Famous Crimes #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Famous Crimes #8 This issue contains multiple crime stories from police files. One story depicts a counterfeiting and forgery scheme involving a clerk named Jacques and a man named Blackburn, who altered stamps and deeds to defraud the government. Blackburn was convicted and executed for the crime, serving as a cautionary tale about the consequences of fraud. Another story follows detectives pursuing a criminal through city streets and into an Oriental District dive, where they attempt to apprehend their suspect in a tense confrontation involving crowds and narrow escapes.
During San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast era, Bill Nickel earned fearsome notoriety as a master of shanghaing—forcing unsuspecting men aboard outbound ships through cunning and brute force. Operating freely along the waterfront with no written records to betray him, the red-bearded giant becomes one of his own victims when his past finally catches up. This true crime tale follows the rise and reckoning of one of the underworld's most dreaded figures.
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Reprinted in Famous Crimes #9 (1949), Crimes by Women #14 (1950), Startling Terror Tales #12 (1952), Shocking Mystery Cases #58 (1954), Shocking Mystery Cases #59 (1954)
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