This spring on the Gilda Gentleman podcast, host Carl Raymond, is taking you on some

marvelously strange adventures into the past, including the story of America's most notorious

body snatchings. The sexton discovered that the slab covering the vault had been removed,

the coffin was open, and Stewart's body was gone.

Before there was a reality show, the birth of the bachelor.

Bachelor culture in the late 19th century kind of split between bachelors as rakes,

kind of macho athletic.

And then you had your artistic bachelors, who were referred to as artistic often,

and sometimes in the

weird parlance of the time as blonde.

And a show with the fabulous title, Cats of the Gilded Age.

So when he heard that the very first organized cat show was coming to Madison Square Garden

in 1895, he decided he's going to pull a prank.

So he gets this raggedy street cat. He grooms him and he enters this cat in the cat show.

Well, Nicodemus was not a pet cat. He was a street cat. He was a Bowery cat.

And before the film comes out, Carl will also take you to a time when the devil always wore

Prada, the evolution of a Belapac clothing brand.

Morals, for spring. Groundbreaking. That's the Gilded Gentleman History Podcast hosted by me,

Carl Raymond. Listen today wherever you get your podcasts. But first, today in the Bowery

boys, we've got one of the most scintillating episodes of the Gilded Gentleman ever, the tale of

the great-grandson of founding father Alexander Hamilton, who gets mixed up with a beautiful

con artist with a dubious past, and the shocking

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