Impostors

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• Impostors

The Detectives and the World’s Greatest Impostor [published May 20, 1883]

jpkntz April 2, 2024

      A lawyer of this city, residin’ on an...

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• Impostors
• Royalty

The Napoleon and Josephine of New York [published July 24, 1881]

jpkntz February 27, 2024

      It is not perhaps known to one person...

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• Artists
• Impostors
• Philanthropists
• Women

The Gentleman’s Gentleman Who Was a Lady [published Jun. 7, 1885]

jpkntz February 6, 2024

      The papers have lately been full of the...

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• Impostors
• Murder

The Veiled Murderess of Troy [published Mar. 20, 1881]

jpkntz January 12, 2024

      One of my correspondents requests that I make...

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• Criminals
• Impostors

Col. Reeves of the Charge of the Six Hundred (charged) [published Aug. 7, 1881]

jpkntz August 21, 2023

      Years ago, there lived a man in Brooklyn...

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• Brooklyn
• Impostors
• Royalty

The (American) Tichborne Claimant [published Feb. 3, 1884]

jpkntz July 23, 2023

      I see the Tichborne claimant’s time is nearly...

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• Con Artists
• Criminals
• Detectives
• Forgery
• Impostors

The Amateur Detective [published Oct. 1, 1882]

jpkntz July 10, 2023

      Philip Brown, an old New Yorker, who recently...

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