Tag: Robert Harmon

• On This Day in 1913 – Jacob Oppenheimer, California’s ‘Human Tiger.’

  

  “The sooner I can cash in my chips the better, as it will save me a lot of trouble and unhappiness.” Jacob Oppenheimer after receiving his death sentence. Caged tigers are solitary, predatory creatures. Constantly pacing their cages, they can inflict violence, disfigurement and death in a split second without as much as a second’s…

  CrimeScribe

  July 12, 2020

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