| Author | Bellamy, John Stark.
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| Title | The killer in the attic : and more true tales of crime and disaster from Cleveland's past / John Stark Bellamy II.
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| Published | Cleveland : Gray & Co., c2002.
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| Description | 298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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| ISBN | 1-886228-57-4 (pbk.) |
| Formatted Note | Contents: Smithereen Street: the West 117th Street explosion (1953) -- Friday on his mind: the Spanish fly killer (1948) -- Gangsters' gangster: the improbable story of "Big Jim" Morton (1884-1960) -- Cuyahoga death trip: the Willow Bridge scow disaster (1896) -- The man with the twisted life: the sad saga of Ernst Watzl (1929-1930) -- "They'll never take me alive!": the Mary Sheperd slaughter (1906) -- Death in the deep pit: the terminal tower tragedy (1928) -- A quiet, middle-aged man: the assassination of Dr. Alfred P. Scully (1930) -- A most unquiet grave: the Sarah Victor Story (1868) -- Paddle wheel deathtrap: the G.P. Griffith disaster (1850) -- When monsters walk: Mary Jane Brady & the Collins twins (1943) -- Killer from the attic: the Reichlin murder (1903) -- Sooner or later: the Thompson trophy tragedy (1949) -- Jazz age hit-skip: the Alice Leonard story (1928) -- "I am settling for all past wrongs . . .": William Adin's cross-town bloodbath (1875) -- Damn the torpedoes: the fireworks factory horrors (1902-1903) -- "No mother, nor no mother, nor nothin'": the death of Alfred Williams (1900) -- Death of the dancehall girls: the Anna Kinkopf/Eva Meyer murders (1905) -- Burning, burning, burning river: the Cuyahoga river fires of 1912, 1922, 1930, 1948, 1952, and 1969 -- Three distaff poisoners: Elsie Bass (1917); Anna Kempf (1928); and Dorothy Kaplan (1956) -- Orville's "little boy blue": the Melvin Horst mystery (1928) -- The body in the harbor: Samuel Smith's fatal jetsam (1904) -- A victorian scandal: the Thomas Axworthy affair (1888) -- Shot in his own bed: the murder of David Skinner (1868) -- Rampant criminality: the legend of Shondor Birns (1906-1975) -- When nature frowns: the Lorain tornado (1924).
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| Subjects | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Anecdotes.
Cleveland imprints -- 2002.
Crime -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Anecdotes.
Crime -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Case studies.
Criminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Case studies.
Disasters -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Case studies.
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| LC Card Number | 2002-2430 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 34 ZSP B438
mq226025: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 136617] |
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