Stole money to open their own theatre (1939)

Posts from This Journal “crime” Tag

• Cleaning up the history, one plaque at a time

  Mansion Hotel – plaque sanitized and (already mild) references to gangster origins removed: The text on the hotel's website changed the…

• Capture of the bandit Vahkader, who was terrorizing the region (1906)

  Le Petit journal. Supplément illustré, 21 Oct 1906. Image: Harvard. News about the capture of Vah Ka-der: From the…

• A Lonely Ghost on West Nanjing Road

  This building was once a family-run hotel, called the Chelsea House. Located on a prime spot on Bubbling Well Road, it was set back from the…