Category: Professional Criminals of America
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I’ve edited and published a new collection of articles from a 19th century sporting weekly newspaper. Theodore “The.” Allen was the proprietor of one of the most infamous dance hall saloons of the 1870s and 1880s in New York City, The “American Mabille.” This work originally appeared serially in one of the weekly sporting newspapers,…
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Professional Criminals of America REVISED About a week ago, I finished researching and updating the last of the 204 criminal profiles included in Thomas Byrnes’s 1886 edition of Professional Criminals of America. This had been a year-long project, and one that I undertook thinking that the result might be adapted to print format. However, after…
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While researching old-time crooks as part of my Professional Criminals of America–REVISED blog project, I came across a “lost” treasure. Maximilian Schoenbein, known to the public as Max Shinburn, was the most famous bank robber of the 1860s. In 1913, three years before he died, 74-year-old Shinburn wrote a series of eleven articles for the…
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I’ve set up a new blog site as an experiment in historical research, using as its basis the landmark 1886 book by Chief Inspector Thomas Byrnes of the New York Police Department, Professional Criminals of America. https://criminalsrevised.org Byrnes legacy is decidedly mixed. He was an unapologetic advocate of harsh interrogation techniques, i.e. “the third degree,”…
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