{"product_id":"crime-corruption-on-the-michael-delaware-9781467172363","title":"Crime \u0026 Corruption on the Michigan Railroad: Stories from the Victorian Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eMurder in Victorian Western Michigan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVictorian Southwest Michigan True Crime \u003c\/em\u003ecomes more thrilling stories from the Wolverine State's past. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the Michigan Central Railroad company became a juggernaut, the nineteenth-century rail line also devolved into a bastion for crime as morality was often set aside for profit. In 1850, a grand jury indicted fifty men in Jackson County for conspiracy to commit arson after a freight depot in Detroit was set ablaze. When two Grand Trunk locomotives collided in Battle Creek in 1893 killing twenty-seven people, a conductor and an engineer each accused the other, avoiding conviction. A Mineral Ridge train robbery of $70,000 in payroll money destined for miners on the Keweenaw Peninsula was exposed by a former railroad worker involved in the heist, allowing him to escape prosecution and sending four others to prison. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Michael Delaware unfolds dark stories of corruption and crime from Michigan's Victorian age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Delaware\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1467172367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781467172363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Michael Delaware","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874714759423,"sku":"9781467172363","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crime-corruption-on-the-michael-delaware-9781467172363","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}