Wicked Watertown

by Jannke, William F., III

• ISBN13: 9781596298613
• ISBN10: 1596298618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-31
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Watertown is a perfect place to raise children, where criminal mischief and scandal are the rare exception to the rule. Discover over a century and a half's worth of exceptions. Travel back to the origins of Watertown, when the house next door might be a brothel and the man on the street might be a serial killer. Hear the tale of poor ninety-five-year-old Mary Kodesch, whose son left her to freeze to death in the barn, and that of the two young boys whose 1890 campaign of arson targeted everything from a church to a box factory. Then press on into the violent history of the Cleveland Street poltergeist house as Jannke delivers a thrilling combination of thoroughly researched fact and inexplicable mystery that will leave the hardiest Watertown residents torn between eagerly turning the page and nervously looking over their shoulders. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Law and Order	p. 9
Call Me Madam	p. 15
A Death in the Family	p. 24
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire	p. 36
What Goes On Behind Closed Doors	p. 46
Robbers, Rascals and Ruffians	p. 54
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing	p. 63
Ghostly Encounters	p. 73
The Merry Ministers of Watertown	p. 81
Select Bibliography	p. 93
About the Author	p. 95
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