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ISBN
9781886228030
Book Title
They Died Crawling : and Other Tales of Cleveland Woe
Item Length
8.5 in
Publisher
Gray & Company, Publishers
Publication Year
1995
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
John S. Bellamy II
Genre
True Crime, History
Topic
Murder / General, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz
Number of Pages
229 Pages

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The foulest crimes and worst disasters in Cleveland historyare recounted in these 15 incredible-but-true tales, including: A no-holds-barred account of the infamous and sensational Sam Sheppard murder trial; The apocalyptic East Ohio Gas Company explosionand fire of 1944 that destroyed the entire east-side Norwood-St. Clair neighborhood; The chilling 1919 Dan Kaber murder, in which three generations of Lakewood women--mother, daughter, and grandmother--conspired to dispose of an inoffensive husband with arsenic and knife-wielding hired killers; Genius inventor Garrett A. Morgan's dramatic gas-masked rescue efforts during the gruesome 1916 waterworks collapse; Cleveland Electric Railway Car 642's horrifying plungeoff the Central Viaduct into the Cuyahoga River in the Flats; The weird tale of industrialist Joe Gogan's trial for murdering his wife--by hitting her in the face with a bag of rat poison; These gripping narratives deliver high drama and dark comedy, heroes and villains, obsession, courage, treachery, deceit, fear, and guilt--all from the streets of Cleveland. "A rollicking, no-holds-barred account of the facts (and continued speculation) about some of the darkest events and weirdest people in Cleveland's history."-- Youngstown Vindicator

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN-10
1886228035
ISBN-13
9781886228030
eBay Product ID (ePID)
549310

Product Key Features

Book Title
They Died Crawling : and Other Tales of Cleveland Woe
Author
John S. Bellamy II
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
Publication Year
1995
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, History
Number of Pages
229 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
F499.C657b45 1995
Reviews
A rollicking, no-holds-barred account of the facts (and continued speculation) about some of the darkest events and weirdest people in Cleveland's history., Bellamy's wit is in evidence . . . The tales are told with clarity, compassion and a frankness of style.
Table of Content
Preface 1. Cleveland's Saddest Fourth: The 1908 S. S. Kresge Fireworks Explosion 2. Horror On The Heights: The 1910 Murder of William Lowe Rice 3. "They Died Crawling": The 1916 Waterworks Tunnel Explosion 4. She Got Her Money's Worth: Eva Kaber, Lakewood's 1919 Lady Borgia 5. Streets Of Hell: The 1944 East Ohio Gas Company Explosion and Fire 6. "God, The Devil, Man or Beast": The Incredible 1923 Saga of John Leonard Whitfield 7. "Five Minutes Out of Nowhere": The 1932 Ellington Apartments Inferno 8. "Cold Lead for Breakfast": The 1870 Galentine-Jones Melodrama 9. "Horror of All Horrors!": The 1895 Central Viaduct Disaster 10. Death Takes a Powder: Hazel Gogan's Bizarre 1950 Demise 11. Third Man at Hamilton: The Rise and Fall of Judge William H. McGannon, 1920-1921 12. Red Dawn in Cleveland: The 1919 May Day Riots 13. High Noon at Bedford: The Violent Saga of "Jiggs" Losteiner, Cleveland's Baddest Man 14. Breath of Death: The 1929 Cleveland Clinic Disaster 15. "We're Going to Burn You . . .": The Enduring Sheppard Tragedy
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2022-439506
Dewey Decimal
977.132

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  • great!

    as a guy who live a few miles from cleveland,i found this book, as interesting as anything ive ever read,i have bought copies for friend also, great short stories, nowdays unknown,thanks to the author for writing it