Gerald Schooley - from our story 'Small Town Noir – Twenty-One ’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle, Pennsylvania'

Gerald Schooley was 19 on the fourth of July, 1940, when, as a protest against Pennsylvania’s ban on fireworks, he spent an hour trying to set fire to cars in his neighbourhood. Four cars were destroyed. He was given a two-year suspended sentence.

View The Article