Tag: Crime
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The first South Asian to die at San Quentin Prison?
Babu Bheem Roy’s terrible crime in 1910s California — and the survivor who took him on Babu Bheem Roy was born in Gorakhpur, India in 1869, passed through England, and immigrated to the United States at age 20, in 1889. Over the next quarter century, he would marry an Irish woman, become a single father, work as a…
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Love, murder, and the great Hindoo manhunt of 1913
The story of Said Khan, the “thuggee” murderer I’ve been grappling with the story of Said Ali Khan, trying to make meaning of it. In 1913, in the San Francisco Bay Area, Said Ali Khan strangled and murdered Rosa Domingo, an 18 year old Portuguese woman he was involved with. He weighted down her body…