Minn., on March 29, 1901.

SEPT. 22

Mary Bennett is found strangled on a Yarmouth, England, beach; her husband, Herbert John Bennett, will be arrested for the murder on Nov. 6, 1900, convicted, and hanged for the crime at Norwich Prison on March 21, 1901.

SEPT. 23

Millionaire William Rice is chloroformed to death by his valet, Charles Jones, in Rices palatial New York City apartment, at the direction of Rices lawyer, Albert T. Patrick, in a wild scheme to obtain the tycoons money; Jones will turn states evidence, and Patrick will get the death sentence, later commuted to life; he will be pardoned by New York Governor John A. Dix on Nov. 28, 1912.

DEC. 23

Widow Thirza Isabella Kelly is stabbed to death by 17-year-old John Edward Casey, who breaks into her Great Yarmouth, England, home in a clumsy attempt to seduce her; Casey will be given a life sentence the following year.

JAN. 11

William Wall and Wild Bunch member Matt Warner, after serving several years for robbery and murder, are released from the Utah State Penitentiary. Both men have reformed.

FEB. 28

Lonnie Logan, Wild Bunch member and brother of Harvey Logan (Kid Curry), is surrounded in a farmhouse outside Dodson, Mont., by a posse hunting him for bank robbery; Logan runs from the house through deep snow, blazing away at deputies, who shoot the 28-year-old bandit to death.

APRIL 5

While chasing Wild Bunch train robbers in eastern Ariz., George Scarborough, killer of gunman John Selman, Sr. (himself killer of gunman John Wesley Hardin), is shot by unknown parties from ambush; he will die the following day.

APRIL 17

George Flat Nose Currie, Wild Bunch member and much-wanted train robber, is caught rustling cattle by possemen outside Castle Gate, Utah, and is killed in a wild gunfight; town citizens rush to the slain outlaw and skin his body for gruesome souvenirs.

MAY 16

Kid Curry (Harvey Logan), of the Wild Bunch, kills Sheriff John Tyler and Deputy Sam Kenkins in Moab County, Utah, as the lawmen attempt to arrest him for robbery.

JULY 9

Tom Horn, ex-lawman turned hired gunman for a cattle consortium, shoots and kills suspected rustler Matt Rash near Browns Hole, Wyo.

AUG. 29

Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Kid Curry, 0. C. Deaf Charley Hanks and other Wild Bunch members rob Train No. 3 of the Union Pacific between Tipton and Table Rock, Wyo., of $5,014.

SEPT. 8

Scores of looters descend upon Galveston, Tex., after the city is devastated by a hurricane; many are shot by troopers.

SEPT. 19

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rob the First National Bank of Winnemuca, Nev., of several thousand dollars.

JAN. 7

Future California gambling boss and syndicate member Simone Scozzari is born in Sicily.

MARCH 15

Al The Owl Polizzi arrives in the U.S. from Siculiana, Sicily; with a police record dating from 1920, he will operate rackets under Moe Dalitz in Cleveland, Ohio, and will help to organize the national crime syndicate; he will be termed by U.S. Senate investigators as one of the most influential members of the underworld in the United States before his retirement to Coral Gables, Fla.

MARCH 4

Albert J. Adams is exposed as the king of the numbers racket in New York City, running more than 800 policy shops that cater to more than 1 million customers a day.

MARCH 9

Policy king Zachariah Simmons is exposed by The New York Times as paying off thousands of dollars each year to New York City politicians and police to protect his fixed lottery and numbers operations.

FEB. 1

The most lavish brothel in the U.S., the Everleigh Club, owned and operated by Ada and Minna Everleigh, opens at 2131-33 South Dearborn Street, Chicago; the sisters will earn millions before their retirement 11 years later.

AUG. 15

Race riots break out in New York City; mobs attempt to kill black entertainers Ernest Hogan, Williams & Walker and Coke & Johnson, who escape from theaters with rioters in pursuit.

DEC. 18

Edward A. Cudahy, Jr., 15-year-old son of a millionaire Omaha, Neb., meat-packer, is kidnapped by Pat Crowe, who will ransom the boy two days later for $25,000 in gold pieces. Crowe will escape to South Africa and, after many adventures, return to the U.S. in 1906, where he will return the ransom money; he will be tried and acquitted, mostly because he has, he claims, struck out at the powerful meat trust tycoon; for years thereafter Crowe will send his kidnap victim Christmas cards.