All posts tagged "Charles Street Jail"
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19.1KbostonAvis Linnell, Murdered by Her Minister, Inspires ‘An American Tragedy’
The 1911 murder of a 19-year-old music student, Avis Linnell, in the Boston YWCA was one of the most sensational crimes in...
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8.0K1Crime and ScandalHenry Cabot Lodge–Statesman, Historian and Witness to a Kidnapping
One day in 1860, Henry Cabot Lodge was sitting on the porch of the little school he attended in Nahant, Mass., when...
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40.5K17New HampshireThe Sensational Surrender of Four Nazi U-boats at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
On May 15, 1945, onlookers tried to glimpse the first of four Nazi U-boats towed up the Piscataqua River to surrender at...
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