Wicked Victorian Boston

Wicked Bostonians

Adolph Albrecht
Killed cheating faro dealers.
Shot and killed the cheating dealers.
Dr. Charles L Blood
Quack Doctor.
Inventor of the popular fraudulent cure, oxygenized air.
Warry S Charles
(alias: Joe Swen)
Chinese interpreter.
Hired to help police, Charles became a violent gang leader.
Elmer Chickering
Photographer.
Arrested for producing obscene pictures of society girls.
Ah Moy Chong
(At the Fan Tan table)
Leader of Chinatown's Moy company.
Engagned in gambling, opium, extortion.
Emery "Bose" Cobb
(Picture unavailable)
"The Wickedest Man in Boston"
Gambling, prositution, liquor.
Emma Coolidge
(alias: Mrs. Hamilton)
Murder-for-Hire Conspirator.
Police officer's wife who hired a hitman.
Miss Lillie Darlling
(Picture unavailable)
Spirit Medium.
Published new verses from a dead poet.
James Donahoe
(alias: John Bull)
Private Detective.
Adept at working both sides of the law.
William W Downs
Charismatic Baptist Minister.
Caught in bed with a married parishioner.
Jimmy "The Kid" Fitzgerald
Confidence man.
Swindled Charles Francis Adams out of $20,000.
Barney Ford
(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.
Ezra Heywood
Free-love Advocate.
Arrested for selling sexual literature through the mail.
Angela Heywood
Free-Love Advocate, Sexual Educator.
Co-founder, with Ezra, of the New England Free Love League.
Chauncy Larkin
(alias: Lieutennt Hunter)
Confidence man.
Specialized in defrauding military contractors.
Thomas J Loud
Prominent State Street Banker
Was sued for divorce after abusing his wife.
Increase Mather
Massachusetts Puritan Leader
His ban on theatre lasted 100+ years.
Lizzie Merchant
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.
Edward Steven Sanborn
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.
John L Sullivan
("The Boston Strong Boy")
Champion Boxer.
Drunkard, bully, and wife-beater.
Annie Taber
Alleged Adulteress.
Caught in bed with Rev. Downs.
Edward "Chicken" Welch
(Picture unavailable)
Leader of the Albany Street Gang.
Violent burglar, highwayman, and hoodlum.

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