Tesla Versus the Martians

In January, 1901, Nikola Tesla announced that he had received radio signals which he believed came from Mars. A brief message, the numbers 1,2,3, came to him during his 1899 experiments in Colorado Springs at the foot of Pike's Peak. "I share the belief of other scientific men that the planet Mars...

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Dr. Henry H. Holmes in the Journal of the American Medical Association

Dr. Eugene S. Talbot wrote an article regarding the multi-murderer Henry H. Holmes which appeared in the August 1st, 1896 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Talbot had received a dentistry degree from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872 and a medical degree from...

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Criminality in the Hair. (And Ears, And Chin . . .)

In August of 1895, The New York Herald hired criminologist Arthur MacDonald to interview and physically examine Dr. Henry H. Holmes who at that time sat in Moyamensing Prison in Philadelphia, accused of one murder and suspected of many more. Arthur MacDonald had authored the first book published in...

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The Crime of the Century

THE CRIME of the century occurs every few years, once the fervor generated by the previous candidate has dissipated enough to permit the media to dust off and reuse the phrase. During the decade of the 1890s several murder cases captured the public's imagination to compete for the title of the crime...

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The One Year Anniversary of this Blog: A Look Back.

One year has passed. I've made 128 posts which work out to be better than one every three days. I've gotten about 24000 hits: not bad. A lot of effort has gone into these posts (sometimes I feel I could have written three novels for all of the energy I've put into this). It is my philosophy to create...

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