Tag: Murder

Gunned Down Grocer

Posted by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Mar 21, 2016 | Historic Miscellania | 1 |

The Butcher, Miller, Love Murder and Madam

by Tiffany Benedict Browne | Oct 10, 2018 | General | 2 |

Local butcher Milton Pouder ambled a few blocks south to his butcher shop on East Washington every...

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Bacteria, Blood & Bad Dreams: The Unsolved Murder of Helen Knabe

by Stephen J. Taylor | Nov 9, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 4 |

How did one of Indiana’s pioneer investigators into STDs and rabies come to a gory end? The...

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Rufus Cantrell, Intruder in the Dust

by Stephen J. Taylor | Oct 19, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 0 |

In 1935, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges weighed in on what mathematicians later called...

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A Chinese Gravestone and a Murder Mystery at 207 Indiana Avenue

by Stephen J. Taylor | Aug 3, 2015 | Historic Miscellania | 1 |

Crown Hill — America’s third-largest public cemetery — has a few hundred...

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Friday Favorite: Which Came First, the McCormick or the Pogue?

by Lisa Lorentz | Mar 7, 2014 | Friday Favorites | 18 |

Indianapolis in 1820 by Alois E. Sinks – showing the point where Washington Street crossed...

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Friday Favorite: Mischief, Murder and Miscellany

by Lisa Lorentz | Nov 22, 2013 | Friday Favorites | 1 |

Not first, second or even third… In 1891 the FOURTH Marion County Jail was constructed at...

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Roselyn Bakeries

by Ryan Hamlett | Jul 9, 2013 | Historic Miscellania | 17 |

Former Roslyn Bakery Store #20 at 5231 E. Washington in Irvington – Photo by Ryan Hamlett On...

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Cold Springs Murders

by Ryan Hamlett | Mar 12, 2013 | Historic Miscellania | 10 |

Tombstone of Jacob Young, behind the Indianapolis Church of Christ on 6001 W. 52 St. This week is...

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