Murder & Mayhem on Ohio's Rails

by Jane Ann Turzillo

Overview

Ride Ohio's rails with some of the bravest trainmen and most vicious killers and robbers to ever roll down the tracks.

The West may have had Jesse James and Butch Cassidy, but Ohio had its own brand of train robbers. Discover how Alvin Karpis knocked off an Erie Railroad train and escaped with $34,000. Learn about the first peacetime train holdup that took place in North Bend when thieves derailed the Kate Jackson, robbed its passengers and blew the Adam's Express safe. Make no mistake—railroading was a dangerous job in bygone days.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781540209269
Publisher:	History Press Library Editions
Publication date:	01/21/2014
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Jane Ann Turzillo writes about Ohio history and true crime. Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio combines both. She was one of the original owners of the West Side Leader, a large northeast Ohio weekly newspaper, where she covered police news and wrote a historical crime column. She has won several Ohio Press Women awards for fiction and nonfiction and is the author of two historical books on Bath Township and Hudson, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction 11

1 Rob Every Damned Man 13

2 A Man of Nerve 19

3 Wanted! For the Murder of Detective Hulligan 25

4 Shot Down in Cold Blood 41

5 The Dynamite-Proof Safe 55

6 A Fusillade of Bullets 63

7 Messenger Threatened, Bound Hand and Foot 77

8 He Did It for Love 85

9 Loot Sold Cheap 105

10 Public Enemy Number One Executes Last Great Train Robbery 111

Sources 121

Index 125

About the Author 127