Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley
With Wicked Carlisle, author Joe Cress revisits the criminal history of Cumberland County. Taking a more focused and less bloody approach, Cress will largely bring new stories of mischief to the table, though he will revisit the lighter side of two or three crimes from Murder and Mayhem in Cumberland County. From stories of college pranks gone wrong, Carlisle's own Robin Hood and the robbing and subsequent torching of a beloved local theater (the Strand where the local HS now sits ) to abuses at the Carlisle Indian School and the town's connection to the raid on Harper's Ferry, Cress scours the underbelly of the borough for mischief and misdeeds.
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Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley
With Wicked Carlisle, author Joe Cress revisits the criminal history of Cumberland County. Taking a more focused and less bloody approach, Cress will largely bring new stories of mischief to the table, though he will revisit the lighter side of two or three crimes from Murder and Mayhem in Cumberland County. From stories of college pranks gone wrong, Carlisle's own Robin Hood and the robbing and subsequent torching of a beloved local theater (the Strand where the local HS now sits ) to abuses at the Carlisle Indian School and the town's connection to the raid on Harper's Ferry, Cress scours the underbelly of the borough for mischief and misdeeds.
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Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley

Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley

by Joseph Cress
Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley
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Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley

Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley

by Joseph Cress

Overview

With Wicked Carlisle, author Joe Cress revisits the criminal history of Cumberland County. Taking a more focused and less bloody approach, Cress will largely bring new stories of mischief to the table, though he will revisit the lighter side of two or three crimes from Murder and Mayhem in Cumberland County. From stories of college pranks gone wrong, Carlisle's own Robin Hood and the robbing and subsequent torching of a beloved local theater (the Strand where the local HS now sits ) to abuses at the Carlisle Indian School and the town's connection to the raid on Harper's Ferry, Cress scours the underbelly of the borough for mischief and misdeeds.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781609495251
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 07/10/2012
Series: Wicked
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Joseph David Cress is an award-winning journalist with almost twenty years of full-time newspaper experience. For eleven years, he has worked as a staff reporter with the Sentinel in Carlisle. His first book, Remembering Carlisle: Tales from the Cumberland Valley, was released in November 2009. Murder & Mayhem in Cumberland County is his second book with The History Press. Cress lives in York, Pennsylvania, with his wife Stacey, dogs Dottie and Rosco and cats Chewie and Boone.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 5

Introduction 7

Part I Frontier Felons 9

Temple of Fame: The Plight of Christopher Shockey 10

My Manifold Crimes: Lewis the Robber 16

Part II Cruel Days 27

A Passion to Tatters: Town-Gown Troubles 28

Impulse of the Moment: Nasty College Pranks 36

False Fabric…Liquor Evil: Indian School Woes 43

Part IJJ Lurid Legends 55

Hanger-On: Rowdy Old Schimmel 56

A Warm Reception: The Jack the Hugger Affair 63

Moral Plague Spot: The House of Cora 66

A Carlisle Institution: Madam Bessie Jones 72

Part IV Devilish Doings 81

Issue of Identity: The Extradition of Albert Hazlett 82

Infernal Machine: The Story of Charley Foulk 90

Fire Fiends: An Arson Ring Broken 100

Closed Curtain: The Strand Theatre Arson 110

Bibliography 119

About the Author 128

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