Wicked Victorian Boston

Wicked Bostonians

Killed cheating faro dealers.
Shot and killed the cheating dealers.
Quack Doctor.
Inventor of the popular fraudulent cure, oxygenized air.
(alias: Joe Swen)
Chinese interpreter.
Hired to help police, Charles became a violent gang leader.
Photographer.
Arrested for producing obscene pictures of society girls.
(At the Fan Tan table)
Leader of Chinatown's Moy company.
Engagned in gambling, opium, extortion.
Emery "Bose" Cobb
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"The Wickedest Man in Boston"
Gambling, prositution, liquor.
(alias: Mrs. Hamilton)
Murder-for-Hire Conspirator.
Police officer's wife who hired a hitman.
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Spirit Medium.
Published new verses from a dead poet.
(alias: John Bull)
Private Detective.
Adept at working both sides of the law.
Charismatic Baptist Minister.
Caught in bed with a married parishioner.
Confidence man.
Swindled Charles Francis Adams out of $20,000.
(In the Rat Pit)
Saloon Keeper-Rat Pit Manager.
His North Street saloon featured rat baiting.
Frank H Hart
Champion Pedestrian Racer.
Stole the prize money of a six-day race.
Free-love Advocate.
Arrested for selling sexual literature through the mail.
Free-Love Advocate, Sexual Educator.
Co-founder, with Ezra, of the New England Free Love League.
(alias: Lieutennt Hunter)
Confidence man.
Specialized in defrauding military contractors.
Prominent State Street Banker
Was sued for divorce after abusing his wife.
Massachusetts Puritan Leader
His ban on theatre lasted 100+ years.
Captive Sex Slave.
Fifteen-year-old girl held captive in a West End brothel.
Henry Morgan
Reform Preacher.
Had a team of investigators who documented Boston vice.
Brothel Keeper.
Led a double life - sinful in Boston, pious in New Hampshire.
Edward E Savage
Chief of Police.
Tried to clean up the Black Sea vice district.
("The Boston Strong Boy")
Champion Boxer.
Drunkard, bully, and wife-beater.
Alleged Adulteress.
Caught in bed with Rev. Downs.
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Leader of the Albany Street Gang.
Violent burglar, highwayman, and hoodlum.