Summary: YESTERDAY’S NEWS --Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism...<br>Berthe Claiche’s Revenge<br>Episode 297 relates the sad story of Berthe Claiche, whom we met briefly in last week’s episode when she gave a necklace to her cellmate, Josephine Terranova. I normally like to mix things up a bit, but these two tales have a lot in common, interesting back stories about immigrants struggling to adapt to American ways, courtroom theatrics, and sympathetic abused female defendants. Not that murder is ever a good idea, but if I were in their shoes... What do you think?<br>Culled from the historic pages of the New York Evening World, the New York Sun, and other newspapers of the era.<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderloin,_Manhattan" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderloin,_Manhattan</a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisette_(person)" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisette_(person)</a><br>$10 in 1906=$275 in 2018<br>***<br>A creation Of Pulpular Media<br>Can’t wait for the next episode to drop? Download the new podcast app Himalaya and get all new episodes a day early, and drop a buck in the tip jar for True Crime Historian.<br>Support your favorite podcaster at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/truecrimehistorian" rel="noopener">www.patreon.com/truecrimehistorian</a>. Just a dollar a month reserves your bunk at the safe house and access to exclusive content and whatever personal services you require.<br>***<br>Opening theme by Nico Vitesse.<br>Some music and sound effects licensed from podcastmusic.com.<br>Closing theme by Dave Sams and Rachel Schott, engineered by David Hisch at Third Street Music.<br>Media management by Sean R. Miller-Jones<br>Richard O Jones, Executive Producer
