Wednesday, October 13, 2010
[display_podcast] On Friday, December 4, 1789, William Mooney Fitzgerald and John Clark were scheduled to appear before the court in St. John, New Brunswick. They were to learn their sentence after being tried and found guilty of burglary the day before. That morning, Rev. Charles William Milton entered their prison cell and later wrote that […]
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Tagged Animal theft, Burglary, Canada, Convict Transportation, Counterfeiting, Execution, Imprisonment, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Punishment, Rape, Robbery, Shoplifting, Theft
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
[display_podcast] Note: This post continues “Thomas Mount’s Crime Tips.†Long before Nicholas Pileggi wrote Wiseguy and revealed the inner-workings of present-day organized crime, Thomas Mount in 1791 disclosed the secrets of the Flash Company, a gang of burglars, thieves, and highwaymen. As a part of his revelations, Mount asked that the language and songs of […]
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Tagged Burglary, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Organized crime, Pennsylvania, Pickpocketing, Prisons and Jails, Punishment, Rhode Island, Robbery, South Carolina
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
[display_podcast] Note: This post continues “Thomas Mount and the Flash Company.†In his “Last Speech and Dying Words‖a subsection of The Confession, &c. of Thomas Mount–Thomas Mount offers an odd mix of contrition, advice, and rant. Along with the usual declarations of penitence and warnings to young men not to follow his idle ways, Mount […]
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
[display_podcast] In April 1791, Thomas Mount and James Williams were thrown in the Newport, RI jail to be held until their execution for burglary. Williams was reticent to discuss his life or the crime that the two committed, but Mount not only willingly talked at length about these topics, he divulged the inner-workings of the […]
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Tagged Burglary, Connecticut, Imprisonment, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Organized crime, Pennsylvania, Punishment, Rhode Island, Virginia, Whipping
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Francis Uss handed a manuscript to a visitor a “day or two before his suffering.†The manuscript was an account of his life and crimes, and it gives a remarkable picture of a man waiting to be hanged. Back and Forth Uss said that he was born in 1761 to “reputable parents,†who lived in […]
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