Melissa Davenport BerryAug 13, 20201 min readJohn T. Crook Testimony: Scams to Get the Hopkins Fortune: Seances, Table Tipping, and Slate WritingJohn T. Crook Jr., who provided key testimony in Timothy Hopkins’s suit to overturn Mary Hopkins Searles’s will. (Credit: from the...
Melissa Davenport BerryAug 8, 20201 min readA Scam to Claim Railroad Magnate Mark Hopkins's FortuneMark Hopkins, American railroad magnate, co-founder of the Central Pacific Railroad. (Image credit: I.W. Taber, Wikimedia Commons)...