In the summer of 1887, Thomas Tollefson was shot to death as he operated his mule-drawn streetcar in the Cedar Avenue-Lake Street neighborhood of Minneapolis. Police settled on two brothers as the murderers – members of a family that ran a notorious saloon nearby called The Hub of Hell.
My guest is Beverly J. Porter, author of “The Hub of Hell: A True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Neighborhood, Murder, and Trial”. She offers details of not only the murder itself, but the flimsy investigation, trial, and eventual execution of Tim and Pete Barrett.
