In “White Cap” attacks, informal bands of men in rural areas would cover their faces with white hoods or masks and launch nighttime raids sometimes lethal on anyone
It was the biggest robbery Pittsfield had ever seen, but that wasn’t what really interested folks about the diamond heist on North Street in the fall of 1920, recounts columnist
Mattie’s official death record lists the cause as “consumption,” but other gossip was rampant around northern Berkshires. Rumor spread that Butler had an affair with Charles R. Littlefield, a clerk
Town histories of Savoy tell of Nathaniel Lewis Jr., whose behavior was considered so dangerous the town ordered that he be kept in chains, from about 1818 to his death
The assailants stabbed Harold Plant twice in the neck in front of multiple witnesses, then fled down the now-lost King Street extension to Onota Street.