Wicked Akron
Subtitle: tales of rumrunners, mobsters, and other Rubber City rogues
By: Kymberli Hagelberg
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781596299153
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Early Akron; title: Killer fog : plague on the Ohio Canal; title: The headless butcher; title: The fugitive barber; title: Slaughter on Water Street; title: The love letter murderer; title: Body snatchers of Summit; title: Bedlam at the poorhouse; title: pt. 2. When Akron roared; title: The night Akron burned; title: Akron's first godfather; title: The bad guys wore white; title: The battle of Lake Anna; title: The pretty boy who got away; title: pt. 3. Villains and rogues, acts of God, folly of men; title: Whiskey Dick; title: Bill Griffiths; title: Doodlebug; title: Disorder in the court; title: Football flimflam.