Illinois
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The (Brief) Disappearance of Marjorie Hartzell
Marjorie Hartzell On Wednesday, 9 April 1919, Marjorie Hartzell, a fifteen-year-old student, disappeared while walking to class at New Trier High School in the village of Winnetka, Illinois. At about 8.30 am, Marjorie was following two of her friends as they reached the Hubbard Woods station when the ’southbound electric car’ that would ferry them… Continue reading
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A Dark and Lonesome Passage to Eternity
Edward Bonney, a 38-year-old alleged counterfeiter from Montrose, Iowa, arrived in Chicago on the steamship Champion early on Thursday, 25 September 1845. Bonney was accompanied by two other men, identified by the local newspaper, The Chicago Democrat, as ’two of the five murderers of Col. Davenport, Wm. F. Birch, alias Haines, and John Long, alias… Continue reading
19th Century, 4th of July, Aaron Long, Banditti of the Prairie, Counterfeiting, Crime, Crime and Punishment, Detective, Edward Bonney, George Davenport, Granville Young, Hangings, history, Illinois, Iowa, John Long, Justice, Murder, Newspapers, outlaws, Public Execution, Rock Island, United States History
