POLICE BLOTTER & COURT NEWS – JUNE 19, 1868

POLICE BLOTTER & COURT NEWS – JUNE 19, 1868

Author: Forgotten News Podcast April 30, 2018 Duration: 26:34
Strange — But Forgotten: Mini-Episode # 4. A look at the news of various random local arrests and criminal court cases, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, as published verbatim in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, on June 19, 1868.  A true "slice of life", from a single day in the 19th century.  HISTORICAL REFERENCES: Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 19 & 26, 1868. GUEST VOICES: Police Blotter Reporter / Narrator - K.D. Burr, the host of the Southern Grimoire podcast. Police Blotter Intro Title Voice – Jeff Richardson, co-host of Everything is Awesome with Jeff & KC podcast and the Shattered Worlds RPG podcast. Judge / Call to Order - Edward LeSaint, free-lance actor & voice artist. Judge / Adjournment – Harry Morgan, free-lance actor & voice artist. Intro & Outro – Host Intro – Nina Innsted, host of the Already Gone podcast. Outro Aphorism – Kit Caren, co-host of Forgotten News Podcast.   MUSIC: Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com – Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses / by 3.0 Americana I Knew a Guy Simple Music to Frighten Small Children By Freesound.org: crime_mystery_roll Passing Through Jozi Bentley, host of the the Moo Point: A Friends Podcast and the My Dream Podcast. SOUND EFFECTS: Freesound.org: whizzind_transition Gavel_-_3_Strikes_with_room_reverb Tinkerbell.   OUTRO APHORISM: Source:  Captain Alexander S. (“Clubber”) Williams of the New York City Police Department (1839-1917), as quoted in The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld (1928), by Herbert Asbury, at p. 162, 217–219, 230–231 & 233, and Low Life (1990), by Luc Sante, p. 247-48.  (Note: There are numerous different variations of this quote, depending on the chosen source).    T-SHIRTS, MUGS, AND OTHER SWAG - NOW AVAILABLE! Just click here!   HEY!  CONTACT US:   E-Mail:  ForgottenNewsPodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Forgotten-News-Podcast Twitter: @NewsForgotten @KitCaren   HEY! CAN YOU HELP US?! PLEASE HELP THE FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST TO COVER THE COSTS OF RESEARCH, INVESTIGATION, AUDIO EQUIPMENT. AND PODCAST HOSTING FEES.   ANY DONATION - EVEN A DOLLAR - WOULD REALLY HELP US OUT!   Just click on this PayPal link, to contribute. PAYPAL Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

There’s a certain kind of story that crackles with urgency when it breaks, dominating conversations and front pages, only to vanish completely a few years later. FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST goes looking for those stories. Each episode is a deep dive into a different moment that once captivated the public, an event or figure that seemed indelible but somehow slipped through the cracks of our collective memory. You’ll hear about scandals that toppled empires of reputation, inventions that promised to change everything, and personal dramas that played out on a very public stage-all now quietly gathering dust in old newspaper archives and forgotten diaries. The aim isn’t just to recount these tales, but to understand why they resonated so powerfully in their moment and explore what their disappearance says about how we remember. It’s a process of careful excavation, piecing together narratives from primary sources, historical accounts, and the cultural echoes that remain. Tuning into this podcast feels like opening a long-lost trunk in the attic; every story is presented with the immediacy it once held, allowing you to experience the surprise, outrage, or wonder just as an audience did decades or even centuries ago. These are the headlines that time edited out, brought back to life.
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