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Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

Book by J.D. Crighton · 12 quotes · 19th Century America, Investigation, Philadelphia

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“Geyer and Gary looked at each other and wearily sat down. All the weeks of travel in the hottest months of the year investigating lead after lead, alternating between faith, hope, discouragement, and despair.”

Faith Hope Emotional Inspirational Life Despair

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“It was more than a show of support for the new president, it was a show of immense compassion, for two months before his inauguration, Franklin Pierce and his wife, Jane, suffered an unthinkable tragedy…”

Compassion Tragedy Supporting Others

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“The short, but powerful police officer left a saloon and went straight for the police station, set out to do exactly what he planned even if no one believed a drunk like him.”

Drunk Law Enforcement Police Officer Philadelphia 19th Century America Workplace Shooting

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“While Geyer was on the German steamship to Rio de Janeiro, his co-workers struggled to cope with intense emotions. The day after forty-five miners died in the Roslyn, Washington, explosion, Philadelphia suffered a tragedy of their own—one that would rock City Hall and its police force to its core.”

Tragedy Police Law Enforcement Emotional Pain Philadelphia City Hall 19th Century America

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“While United States sent troops to war, bitter racial tensions erupted into an all-out race riot in South Philadelphia. And unbeknownst to a petite, young, professional woman—she was the cause.”

Philadelphia Racial Tension 19th Century America Bitterness And Hatred Race Riot

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“. . . the two families were about to be impacted in a major way as Philadelphia and the rest of the world were slammed with a pandemic so catastrophic that it killed more people than World War I.”

World War I Pandemic Philadelphia Influenza 19th Century America Spanish Flu Spanish Influenza

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“He resolved for Detective Geyer to undertake a careful and methodical search for the blunder which a criminal always makes between the inceptions and consummation of his crime.”

Investigation Detective 19th Century America Criminal Investigation

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“Emotional and filled with unthinkable sorrow, Mrs. Pitezel had to see where Howard took his last breath—where Holmes ripped her son from her.”

History Emotional Murder Death Of A Loved One Emotional Pain Serial Killer 19th Century America

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“Thousands of soldiers, ink barely dry on discharge papers, begged in vain to start a new campaign of revenge.”

War Revenge Civil War Soldiers 19th Century America

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“It must have taken very careful management to have moved these three separate parties from Detroit to Toronto, without either of the three discovering either of the others, but this great expert in crime did it, and did it successfully,” Geyer later said.”

Criminals Investigation Law Enforcement Murderer Detective 19th Century America

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“Despite a protective Geyer threatening to “break the neck of the first reporter who attempted to interview the woman,” a determined reporter caught Mrs. Pitezel on her way out of the Rossin House dining room.”

Protect Investigation Detective Protectiveness 19th Century America

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“Rot! Absolute rot! Hatch was merely an alias of Holmes. He had as many as a city directory, but he used the name Hatch frequently. If Hatch did the killing, Holmes will hang for it, for Holmes and Hatch are one and the same person,' Linden said.”

Investigation Murderer Capital Punishment Aliases 19th Century America Alias

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