Archive for: January 2010

January 3, 2010

Tactics in death of Old West outlaws

Filed under: old American news - 03 Jan 2010

This old newspaper article describes how two outlaws in the Old West who ambushed a Wells Fargo stage were soon afterwards ambushed by a security guard who was riding as a ‘passenger’ on the stage.
It’s an unusual story because …

January 1, 2010

Police arrest fortune teller

Filed under: Bizarre weird unusual news - 01 Jan 2010

Fortune telling was once (and might still be) illegal in certain jurisdictions, as this old newspaper article about the police arresting a fortune teller reveals
The article (see below) describes how a ‘Perkins Stratton’, who is described as a ‘botanist and …