A 1908 gun battle in Jamaica Plain is revived in this interesting collection of contemporary newspaper accounts including the description of a "dramatic shootout at bucolic Forest Hills Cemetery."
The first American murderer was a passenger on the Mayflower. John Billington was hanged within 10 years of the Mayflower's arrival for shooting John Newcomen with a blunderbuss. First gun crime too. (Image of Louisiana blunderbuss)