Tag: drug addiction

• Doctor George Henry Lamson, the ‘Sleight of Hand Poisoner’; Not as clever as he thought.

  

  All in all, a sorry fate for a man who'[d once shown such promise.

  CrimeScribe

  April 28, 2018

  True Crime

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• On This Day in 1960 – Henry ‘Snow’ Flakes. Out For The Count.

  

  Meet Henry Flakes. Chances are that even if you’re a boxing fan you’ve probably never heard of him, but you might have done if things had gone differently. Henry was a young up-and-coming heavyweight during the late 1940’s, tipped by many in boxing and the press as a future champion and the best young heavyweight…

  CrimeScribe

  July 17, 2014

  Odds And Ends, True Crime, Uncategorized

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