If the attached A Few Lines upon the Awful Execution of John Ormesby & Matthew Cushing intrigues, get to know America’s “first celebrity burglar” via a profile from friend of the site Anthony Vaver (author of Bound with an Iron Chain and Early American Criminals).
On this day..
- 1271: Not Nichiren, at the Tatsunokuchi Persecution
- 1902: Jim Buchanan, escaping lynching
- 1976: Masacre de Los Surgentes, during the Dirty War
- 1968: Harun Thohir and Usman Janatin, for the MacDonald House bombing
- 1677: John S., William Fletcher, and Robert Perkins
- 1817: Maggie Houghtaling
- 1698: Six Streltsy of rank
- 1934: Harry Pierpont, Dillinger mentor
- 1859: Danford Balch, inadvertent PDX benefactor
- 1999: Zein al-Abidine al-Mihdar, Yemeni terrorist
- 1409: Jean de Montagu
- 1622: Anne de Chantraine, young witch