The Last Days of Cleveland

by Bellamy, John Stark, II

• ISBN13: 9781598510676
• ISBN10: 1598510673
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-01
• Publisher: Gray & Co

Summary

West Park sisters Helen, 11, and Marguerite, 10, who died after eating Rough-on-Rats brand poison in their grandmother's basement-victims of a genetic "suicide mania," or driven to death by the cruelest caretaker since Hansel and Gretel's stepmom?

Author Biography

John Stark Bellamy II was the history specialist for the Cuyahoga County Public Library. He comes by his taste for the sensational honestly: Bellamy grew up reading stories about Cleveland crimes and disasters written by his grandfather, Paul, editor of the Plain Dealer for 20 years, and his father, Peter, who wrote for the Cleveland News and the Plain Dealer. He is the author of five other collections of Cleveland crime and disaster stories.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Suffer the Children
The 1907 Curtis Horror	p. 15
Some People Never Learn
The Specs Russell Saga	p. 35
"A Little Excitement"
The Star-Crossed Corrigan Family	p. 69
"I Dle an Innocent Man!"
The Gruesome Death of William Beatson	p. 99
Ohio City Shootout
The 1875 Murder of Michael Kick	p. 115
Cleveland's First Disasters
The Perils of Ben, and His Startling Escape	p. 125
A Tragic Voyage	p. 129
Murder on the Shaker Road
The Strange Deaths of John and Josiah White	p. 135
Fireman's Fireman
The George Wallace Legend	p. 141
The Last Days of Cleveland
The 1925 Adventist Hysteria	p. 157
All Unhappy Families Are Not Alike
The Ashtabula McAdams Family Values	p. 169
"They Say I've Been Killing Someoneà"
The Butchery of Greenberry Hood	p. 175
Shabby Death on Sheriff Street
The Murder of Louis Weik	p. 189
Third-Rate Romance, Prospect Avenue
The Murder of?	p. 197
Cleveland's Greatest Historian
S.J. Kelly's Forgotten Treasures	p. 237
My First Disaster
How I Got to Be "The Cleveland Historian Your Mother Warned You About"	p. 249
Photo Credits	p. 255
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