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Showing posts with label Ellen Poulsen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ellen Poulsen. Show all posts
16 April 2018

F.B.I.'s Doris Lockerman -- 2nd in a Series on 1930s Women in Policing

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Doris Lockerman T he blood was still wet on Chicago's sidewalks when a former F.B.I. private secretary sat down to pen her recoll...
07 January 2018

Indiana's Policewomen in the Dillinger Saga

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Stories about cops and robbers usually feature -- you guessed it, the robber!  In the Great Depression era of the desperado, two women of  s...
12 September 2017

Eighty Years Ago in F.B.I. History - The Firing of Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach

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He was livin' in the U.S.A., as the song title goes.  Because of his privileged status as a law enforcement officer in the democracy cal...
15 August 2017

Meyer Lansky: Opponent of the American Nazi Bund

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Meyer Lansky was a mobster who today is known for his longevity and intensity. A taciturn man, Meyer Lansky nevertheless put his money w...
19 May 2017

The Long Black Veil: The Widows of Frankie Yale

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Before 1925, women associated with mobsters were rarely seen in the newspapers.  The mob funeral, which spawned a mid-1920s genre of photojo...
07 March 2017

Framed and Defamed

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Framed and Defamed:  Stephanie St. Clair Meets Samuel Seabury Stephanie St. Clair was known as the "Harlem Policy Queen."...
27 January 2017

Crime Does Not Pay -- Serialized Morality Tales of the 1930s

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In 1935, crime spree bandits like Midwestern desperadoes Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson had been killed.  Likewise, inner-city gangsters of ...
06 January 2017

Her Face for the World To See

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Her Face for the World to See In the era of Harold Robbins, she wrote the book on love, mob-style.  From the mid-1950s to 1961 Liz Renay ...