True Crime
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Alias ‘Galloping Dick’
The man now most closely associated with Jerry Abershawe was Richard Ferguson Born in either Herefordshire or Hertfordshire, sources differ; sometime in the 1770s, Ferguson earned a reputation as a juvenile delinquent as a young man, leading a gang of teenage boys in myriad criminal activities. Richard’s father was employed as a gentleman’s servant and, consequently,… Continue reading
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Judge George Gordon Belt and the Mason-Henry Gang
George Gordon Belt arrived in San Francisco on 7 March 1847, as part of Colonel Jonathan Drake Stevenson’s Seventh Regiment of New York Volunteers after enduring an arduous six-month voyage around Cape Horn. Stevenson’s force, 770 men strong, was to form part of the American army occupying California. The Mexican-American War had broken out the… Continue reading
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