John the Yegg
John the Yegg

Author: Patrick Joseph Fasl

Publisher:

Published: 2018-12-14

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 9781790729975

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In July 1946, President Harry Truman ordered Jimmy Pendergast to fully support the removal of the current Missouri 5th District Congressman Roger Slaughter. Following the August 1946 primary election the Kansas City Star said there had been a vote fraud involving the removal of Slaughter. Fast forward to May 1947---a Jackson County Grand Jury indicted over 70 individuals for the vote fraud. In late May 1947 someone got into the Jackson County courthouse, blew open the safe containing the ballots and subsequently stole them. Not only did this act negate prosecution of most of the indicted individuals; no one was ever charged with the ballot theft. John The Yegg tells this story and reveal who committed the ballot theft via official FBI reports.

A Dictionary of the Underworld
A Dictionary of the Underworld

Author: Eric Partridge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 2680

ISBN-13: 131744552X

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First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.

Crooked Talk
Crooked Talk

Author: Jonathon Green

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-06-02

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1446472906

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The language of crime has a long and venerable history - in fact, the first collection of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the Spittel House, dates from as early as 1531. Jonathon Green is our national expert on slang, and in Crooked Talk he looks at five hundred years of crooks and conmen - from the hedge-creepers and counterfeit cranks of the sixteenth century to the blaggers and burners of the twenty-first - as well as the swag, the hideouts, the getaway vehicles and the 'tools of the trade'. Not to mention a substantial detour into the world of prisons that faced those unlucky enough to be caught by the boys in blue. If you have ever wondered when the police were first referred to as pigs, why prison guards became known as redraws, or what precisely the subtle art of dipology involves, then this book has all the answers.

The Selected Works of Eric Partridge
The Selected Works of Eric Partridge

Author: Eric Partridge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-14

Total Pages: 2733

ISBN-13: 1317431588

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This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.

Wicked Herkimer County
Wicked Herkimer County

Author: Caryl Hopson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1439673713

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From Little Falls to Frankfort, Herkimer County is no stranger to the seamier side of life. The drowning murder of Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake and the ensuing trial of Chester Gillette was the inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's famous novel An American Tragedy. Medical students from the Fairfield Medical College attempted to rob local graves for cadavers, drawing the ire of local residents, who formed a mob to meet them. Outlaw thieves faced off against New York City detectives in a gun battle at Camp Utica in Old Forge. Hotheaded shootings and Prohibition raids were rampant at the liquor-soaked lumberjack camp of Beaver River Station in Webb. Editors Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins have assembled a collection of narratives that offer a glimpse into the seedy underbelly of Herkimer County's wicked past.

Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Bankers' Association
Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Bankers' Association

Author: American Bankers Association

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13:

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Proceedings of the sections of the association are included in the volumes as follows: Trust company section (organized 1896) 1st, 3rd-7th, 14th- annual meetings, in v. 23, 25-29, 35- 1897, 1899-1903, 1909- ;Savings bank section (organized 1902) 2d, 8th- annual meetings in v. 29, 35- 1903, 1909- ; Clearing house section (organized 1906) 3d- annual meetings, in v. 35- 1909-

The Story of Canada Blackie
The Story of Canada Blackie

Author: Anne Porter Lynes Lloyd

Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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"The story of Canada Blackie ... the man who was regarded as the most dangerous criminal in the state, became, through the same strength that made him dangerous, a loyal and trusted friend of authorities, helping to build up a new and better prison system by the sympathetic help of the prisoners themselves."--Introduction.

Public Enemies
Public Enemies

Author: Bryan Burrough

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780143115861

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Analyzes Depression-era bank robbery and its most notorious figures, discussing the factors that influenced the period's crime rates, the formation and early work of the FBI, and the contributions of J. Edgar Hoover.