Murder & Mayhem in the Catskills Book

Acknowledgements     5
Introduction     7
Early Bloodshed     11
Joseph Brant, the Border Wars and the Revolution     12
Claudius Smith, Tory Outlaw     18
"Gross" Hardenburgh     21
The Unhappy Servant     25
Strange Murders     29
Love or Obsession?     29
The Blacksmith and the Carpenter     31
Hex Murder at the Stone Arch Bridge     33
Lethal Lizzie     36
Bodies in the Catskills     41
The Saga of Walter Sage     42
The Bridegroom     44
The Frenchman     45
The Cabdriver     46
The Lime Pit     47
Murder, Incorporated     49
Jack "Legs" Diamond     51
Lepke Buchalter     55
Jacob Shapiro     61
Waxey Gordon     63
Jacob "Jack" Drucker     65
Abe Reles     66
"Dukey" and "Pretty"     68
Albert "Allie" Tannenbaum     71
Dutch Schultz and His Hidden Treasure     72
The Roundup     79
Joe Bonanno     81
Joseph Tomasello     83
Mysterious Remains     87
The Oldest Courthouse Inhabitant     87
Only One Bone     88
Ashes Are Ashes     89
Murder and Mayhem in the Modern Era     91
The "Reverend"     91
A Very Bad Habit     93
Guest in the Catskills     95
The Intruder     98
She Trusted Him     100
The Iron Fist     103
A Family Affair     106
"Yankee Jim"     107
Done in by a Parachute Cord     109
References     115