Centenaries - whole and half

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150 years ago - 1866 June 13 - Henry Bulger is murdered as two men are broken out of a jail in Missouri. Suspicion is that Jesse and Frank James were involved.

Old Dingus

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150 years ago - 1866 June 13 - Henry Bulger is murdered as two men are broken out of a jail in Missouri. Suspicion is that Jesse and Frank James were involved.

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150 years ago - 1866 June 12 - In New Zealand, the Burgess Gang robs and murders James Battle. The following day, the band killed four more men in an even bigger robbery. Richard Burgess and two of his cohorts were eventually convicted of the murders and hanged.

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50 years ago - 1966 June 10 - The remains of Jeannette Messer, 56, are found in a park. She had been raped and murdered by Posteal Laskey, aka The Cincinnati Strangler. The serial killer was eventually sentenced to life and died incarcerated in 2007.

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50 years ago - 1966 June 9 - Winifred Sharp, a 50-year-old postal worker in Leeds, England, is shot and killed at her workplace. Mrs. Sharp's murder was never solved.

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150 years ago - 1866 June 8 - In Pennsylvania, Anton Probst is executed by hanging for battering eight people to death at the Dearing Family farm where he was employed. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. Dearing, their children, a relative and a co-worker.

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600 years ago - 1416 May 30 - Church reformer Jerome of Prague is burned at the stake for heresy in the Holy Roman Empire (now German) city of Konstanz.

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50 years ago - 1966 May 24 - A small time London gangster named Ernest Isaacs is found shot dead in his home. The victim was an associate of rivals of the Kray Brothers Gang but this did not lead to solving the murder.

[Pcdunn]

I agree.

I had an ancestor who was a major slave owner, probably trader as well, he had kids by at least three slaves (were the woman willing??) though to give him credit he did give them his name and seems to have taken responsibility, at least to some degree, for their advancement in life.

It wasn't uncommon for a white master to provide for his half-blood children, particularly for sons. A recent episode of "Who Do You Think You Are?" told the story of an African-American woman who found out her ancestor was the son of a prominent Texas cattleman who refused to stop using the white man's surname, and eventually inherited a ranch. He also rose to prominence as a black politician in the Reconstruction period. His house now has a plaque on it.

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I think it would have, sadly, been business as usual. No one would have believed her if she had tried to complain, so she probably would have kept silent. There might have been a trial, if she could find a lawyer, but there is no certainty that she would have received justice against a white rapist.

I agree.

I had an ancestor who was a major slave owner, probably trader as well, he had kids by at least three slaves (were the woman willing??) though to give him credit he did give them his name and seems to have taken responsibility, at least to some degree, for their advancement in life.

[Pcdunn]

A Southern peculiarity-- all too common

And if he had been white and her black????

I think it would have, sadly, been business as usual. No one would have believed her if she had tried to complain, so she probably would have kept silent. There might have been a trial, if she could find a lawyer, but there is no certainty that she would have received justice against a white rapist.

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50 years ago -1966 May 23 - Forty-year-old Loren Bollinger, an Ohio State University Columbus scientist, is robbed, shot and killed. Police matched the .25 caliber bullets in his body to the same gun that was used in the robberies and murders of two service station attendants in the previous eight months. Today, all three murders remain unsolved.

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50 years ago - 1966 May 20 - After leaving a meeting at a Virginia church, Addison Wilkins, 20, and Malcolm Norment, 41, are robbed, shot and killed. Eventually, serial killing brothers William and Thomas Penn received life terms for these and other murders.

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50 years ago - 1966 May 17 - Edith Post, 62, dies unexpectedly after checking into New Jersey's Riverdell Hospital. She was one of nine non-critical admittees to expire there mysteriously in eleven month's time. Dr. Mario Jascalevich was charged with using curare to murder some of the individuals but was acquitted, leaving the cases unsolved. The doctor returned to his native Argentina after the trial and died there in 1984.

50 years ago - 1966 May 17 - In the rural hills of Pennsylvania, serial sniper William Hollenbaugh shoots and kills FBI Agent Terry Anderson, his only actual fatality. The next day, Hollenbaugh was killed while resisting arrest.

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100 years ago - 1916 May 15 - After he was convicted of the rape and murder of Lucy Fryer, Jesse Washinton, 17, is dragged from a Waco, Texas courtroom, tortured and emasculated then hung over a bonfire and burned alive. Washington was black and the murder victim was white.

And if he had been white and her black????