My father was from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. He said he knew a guy there who would drink anything. This man would melt down old records (the kind we...
All this moonshine talk has got me reminiscing. I spent several a couple of years collecting random moonshiner stories and have several articles published on...
Hey, post 'em. I'd love to see them. Here in Oklahoma nearly all the noted bank bandits began their careers as either moonshiners or bootleggers. Matter of...
Here's a story I wrote for Smoky Mountain Living Magazine last year. Hope you enjoy it! ~kate ... Whiskey Women, Moonshining Mamas and Bootlegging Babes By...
Ed, about 4 years ago my wife & I stayed at the Glenora Distillery up in the northern part of Cape Breton Island, beautiful area, Iverness. Out of professional...
Fantastic stories! I've been knocked off the net most of the day by a horrid ice-storm here and it's great to be able to tune in at a moment like this! Rick...
Hi Sandy. I visited the Glenora Distillery many years ago. My Dad told me that when he was a kid in Cape Breton, he and another guy found a bootlegger's...
I reviewed this book on amazon. It has some great shots of Chicago etc.. One of Dilly in there. Some captions are off due to the often mistaken acceptance of...
I know that this is not a subject under the terms but I have studied this crime and the trial for the last 15 years. The crime was more shocking to the rough...
Hi, Dean: In my opinion, although Leopold and Loeb's 1924 murder of Bobby Franks is not a "gangster" case it does fall loosely under the category of ...
Thanks for the tip, Mario. The book sounds great, and I am definitely adding it to my Christmas wish list. Bob ... etc.. One of Dilly in there. Some captions...
John Douglas is a fascinating character in his own right and I enjoy him very much. Thanks for the recommendation of the other book. Teresa "Robert E. Bates"...
There were any aspects to the Loeb-Leopold case in Chicago. There was the aspect anti-Semites, given that all the main players, including the victim, were ...
Years ago I checked an old book out of the library and I believe the name was Leopold and Loeb and it was a thick book that held my attention from start to...
Irving Stone wrote a biography of Darrow, and gives a good precis of the LL case. While not definitive, it is a good beginning. I can't remeber the name of the...
No problem Bob! Anything for Gangsterologists! Mario ... From: "Robert E. Bates" <reb97045@...> To: <gangsterologists@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday,...
That email again for 25% off the Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era book is tmissildine(at)turnerpublishing.com can't put @ as it doesn't seem...
Alfred Hitchcock purportedly made the movie "Rope" because of his personal fascination with the LL case -- which in turn was based on the play Rope by Patrick...
While we tend to think of the Prohibition through Depression period as the "gangster era" I suspect from listening to my parents and others who were around...
Rick, Ive been looking into our photo collections and over the last few days have gotten into the Law and Law Enforcement section. The 1930s are filled with...
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Lupus est homo homini -- man is wolf to man Fred archive@... wrote: Rick, I’ve been looking into our photo collections and over the last few days have...
I agree with all this. Mankind has always been anything but kind. I have no doubt that legends of vampires, werewolves, and other things that go bump in the...
In a message dated 12/5/2007 15:22:03 Central Standard Time, gcalknet@... writes: The interesting thing is that crime was no higher in the depression,...
One thing that is often overlooked, though, is that not everything was booming during the 1920s. The farm economy, in particular, plummeted pretty severely...
I think poverty has always been a factor where crime is concerned but it's obviously only one of many and just as obviously not applicable in every case. As...
Simplistic as it sounds--I'd have to say in Oklahoma in the 1930s --poverty was indeed the chief motivation for the crimes of theft and robbery. Folks from...
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