17 min listen
Spring Gun in the Grape Vines
Spring Gun in the Grape Vines
ratings:
Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Nov 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week we’ll explore the strange case of a 1907 shooting in Jamaica Plain. There was a gun, a gunshot, and a gunshot victim… a child, in fact. But there was no shooter, or at least no human shooter. If this was today, we might be talking about a terrifying robot machine gun, but 1907 was a little early for that. Instead, we’re talking about a deadly trap laid by a homeowner to protect his grape arbor. For setting this deadly trap, the homeowner would face criminal trial for assault, but pay only a trivial fine. As bizarre as the case sounds, it was part of a trend that was sweeping the nation at the time, with many spring gun cases arising in the Boston area, until the matter was finally settled in a state supreme court case that every first year law student still studies today.
Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/235
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory
Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/235
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory
Released:
Nov 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 2: How Cotton Mather saved Boston (Nov 6, 2016): When smallpox threatened Boston in 1721, Cotton Mather was a leading advocate of inoculation. How did this influential Puritan, best known for his role in the Salem witch trials, become an advocate for scientific medicine? Listen to this week’s epi ... by HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History