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The Baby Murder Gang of Watervliet
When mailman Lloyd Bishop saw the chalked written words “Untie Henry Gerling” scribbled on Martin Webb’s Bainbridge mailbox in April of 1921, he thought it was an April Fools joke. So did Martin. Unfortunately, it was not. Days later, Henry Gerling’s lifeless body was found, still bound by his hands and feet near his bed,…
The Short and Miserable Marriage of Julia Allen & Flavius Brobst
A tale of a local landmark, poison, and hypnotism! On July 19, 1898 the Reverand Flavius Brobst and Julia Ellis Brobst were newlyweds, having just been married four months earlier. To celebrate, the Reverend gave his wife a choice. He set a revolver on her lap and told her either she could kill herself with the gun or poison herself with laudanum. She…
A Year in Review – 1925
As we flip the calendar from ‘25 to ‘26 let’s have a look back at the year in review. But not 2025. Let’s take a look at significant events that happened in Berrien County in 1925, as repeated in our local papers. For simplicity’s sake let’s keep things in chronological order. January 8 – On the same day Florence McKinney was sent away to prison, the…
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