Police Records and Recollections, Or, Boston by Daylight and Gaslight for Two Hundred and Forty Years (Patterson Smith reprint series in criminology, law enforcement, and social problems. Publication)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... execution of the laws into their own hands, and pretty summary work they made of it too." "Well, sir," said I, " what about the Beehive?" (Shifting his cane from one hand to the other, and dropping a big quid of the weed into the empty hand and deliberately throwing his old soldier upon the pavement.) "Do you know," said he, " that the street where we now stand was once called Black Horse Lane?" It was called so, from the Black Horse Tavern, that once stood down there by the corner, where you see the figure with a big nose standing over the apothecary's door. The tavern had the figure of a black horse for a sign; it was long before my remembrance, but when I was a boy an old darkle who lived over by the water-mill used to tell me much about it. He called it Blackus Inn, but that was old Ebony's abbreviation. This Inn was once noted as a place of refuge for soldiers who deserted from Burgoyne's army as it was about leaving Winter Hill, near the close of the Revolution. There was another tavern, with a like sign, up in Back Street afterwards, and one up at old No. 17 Union Street, not many years since, but this was the original one. In early times, the North End was the "court end" of the town, and it was proverbial for its numerous places of entertainment. Ann Street was then Fore Street, and Hanover was Middle Street, and Salem Street from the mill bridge to the corner down here was Back Street, and from Prince Street up by Christ's Church and the old Governor Phipps estate to Charter Street was called Green Lane. "Since my remembrance, the millpond extended from North Margin to South Margin streets, and from the causeway to Haymarket Square. Canal boats passed through where Blackstone Street now lies, at high water coming out into the...