Historic Newspapers: Crime-Outlaws-Gunfights-Mobsters-Gangsters

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 5, 1947

* Al 'Scarface' Capone burial
* Former Chicago gangster leader

Page 26 has small and somewhat discrete one column headings: "Capone Buried In Chicago" "Less Than Twoscore at Services in Tent at the Grave" See image for brief report on the burial of infamous mob boss, Al 'Scarface'... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 27, 1947

* Grace Moore killed in airplane crash
* Opera singer & actress - Tennessee Nightingale
* Gangster Al 'Scarface' Capone death

The top of the front page has a two column  headline: "GRACE MOORE DIES IN BURNING PLANE; PRINCE ALSO KILLED" with subheads that include: "Crash In... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, December 19, 1946 

* Newberry, South Carolina 
* School bus crash disaster 

This 60 page newspaper has a small one column headline on page 5: "11 DIE IN SCHOOL BUS HIT BY TRAIN IN FOG"

Tells of the Newberry, South Carolina school bus disaster which collided with a passenger train.

Other... Read full description  

THE DETROIT NEWS, December 13, 1946

* Pennsylvania Railroad trains disaster
* Coulter - Mansfield OH Ohio (1st report)

The front page has a six column headline: "7 Killed, 40 Hurt in Train Wreck" with subheads. (see) First report coverage on the Pennsylvania Railroad three train collision near Mansfield, Ohio.
Complete with 52 pages, rag... Read full description  

THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, Topeka, Kansas, July 27, 1946.

* Roger Malcolm & George Dorsey w/ wives
* Monroe GA Georgia negro massacre (1st report)

This 12 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "Mob of White Men Slaughter Four Negroes", "Two Women Victims; Georgia Lynching Follows Stabbing". 1st report coverage of... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 20, 1946

* Nuremberg trials - Germany - Nazis 
* “Presentation of Documentary Evidence”
* Jewish holocaust - Atrocities against Jews 
* Films showing mass murders at camps

The top of page 6 has a one column heading: "FILMS BACK CHARGE OF GERMAN CRIMES" with subhead. (see... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 4, 1946

* William Joyce executed (1st report)
* Lord Haw-Haw
* Nazi propaganda broadcaster

Page 7 has one column headings announcing: "LORD HAW HAW DIES ON LONDON GIBBET" "Britain's Despised Traitor Is Hanged After Reaffirming His Nazi Beliefs" (see)
Other news, sports and advertisements of... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 14, 1945

* Jewish holocaust revelations 
* Nazi prison guards sentenced to hanged
* Dachau concentration camp 
* German General Anton Dostler execution photo

The top of page 11 has a one column heading: "36 DACHAU KILLERS TO DIE BY HANGING" with subhead.
This was when the extent of... Read full description  

"Monty has a double!"

DAILY EXPRESS, London, October 4, 1945

* Clifton James delivers as "Monty's" body-double
* Great D-Day bluff

The front page has "Monty Has A Double - His D-Day bluff deceived the Germans", with related text and a photo of Lieut. Clifton James as Montgomery. Read the article to learn more details regarding this great deception which... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 22, 1945 

* Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
* Nazi death factory horrors revealed
* Jewish woman gets revenge

Page 5 contains a very compelling article on identifying Nazis leaders involved in the holocaust atrocities on the Jews, with the one column heading: "Belsen Survivor Picks Out Nazis"... Read full description  

STARS & STRIPES, London Edition, July 6, 1945  

* Kaufbeuren-Irsee in Bavaria, Germany 
* Psychiatric hospital atrocities - murders
* Nazi "euthanasia" killing center program 

This was the: "Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations" as noted in the masthead. Penciled at the... Read full description  

THE STARS AND STRIPES, Mediterranean Edition, March 7, 1945 

* Cologne, Germany captured 
* Yanks 

The front page has a banner headline "Yanks Capture Cologne" with subheads. Page 5 includes an article "Al Capone's Brother Faces Murder Rap".

This famous military newspaper has... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 18, 1944

* Jewish Holocaust becoming reality to the public
* Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia exterminations

This 28 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 4: "20 OF 12,000 JEWS ALIVE IN BELGRADE", "1,000 Fled Systematic Murder and Torture by Germans--Children Were Hanged". See photos for... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, August 6, 1944 

* Stockton, Georgia 
* Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 
* Trains collision 

This 60+ page newspaper has a somewhat discrete one column headline on page 32: "45 NEGROES KILLED IN SOUTHERN WRECK".

Tells of the Stockton, Georgia train collision that killed many Negro railroad... Read full description  

THE STAR, Guernsey, Channel Islands, May 30, 1944 This island was occupied by the Germans during World War II so all reporting is pro-Nazi propaganda, yet in English, as residents were British. Among the front page reports: "Anglo-Americans Confronted with Hardest Task in Italy" "Preparing Public for Still More Bitter... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 9, 1943

* Harry Oakes death
* Gold mine millionaire
* World War II - WWII
* Military aircraft insignia

The top of page 8 has a two column illustration with heading: "New Insignia For American Planes" (see images)
The front page has a two column heading: "Sir Harry Oakes, Millionaire, Dead; Wounds on Body... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, August 6, 1942 

* Crystal Springs, Mississippi 
* Train-bus collision disaster 

The back page has one column headings that include: "12 DEAD, MANY HURT IN TRAIN-BUS CRASH" "Three From Up-State Among Thise Killed at a Grade Crossing in Mississippi" "FREIGHT CONFUSED... Read full description  

THE BLISSVILLE SUN, Blissville, Maryland, (no date) 

* Very rare movie prop issue

We've all seen newspapers used as props in movies, typically with a headline relating to the plot of the movie. Obviously created exclusively for the production of the movie, they are quite rare and seldom come on the collector's market--particular... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 13, 1941

* Martin Buggsy Goldstein & Harry Strauss
* Murder, Inc. Hitmen - contract killings
*Execution - executed by electric chair

The top of page 15 has a one column heading: "2 IN  MURDER RING ARE PUT TO DEATH" with subheads. (see images)
Complete with 40 pages, rag edition, nice... Read full description  

THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 17, 1941 This 48 page newspaper has small and somewhat discrete one column headlines: "HELD ON LEPKE CHARGE", "Siegel Arrested in Los Angeles on New York Indictment"

This tells of the arrest of Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel for harboring gangster Louis (Lepke) Buchalter.

Other news, sports and advertisements of... Read full description  

Here is a huge and I'm assuming very rare World War II poster that measures 4 feet, 8 inches (56 in.) x 3 feet, 6 inches (42 in.) that shows a statue of a colonial minuteman holding a rifle with his hand on a plow titled: "FOR DEFENSE; BUY" in red lettering then: "UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS" in green... Read full description  

* Cole Bros. Circus w/ animal trainer Clyde Beatty
* Great displayable item, some in color
* Gloversville, Fulton County, New York

This is an 8-page promotional piece for the "COLE BROS. CIRCUS" coming to Gloversville, New York, July 18, 1940 (see note below). The entire piece is a generic advertisement... Read full description  

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, April 3, 1940

* Murder Inc. hitman Harry Maione
* District Attorney William O'Dwyer

The front page has a two column heading: "Maione of Murder, Inc., Offers To Talk; O'Dwyer Won't Listen" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with 44 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, small binding... Read full description