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Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 124: Ultrarunning Stranger Things – Part 12: George Noremac and Murder
Description: By Davy Crockett
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On a summer morning in 1883 in midtown Manhattan, New York City, a young boy ran down 34th Street, getting the attention of a policeman. He cried out, “A man has killed some folks.” Officer John Hughes ran with the boy to a new saloon that recently opened. There he saw a man, pale, and trembling. He found out that the man was George Noremac, one of the most famous ultrarunners/pedestrians in the country.
Noremac led the officer up two flights of stairs to the apartment where he lived. On the dinin...