Ep. 67 - Haunted by Gloomy & Terrible Thoughts

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have ghosts throwing potato chips, female poison serial killers, the body of a murderer on display for the general public, a horrible uxoricide, a naked women in prison attempting to "dash her brains out," a life of romance and suffering and fancy, lady's-only gambling parlors. No boys allowed!

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References:

“Virginian Ghosts” - The Times-Picayune, Nov. 23, 1874.

“Mr. J. Davis” - The Spiritualist, - The Spiritualist, Dec. 17th, 1869.

“A Woman Poisons Her Husband’s Food in Stark County, Indiana” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Murderer’s Body on Exhibition” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Prisoner Leaps from a Court Room Window in Kansas City, Mo., and Escapes” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

“Horrible Uxoricide” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“An Inconsiderate Parent” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Wrangle Over the Remains of Botts the Murderer” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 8th, 1872.

“Miss Eva G. Vallee, the Pretty Female Prisoner, Simulates a Fit and Attempts Suicide in the Central Police Station, New York City” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“A Sad Story” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

“The She-Gamblers of San Francisco” - The Illustrated Police News, Feb. 15th, 1872.

"Police Report" - The Leavenworth Times, Jul. 30th, 1872. 

"Forestalling the Gallows" - The Courier-Journal, Mar. 27th, 1872

"Confidence Woman Convicted" - The Daily Evening Herald, Apr. 13th, 1872

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_chips

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon%27s_Lake_House

https://deathpenaltyusa.org/usa1/date/1872.htm

https://publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/Blume-final.pdf

https://mrsdaffodildigresses.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/women-gamblers-of-new-york-1884/

https://www.victorianweb.org/history/leisure/gambling1.html

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