Rubel, Maud
The 1894 murder in South Omaha of a young white woman named Maud Rubel resulted in a lengthy pursuit of suspects. Although Rubel's "doctor" without a medical degree was ...
Crime
What We Found
Save Our Youth–Grow Watermelon
As you plan to plant your garden, don't forget to include some room for watermelon. You'll notonly be rewarded with luscious fruit that's the perfect antidote to ...
Turn-of-the Century War On Drugs
Cocaine, and the physical, moral, and societal dangers inherent in its use, have been thesubject of recent news stories, magazine articles, television programs, and ...
Gun or Packet, Which?
Who saw what? Who did what? These were the questions that filled the papers in 1907. Thecontroversial incident involved a doctor and a Nebraska National guardsman, both ...
Howard K. Clover’s Picturesque Career
When Howard K. Clover disappeared from Omaha in late May of 1900, the departure of a man called a "Mechanical Don Quixote" by the Omaha Daily Bee, was doubtless a relief ...
Automobile Thieves
The introduction of automobiles was soon followed by the appearance of automobile thieves. The Motorist (Omaha) in its August 1920 issue denounced automobile-related ...
Lechery and Lead
Frontier justice was often swift, if not just. Here's an example from the spring of 1887, whichappeared underneath the headline "Lechery and Lead/A Bullet for a ...
Lightning Rod Salesmen
In the 1880s when Nebraska farmers were moving from sod to frame houses, many bought lighting rods for their new dwellings. The settler might live from twenty to forty ...
Lincoln’s Unsolved Homicides
Nebraska voters adopted a prohibitory amendment to the state constitution in 1916, and it took effect in May 1917, two years before the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. ...
Murder at the Lincoln Hotel: The Irvine-Montgomery Case
The trial of William H. Irvine for the murder of Charles E. Montgomery in October of 1892 in Lancaster County District Court captured statewide (and national) attention. ...
Dodge-McGuire Murder Case
The murder of buffalo hunter James McGuire in 1874 was one of frontier Nebraska's most noted crimes. McGuire's weighted body was found October 4, 1874, in the Frenchman ...
Dr. Rustin’s Mysterious Death
The strange death of prominent Omaha physician and surgeon Frederick Rustin in September of 1908 ushered in a series of widely publicized events culminating in ...
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