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StatusOn Order
LocationMarshall District
TitleCrime & Corruption on the Michigan Railroad: Stories from the Victorian Era
AuthorDelaware, Michael
CollectionAdult New Arrivals
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International Standard Book Number 9781467172363
International Standard Book Number 1467172367
Personal Name Delaware, Michael
Title Statement Crime & Corruption on the Michigan Railroad: Stories from the Victorian Era
Imprint History Press 20260825
Imprint History Press 20260825
Summary, Etc. From the author of Murder in Victorian Western Michigan and Victorian Southwest Michigan True Crime comes more thrilling stories from the Wolverine State's past. As the Michigan Central Railroad company became a juggernaut, the nineteenth-century rail line also devolved into a bastion for crime as morality was often set aside for profit. In 1850, a grand jury indicted fifty men in Jackson County for conspiracy to commit arson after a freight depot in Detroit was set ablaze. When two Grand Trunk locomotives collided in Battle Creek in 1893 killing twenty-seven people, a conductor and an engineer each accused the other, avoiding conviction. A Mineral Ridge train robbery of $70,000 in payroll money destined for miners on the Keweenaw Peninsula was exposed by a former railroad worker involved in the heist, allowing him to escape prosecution and sending four others to prison. Author Michael Delaware unfolds dark stories of corruption and crime from Michigan's Victorian age.

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