by Geoff Cobb 
Sometimes truth proves to be stranger than fiction. Not even the most ghoulish fiction writer could have created anything more macabre than the murder of William Simmons on January 26, 1876. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle observed that the Simmons killing was “As gruesome as anything ever imagined by Edgar Allen Poe.”
Two young boys were playing one Winter afternoon near a woodpile at the foot of Milton Street in the John Englis shipyard when they…
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Interesting story, but it is customary to give a persons’ full name when first referring to him or her. “Fuchs” was Andreas Fuchs.