Illustrated Police News (Boston)

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

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

External links

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.

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[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. 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". New York Times. August 2, 1896.

[11] American Stationer, June 4, 1896