I apologize for not sending this out yesterday. \u00a0I suffered an unexpected attack of crippling ennui. \u00a0You know how life can be…<\/p>\n
In slang, a\u00a0Mickey Finn\u00a0(or simply\u00a0Mickey) is a\u00a0drink\u00a0laced with a\u00a0drug\u00a0(especially\u00a0chloral hydrate) given to someone without their knowledge in order to incapacitate them.\u00a0The\u00a0Mickey Finn\u00a0is most likely named for the manager and\u00a0bartender\u00a0of a\u00a0Chicago\u00a0establishment, the Lone Star\u00a0Saloon\u00a0and Palm Garden Restaurant, which operated from 1896 to 1903 in the city’s South\u00a0Loop\u00a0neighborhood on South\u00a0State Street.\u00a0In December 1903, several Chicago newspapers document that a Michael “Mickey” Finn managed the Lone Star Saloon and was accused of using knockout drops to incapacitate and rob some of his customers.\u00a0\u00a0Moreover, the first known written example (according to the\u00a0Oxford English Dictionary) of the use of the term Mickey Finn is in 1915, twelve years after his trial, lending credence to this theory of the origination of the phrase.<\/p>\n
The first popular account of Mickey Finn was given by\u00a0Herbert Asbury\u00a0in his 1940 book\u00a0Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld. His cited sources are Chicago newspapers and the 1903 court testimony of Lone Star prostitute “Gold Tooth” Mary Thornton. Before his days as a saloon proprietor, Mickey Finn was known as a\u00a0pickpocket\u00a0and thief who often preyed on drunken bar patrons. The act of serving a\u00a0Mickey Finn Special\u00a0was a coordinated robbery orchestrated by Finn. First, Finn or one of his employees, which included “house girls”, would slip a drug (chloral hydrate) in the unsuspecting patron’s drink.\u00a0The incapacitated patron would be escorted or carried into a back room by one of Finn’s associates who would then rob the victim and dump him in an alley. Upon awaking the next morning in a nearby alley, the victim would remember little or nothing of what had happened. Finn’s saloon was ordered closed on December 16, 1903.<\/p>\n
Culled from: Wikipedia<\/a> And this is why I love Chicago.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Are you the type who dreams of finding a hidden lair filled not just with jewels and gold, but jewels and gold encrusting skeletal remains? \u00a0Of course you are! \u00a0But until you make that find of a lifetime, perhaps this book might suffice?<\/p>\n
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