Richard More was just six years old when his embittered legal – but not biological – father packed him off to the...
Too bad John Colt didn’t use one of his brother Sam’s revolvers to kill Samuel Adams in 1841. If he had, Samuel...
In 1908, police in New Hampshire drew up a complaint against Madelon Kenmore, a woman they knew as Madelon Coburn. The charge...
In 1795, Abigail Wheelock looked out the window of her house in Hanover, N.H., to see Suky Eastman stepping out the back...
At first glance, it’s hard to imagine William Read running afoul of Puritan justice. But his second wife, Ruth Read, caused his...