Tag: Tipperary

• On This Day in 1873 – John Gaffney hanged by future President Grover Cleveland.

  

  A free chapter from ‘Murders, Mysteries and Misdemeanors in New York.’ Grover Cleveland is seldom regarded as an exceptional US President. He wasn’t universally despised (although often deeply unpopular) but not universally admired either. In short, he was a safe and unspectacular pair of hands. He does have one singular attribute setting him apart from…

  CrimeScribe

  February 14, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime

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• On This Day in 1909, Vere Thomas ‘St. Leger’ Goold: A long way from Tipperary.

  A long, long way as it turned out. When Vere Goold took his own life on this day in 1909 he was far from Tipperary (his ancestral home) and everything else he’d ever known. Once the son of a prominent Irish family, a talented boxer and Wimbledon tennis star, he died a convict, murderer and…

  CrimeScribe

  September 8, 2018

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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