Author: John Thiel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692097045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
On September 18, 1885, the body of a seventeen-year-old boy was found in a hastily dug grave beneath a culvert on a country road south of Dixon, Illinois. It was the remains of one Frank Charles Thiel, a young colporteur of Bible salesman, who hailed from the City of Elgin, seventy-five miles east of Dixon. The young book agent had been brutally murdered. The following narrative is a history of the events surrounding the murder of Frank Thiel that eventually grew into a major news story and subsequent murder trial in Lee County, Illinois during the autumn and winter of 1885-86. Over 130 years after the murder the road where the body was discovered is still named "Bloody Gulch Road."
Death of a Colporteur
Author: John Thiel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692097045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
On September 18, 1885, the body of a seventeen-year-old boy was found in a hastily dug grave beneath a culvert on a country road south of Dixon, Illinois. It was the remains of one Frank Charles Thiel, a young colporteur of Bible salesman, who hailed from the City of Elgin, seventy-five miles east of Dixon. The young book agent had been brutally murdered. The following narrative is a history of the events surrounding the murder of Frank Thiel that eventually grew into a major news story and subsequent murder trial in Lee County, Illinois during the autumn and winter of 1885-86. Over 130 years after the murder the road where the body was discovered is still named "Bloody Gulch Road."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692097045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
On September 18, 1885, the body of a seventeen-year-old boy was found in a hastily dug grave beneath a culvert on a country road south of Dixon, Illinois. It was the remains of one Frank Charles Thiel, a young colporteur of Bible salesman, who hailed from the City of Elgin, seventy-five miles east of Dixon. The young book agent had been brutally murdered. The following narrative is a history of the events surrounding the murder of Frank Thiel that eventually grew into a major news story and subsequent murder trial in Lee County, Illinois during the autumn and winter of 1885-86. Over 130 years after the murder the road where the body was discovered is still named "Bloody Gulch Road."
Home and Foreign Record of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Home and Foreign Record of the Presbyterian Church
The Presbyterian Monthly Record
The Tract Magazine, Or, Christian Miscellany
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Home and Foreign Record of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society
Author: British and Foreign Bible Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.
John Blackie, the Bridgeton colporteur, a memoir, ed. by W. Gillies
Author: rev. John Blackie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Christian Observer
The Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society
Author: British and Foreign Bible Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.