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Why the Delay? 16 Feb 2013 | 01:49 am
Normal 0 The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case is full of baffling aspects, not the least of which was the timing of the payment of the ransom money. Could the phase of the moon provide some insight into w...
Dining With Our Ancestors: A Tale of Gastronomic Genealogy 15 Feb 2012 | 02:39 pm
An interesting aspect of genealogy is learning the stories of the foods that our ancestors ate. The "old family recipes" that are still cooked or baked today help us to connect with our past. Sometime...
Ayo Gurkhali! 8 Sep 2011 | 06:59 am
In the early years of my bagpiping career, one of my Pipe Majors complained that I was playing so fast that I sounded like a Gurkha. At the time, I had no idea what he meant. He explained that Gurkhas...
A Reprehensible Affair 17 May 2011 | 06:10 am
As the New Jersey State Police enters its 90th year, it has almost become commonplace to hear of a State Trooper suing the organization or the Superintendent for any number of reasons. This trend woul...
New Jersey State Secret Service 30 Apr 2010 | 07:28 am
A frequent question asked of the staff at the New Jersey State Police Museum is about an organization called the New Jersey State Secret Service. The questions usually revolve around their badges - ar...
Enter: Jafsie 2 Mar 2010 | 05:31 am
Doctor John F. Condon - Jafsie - is one of the greatest enigmas of the Lindbergh Kidnapping Case. The first question asked about him is how did this 71-year-old retired schoolteacher and principal com...
Snake Bite! 1 Dec 2009 | 06:01 pm
A photograph on page 50 of the New Jersey State Police 75th Anniversary Year History pictorial book shows Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf shaking hands with Governor A. Harry Moore. The capti on reads, ...
Biker Chick? 1 Oct 2009 | 04:01 pm
How does one begin to write an article about tattooing chickens? After all, it is a rather unusual topic and as such there is not a lot of information about the subject. When the New Jersey State Poli...
Mile High Cure? 18 Sep 2009 | 02:30 am
Trooper Herbert Eugene Roland Olstead #72 was in a motorcycle accident on March 28, 1922 while on duty that resulted in a “fractured skull, partial paralysis of the face, and total deafness in both ea...
The Crash of the Nellie Bly 18 Feb 2009 | 05:23 pm
It took 80 days for Phineas Fogg to travel around the world in Jules Verne’s 1873 novel, but in 1889 it took 21-year-old Elizabeth Cochran just 72. Elizabeth was better known by her pen name, Nellie ...
