Centenaries - whole and half

[Rosella]

I frequently use Squiz in that context.

Yes, but I was just thinking the other day when I heard it that you wouldn't get any Gen Y's or Z's saying it, Gut. All the old slang is going, even 'Fair dinkum', which I love.

You are right, his names were Joseph Theodore Leslie, and he never used any of them!

[GUT]

An added point he was born in the year of JtR.

[GUT]

You still occasionally hear someone here in Oz say "Have a squiz at this" that is 'have a look' He was supposed to have had a squint as a child, with his little beady eyes darting everywhere, and schoolmates gave him the name. He apparently hated his first name, Leslie, so the nickname stuck.

I think (may be wrong) his first name was Joseph, Leslie was about 4th on the list, he had one of those names that took a page to write.

[GUT]

Squizzy was suspected of threatening witnesses and paying off jurors on several occasions I believe.

No Squizzy would do that surely.

[GUT]

You still occasionally hear someone here in Oz say "Have a squiz at this" that is 'have a look' He was supposed to have had a squint as a child, with his little beady eyes darting everywhere, and schoolmates gave him the name. He apparently hated his first name, Leslie, so the nickname stuck.

I frequently use Squiz in that context.

[Rosella]

You still occasionally hear someone here in Oz say "Have a squiz at this" that is 'have a look' He was supposed to have had a squint as a child, with his little beady eyes darting everywhere, and schoolmates gave him the name. He apparently hated his first name, Leslie, so the nickname stuck.

[Ginger]

Squizzy was suspected of threatening witnesses and paying off jurors on several occasions I believe.

Now I'm curious. What's the significance (if any) of the name "Squizzy"?

[Rosella]

Squizzy was suspected of threatening witnesses and paying off jurors on several occasions I believe.

[GUT]

100 years ago - 1916 February 29 - In Victoria, Australia, taxi driver William Haines is shot and killed after being called out for a false fare. Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor and John Williamson were tried for the crime but were acquitted. The murder case remains officially unsolved.

With Squizzy involved not many really think it is unsolved.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 February 29 - In Victoria, Australia, taxi driver William Haines is shot and killed after being called out for a false fare. Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor and John Williamson were tried for the crime but were acquitted. The murder case remains officially unsolved.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 February 27 - The mutilated body of 27-year-old prostitute Anna Dowlingkoa is found outside of Sydney, Australia. She'd vanished after leaving a downtown nightclub earlier in the month. Her murder has never been solved.

[GUT]

I believe that Schmidt was the first and only Roman Catholic priest to be executed for a murder in New York State. I can't say about other states.

Jeff

The only one in the USA I believe also thought to have committed the murder of a little girl and to have been involved in counterfeiting.

[Mayerling]

100 years ago - 1916 February 18 - Hans Schmidt is put to death in Sing Sing's electric chair for murder. As a Roman Catholic priest, Schmidt had cut the throat of Anna Aumuller, a woman he'd gotten pregnant, then dismembered her body and thrown the remains into the Hudson River. Some also suspect him of killing a 9-year-old girl at another parish in Louisville, Kentucky.

I believe that Schmidt was the first and only Roman Catholic priest to be executed for a murder in New York State. I can't say about other states.

Jeff

[sdreid]

300 years ago - 1716 February 24 - In London, James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, is beheaded for treason. The Earl had participated in a Jacobite rebellion with the intent of returning a Catholic monarch to the thrown of England.

50 years ago - 1966 February 24 - The ninth child of Marie Noe, Catherine Noe, dies in Philadelphia of what is said to be SIDS. In the final tally, all 10 of Marie's children will die before they become 15 months old. In 1998, authorities finally figured what was going on and Mrs. Noe wound up pleading guilty to eight counts of second degree murder. It is believed that she suffocated eight of her children, including Catherine, with the other two actually dying of natural causes. The serial child killer got off with probabtion, however, and is still living today at the age of 87.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 February 18 - Hans Schmidt is put to death in Sing Sing's electric chair for murder. As a Roman Catholic priest, Schmidt had cut the throat of Anna Aumuller, a woman he'd gotten pregnant, then dismembered her body and thrown the remains into the Hudson River. Some also suspect him of killing a 9-year-old girl at another parish in Louisville, Kentucky.