Washington County Murder & Mayhem: Historic Crimes of by A. Parker Burroughs

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By A. Parker Burroughs

In 1907, a tender woman was once came across useless within the Lyric Theatre, forsaking an undesirable being pregnant and an abusive lover. On an in a different way quiet morning in 1891, a cartful of nitroglycerin exploded. The is still of the motive force needed to be accrued in a peck basket. The Cannonball convey lived as much as its identify in 1888, whilst an open change brought on it to shoot off the music, sending vehicles flying. neighborhood journalist A. Parker Burroughs resurrects those and different tales from southwestern Pennsylvania's shadowy prior. From foul play on the Burgettstown reasonable to the tragic homicide of North Franklin's Thelma younger, stick to the path with Burroughs as he uncovers the crimes and intrigues of Washington County.

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