The Least Successful Train Robber in America (1910)

With his bowler hat and three-day beard, George Ebeling certainly looked the part of a wild-west desperado, and over the previous two and a half years, he did his best to play the role as well. Unfortunately, train robbery just wasn’t … Continued

‘Til Death Do Us Part…Again (1888, 1918)

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Spousal abuse is a vigorously prosecuted crime in the United States, but spousal abandonment? Not so much. Although it’s still a crime to walk out on a spouse in most jurisdictions, seldom does a district attorney prosecute a runaway husband. … Continued

Breaking Glass: Clarence Glass and the Maybray Gang (1910)

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  Behind the dapper visage and the styling bowler hat is the cool-as-a-cucumber con-man Clarence Glass, AKA Charles Glass. And until his arrest in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on March 22, 1910, he played a key role in a gang of grifters … Continued

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