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True Crime Historian

Mystery at the American Saloon

True Crime Historian

Pulpular Media

True Crime

4.5720 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Saga of the Scoundrel Thomas McGehan
A true crime short story by Richard O Jones

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Episode 28 takes place on Christmas Eve 1870, when three men attack a local politician with boulders and slungshots, and at least a dozen men scramble for the door while five shots pepper the faro room at the American Saloon in Hamilton, Ohio, the hometown of True Crime Historian Richard O Jones. One of the bullets kills the politician, Thomas Myers, but in their haste none of the gamblers see who fired the shot. The blame falls on the leader of the gang of thugs who attacked Myers, his political rival Tom McGehean. At his trial, the famed former Congressman, exiled Copperhead, and gubernatorial candidate, Clement Vallandigham literally gives his life for McGehean's defense.


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0:00.0

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0:36.2

1870 a christmas crime It may not be a pleasant thing to reflect upon,

0:43.2

but the little city of Hamilton has no reason to be proud of her record of crime. There is blood

0:48.6

upon her historic pages, from the day of Matt Anthony Wayne down to the last one reeled from the calendar.

0:55.0

It may have been that the warlike spirit which filled the veins of those veterans,

0:59.0

who marked the site of the town with that ancient fort, was never fully eradicated.

1:04.0

We don't say it disparagingly, because Hamilton is a good town,

1:08.0

and the elements which comprise it will compare favorably with those of any other Ohio City.

1:13.6

But the town has had a streak of bad luck. It has had the misfortune to entertain, in its time,

1:19.6

quite a number of gentlemen who lacked that thorough appreciation of human life,

1:23.6

which goes far toward making up the model citizen.

1:26.6

In fact, this want of appreciation was

1:30.2

of that negative character which would have better adorned a resident of Cheyenne or Virginia

1:35.0

City in their palmy days than the burger of a lymphatic, phlegmatic, half-German Ohio City.

1:42.9

It has been a standing reproach in Hamilton

1:45.1

in the fact that the town was losing its grip

1:47.9

if it couldn't point to at least one murder a year. True Crime Historian presents True Crime Storytime, a reading of a true crime short story

2:23.9

story by Richard O. Jones. On Christmas Eve, 1870, three men attack a local politician with

2:31.1

boulders and slung shots, and at least a dozen men scramble for the

2:35.1

door, while five shots pepper the pharaoh room at the American saloon in Hamilton, Ohio.

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