All posts tagged "criminals"
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4.9KCrime and ScandalNotorious Tom Bell – Minister, Teacher, Pirate, Thief . . .
In 1742 Tom Bell was probably the most well known product of Harvard College in America. The entire nation knew how he...
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7.1K2Crime and ScandalStop Thief! The Society of Mutual Aid Against Thieves Chases Lawless Freebooters
Like many vigilante groups in New England, the Society of Mutual Aid Against Thieves came about for good reason in Worcester, Mass.,...
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5.6K5Business and LaborThe Mystery of the Mary Celeste
On Nov. 5, 1872, Benjamin Briggs of Wareham, Mass. piloted the brigantine Mary Celeste to sea loaded with cargo for Genoa. It...
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12.4K1Crime 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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7.9K5Arts and LeisureThe Many Loves of Henry Tufts: Original Colonial Badboy
Few criminals built a record as long or as celebrated as Henry Tufts. While history of the colonial era tends to focus...
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5.7K4ConnecticutConnecticut’s Mysterious Dave Mather – The Law of the Old West
Saybrook Connecticut’s Mysterious Dave Mather came to be a lawman in the old west pretty much by chance. Mather’s father Ulysses and...
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6.1K4Crime and ScandalSuicide or Murder – The Unsolved Mystery of the 1878 Dexter Savings Bank Robbery
On Feb. 22, 1878, the treasurer of the Dexter Savings Bank, John Barron, was found lying in front of the bank vault...
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6.2K8Crime and ScandalThe Capture of the I’m Alone – New England’s Uncatchable Rumrunner
For six years during the heart of Prohibition, New England Coast Guard patrols often saw the Gloucester-rigged schooner I’m Alone sailing off...
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88.0K33ConnecticutWay More Than the Scarlet Letter: Puritan Punishments
In their rigid enforcement of community standards, New England’s Puritan punishments often often included the bilbo, the cleft stick, the brand, the ear...
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24.3K6Crime and ScandalThe Day Rhode Island Hanged 26 Pirates
On July 19, 1723, officials in Newport, R.I., hanged 26 sailors for piracy before a jubilant crowd. They comprised half of all...
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