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Crime Ephemera: Newspaper Articles Relating to Criminal Cases

Borowitz Crime Ephemera: Newspaper Articles Relating to Criminal Cases, 1823-1921

Inventory

Prepared for the Web by Cara Gilgenbach, April 13, 2005; Updated October 2005
2 flat oversize boxes, 3 cubic feet, 11th floor

Scope and Content

This collection contains newspaper articles and issue relating to various murder cases. Most of the articles are photocopies and are contemporaneous to the time of murders and trials.

NOTE TO RESEARCHERS: The inventory below is only a partial listing of the items in this collection. Additional materials will be added as they are processed. Check back for updates.

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

  1. [Borden, Lizzie]. "The Borden Trial. Prisoner's Testimony at the Inquest Excluded. Miss Borden Weeps With Joy at the Announcement. Matron Reagan Tells of the Sisters' Quarrel in Jail..." Boston Weekly Journal [Boston], June 16, 1893 [incomplete issue]. [Purchased for the Borowitz Collection.]
  2. [Manning Case]. Daily News [London], August-November, 1849, [photocopies].
  3. [Manning Case]. Morning Advertiser [London], August-November, 1849, [photocopies].
  4. [Manning Case]. Morning Chronicle [London], August-November, 1849, [photocopies].
  5. [Manning Case]. The Morning Post [London], August-November, 1849, [photocopies].
  6. [Manning Case]. The Observer [London], August-November, 1849, [photocopies].

Box 2
Folder -- Contents

  1. [Thurtell/Hunt Case]. The Englishman. December 7, 1823, [photocopy].
  2. [Thurtell/Hunt Case]. The Morning Chronicle [London]. October 1823-January 1824, [photocopies].
  3. [Thurtell/Hunt Case]. The Norwich Mercury. November 1823-January 1824, [photocopies].
  4. [Thurtell/Hunt Case]. The Observer [London]. October 1823-January 1824, [photocopies].
  5. [Thurtell/Hunt Case]. The Times [London]. October 1823-April 1824, [photocopies].
  6. [Thurtell/Hunt Case]. The Weekly Dispatch [London]. November 1823-February 1824, [photocopies].
  7. [Thurtell/Hunt Case]. Miscellaneous clippings, undated and unidentified, [photocopies].
  8. [Sly-Fanner Case]. "Detectives Watch Car, Take Three," Cleveland Plain Dealer. January 4, 1921, p. 1 [plus miscellaneous unrelated pages].
  9. [Whitla Kidnapping Case]. "Helen Boyle's Fate is Held by Billy's Father," Cleveland Press. May 30, 1915, p. 1 [plus remainder of first section of paper].