Author: John Thiel
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ISBN: 9780692097045
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Languages : en
Pages : 136
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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
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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."
The Presbyterian Monthly Record
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Pages : 558
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John Blackie, the Bridgeton colporteur, a memoir, ed. by W. Gillies
Author: rev. John Blackie
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Home and Foreign Record of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Home and Foreign Record of the Presbyterian Church
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Languages : en
Pages : 1568
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Pages : 1568
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Death and the Running Patterer
Author: Robin Adair
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101445610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
1828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage? Nicodemus Dunne was a London policeman. After being deported on trumped up charges of assault, he now makes his living in New South Wales as a running patterer, spreading the news of the day by word of mouth. Confronted with a series of gruesome and horribly inventive murders, the governor seeks out Dunne for his investigative skills and his ability to infiltrate all levels of society. With each mutilated body, the murderer has left clues for Dunne to decipher. Can he put the pieces of the puzzle together and catch his elusive quarry without becoming prey himself?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101445610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
1828: Sydney is a city built on the backs of exiled convicts. But in a colony of criminals, how do you narrow down the list of suspects when a murderer is on the rampage? Nicodemus Dunne was a London policeman. After being deported on trumped up charges of assault, he now makes his living in New South Wales as a running patterer, spreading the news of the day by word of mouth. Confronted with a series of gruesome and horribly inventive murders, the governor seeks out Dunne for his investigative skills and his ability to infiltrate all levels of society. With each mutilated body, the murderer has left clues for Dunne to decipher. Can he put the pieces of the puzzle together and catch his elusive quarry without becoming prey himself?
The Home and Foreign Record of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
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Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Claude the Colporteur
Author: Anne Manning
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Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society
Author: British and Foreign Bible Society
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.
The Christian Observer
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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