Margaret Nolan’s Shocking Kidnapping in 1869 and the New York House of Refuge
On February 27 in 1869, The Pilot, an Irish-American newspaper, printed a disturbing letter from a Catholic priest that led me to do a bit of true crime investigation. The priest was writing on behalf of a girl named Margaret Nolan, 19. Ten or eleven years prior, she had been kidnapped while playing in the […]