Illustrated Police News (Boston)

Summary

The Illustrated Police News (ca. 1860–1904) or the Police News was a weekly periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts.[1][2][3][4] In a popular, sensationalist syle it reported news of crime and legal proceedings with stories about, for instance, Billy the Kid[5][6] and Bat Masterson.[7] Editors or owners included John Stetson[8][9][10] and A. H. Millett.[11]

References edit

  1. ^ Boston Almanac, 1865
  2. ^ Boston Directory, 1868
  3. ^ Mott, Frank Luther (1938). A history of American magazines. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-19-626431-6. OCLC 310244. OL 6382423M. 0196264316.
  4. ^ Rowell, George P. (1872). American Newspaper Directory. Vol. 4. New York: Geo. P. Rowell & Co. p. 288.
  5. ^ Illustrated Police News (Boston), January 8, 1881
  6. ^ "Only authenticated pic of Billy the Kid sells for $2.3 million". The History Blog. June 27, 2011.
  7. ^ Dykstra, R (2000). "Imaginary Dodge City, in: How the West Got Wild: American Media and Frontier Violence A Roundtable". Western Historical Quarterly. 31 (3).
  8. ^ Pollock, Channing (1943). Harvest of My Years: An Autobiography. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. pp. 112–113.
  9. ^ Slout, William L (2005). "Sm - Sy". Olympians of the Sawdust Circle. Circus Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2013-03-18.
  10. ^ "John Stetson's estate small; the property he left is very heavily incumbered". The New York Times. August 2, 1896.
  11. ^ American Stationer, June 4, 1896

External links edit

  • Picture of the cover of the Easter 1896 edition in the NYPL Digital Gallery
  • Ink from a Circus Press Agent: Part two, 1885 on the Circus History Society website
  • 19th Century Mormon Article Newspaper Index at the Harold E. Lee Library of Brigham Young University
  • The Illustrated Police News, Law Courts and Weekly Record on WorldCat
  • The Illustrated Police News, Law-Courts, and Weekly Record fulltext issues at the Digital Library of Villanova University.