All posts tagged "Crime"
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6.4K4ConnecticutConnecticut Justice: When Murder Became Manslaughter
The evolution of New England laws from religious based findings toward secular Common Law was a gradual affair, and it took a...
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12.1K1Crime and ScandalStephen Burroughs Counterfeiter – A Revolutionary Success Story
Shortly after the end of the Revolutionary war the new American country needed currency, and Stephen Burroughs was happy to oblige. He...
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14.0K8Arts and LeisureSix Brutalist Buildings
Two of the most famous Brutalist buildings in America are still provoking strong emotions in New England decades after they first reared...
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9.8K6Crime and ScandalMaine Smuggling and the Raid on Calais
The northern tip of the Maine coast was a smugglers’ paradise for generations. Maine smuggling was an essential part of the economy...
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22.0K4Crime and ScandalMaurice Lerner, the Brookline Mobster Hired To Kill Fidel Castro
Maurice Lerner grew up in Brookline, Mass., and as a young man he was astute, polite and athletic. His athletic prowess landed...
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8.8K2Crime and ScandalThe Remittance Men: John Dudley Sargent and Robert Ray Hamilton
In 1890, the descendants of two of America’s first families – the Sargents and the Hamiltons – traveled to Wyoming to start...
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25.9K1Crime and ScandalThe Madness of Vermont’s Ezra Smith
To this day nobody really knows what happened in August of 1877 to Deacon Ezra Smith of Vergennes, Vermont. Was he engulfed...
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8.6KCrime and ScandalHenriette Desportes Leaves the Scandals of Paris for a Stockbridge Minister
By the time she died in 1875, people knew Henriette Desportes as a minister’s wife in Stockbridge, Mass. But behind that staid...
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14.3K3ConnecticutThe 1919 Christmas Eve Massacre and the Mobster Who Got Away With Murder
On Christmas Eve and Christmas day in 1919 a tidal wave of patients began showing up at the hospitals in Western Massachusetts...
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8.3K1Crime and ScandalThe Merry Widow Murder of 1936
On October 5, 1936, police got a call to the waterfront at Boston’s Logan Airport. Two men had found a bag in...
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