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Murder & mayhem in Mendon and Honeoye Falls : "Murderville" in Victorian New York / Diane Ham and Lynne Menz.
- Title
- Murder & mayhem in Mendon and Honeoye Falls : "Murderville" in Victorian New York / Diane Ham and Lynne Menz.
- Author
- Ham, Diane C.
- Publication
- Charleston : The History Press, 2013.
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- Additional Authors
- Menz, Lynne.
- Description
- 126 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- Summary
- "A chronicle of murder and crime in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Mendon and Honeoye Falls"--
- "The town of Mendon and the village of Honeoye Falls are today quiet western New York suburbs, but they weren't always so idyllic. In years past, the village was a center of commerce, manufacturing and railroads,and by the mid-nineteenth century, this prosperity brought with it an element of mayhem. Horse stealing was commonplace. Saloons and taverns were abundant. Street scuffles and bar room brawls were regular, especially on Saturday nights, after the laborers were paid. By Sunday morning, numerous drunks--like Manley Locke, who would eventually go on to kill another man in a fight--were confined to the "lock up" in the village hall. It was at this time that the village of Honeoye Falls earned the name "Murderville." As the town and village turn two hundred, join local historians Diane Ham and Lynne Menz as they explore the peaceful region's vicious history"--
- Subject
- Crime > Mendon (Town) > History
- Murder > Mendon (Town) > History
- Crime > Honeoye Falls > History
- Murder > Honeoye Falls > History
- TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- Mendon (N.Y. : Town) > History
- Honeoye Falls (N.Y.) > History
- Mendon (N.Y. : Town) > Social conditions
- Honeoye Falls (N.Y.) > Social conditions
- Mendon (N.Y. : Town) > Biography
- Honeoye Falls (N.Y.) > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [117]-124).
- Contents
- Honeoye Falls' Good Name Tainted -- "I'm a Dead Man" -- Insanity Kills Again -- Burglary of the Post Office -- Another Starr Murdered -- Murder or Self-Defense? -- Murder at the Junction -- Money Mayhem -- Misses Dog, Kills Wife -- Love-Lost Murder -- Ontario Street Murder -- Dead Under the Tree -- "I Thought She Was Dead" -- Junkyard Murder -- Railroad Mayhem -- Miscellaneous Mayhem.
- ISBN
- 9781626191419 (paperback)
- 1626191417 (paperback)
- LCCN
- ^^2013029706
- OCLC
- 851035213
- SCSB-11189928
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library