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1872712841872. Jealousy Fraud Accusations and Murder: McDade 919 Murder. Stokes Edward S. 1841-1901. Fisk James Jr. 1835-1872. Life Adventures Strange Career And Assassination of Col. James Fisk Jr. The Fisk-Stokes Tragedy. All about Miss Mansfield. Those Rich Rare And Racy Letters and Many Oddities Now for the First Time Made Public. Philadelphia: Published by Barclay & Co. 1872. ii 19-111 1 pp. 12 full-page engraved woodcuts. Complete. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in pictorial wrappers. Binding slightly cocked light soiling rubbing to corners with light wear spine ends abraded wrappers just beginning to detach at ends. Moderate toning light foxing to a few leaves. $1500. Only edition. "Jim Fisk.was a financial wonder in New York in 1872. Edward Stokes had been associated with him in the oil business but they had become engaged in a bitter legal battle which originated when Stokes stole Fisk's mistress Josie Mansfield. In retaliation Fisk had charged Stokes with embezzling oil company funds; Stokes replied with a charge of false imprisonment. Then Mansfield threatened to publish letters from Fisk revealing some of his transactions. On January 5 an injunction was issued restraining the publication of the letters; on the next day Josie Mansfield was exposed to a humiliating cross-examination in police court on her relations with Fisk. Stokes in a rage followed Fisk to the Broadway Central Hotel where he shot him on the stairs. After two trials the state could only convict Stokes of third-degree manslaughter" McDade annotation to 917. OCLC locates 11 copies 2 in law libraries Library of Congress Yale. McDade The Annals of Murder 919. unknown books
1786696801786. Liege: Lemarie 1786. 4 engraved plates. 1st ed. Liege: Lemarie 1786. 4 engraved plates. 1st ed. Illustrated Account of a Belgian Priest With a Gambling Addiction Who Committed Several Murders Murder. Pierlot Jacques 1750-1786. La Vie de Jacques Pierlot Pretre & Marguillier de la Paroisse de Vervier Ville de la Principaute de Liege; Avec tous les Details de son Crime De sa Degradation & De son Supplice. Liege: Chez Lemarie 1786. 52 i.e. 50 pp. Etched portrait frontispiece. Four etched plates. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4". Nineteenth-century quarter sheep over marbled boards gilt fillets and title to spine marbled endpapers. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners recent owner bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text faint dampstaining to head of frontispiece and title page clean tear to lower inner corner of title repaired on verso bottom line of caption cropped on second plate final two leaves cropped and re-hinged. Laid in is a copy of the 17 March 1786 Avertissemens de Liege a handbill of local publisher advertisements including one for this publication. $1850. Only edition. A sensationalistic chapbook about a Belgian priest with a gambling addiction who murdered a creditor and members of the latter's household. He was sentenced by an ecclesiastical tribunal to degradation permanent removal from clerical office which was carried out in a public ceremony then sentenced by a municipal tribunal to be tortured and strangled. The plates depict his degradation and punishment. Chapbooks such as this one were an expression of the anti-clericalism that was a vital part of Enlightenment Francophone culture in the years preceding the French Revolution. OCLC locates 12 copies 1 in North America Library of Congress. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
186436882np 1864. 4to. Written in ink and signed at the end by Royce on the verso of a single leaf. Several small holes text unaffected a few closed tears two archival tape repairs. Good. <br/><br/> This unusual insightful document illuminates the laws of war applicable during the bitter American Conflict. Royce's Petition seeking justice for Gurley is directed to the Confederate Commission of Exchange. Its author Confederate Captain Moses Strong Royce was captured in Tennessee and imprisoned at Nashville. His cell-mate Captain Frank R. Gurley had allegedly murdered Union General Robert McCook of Ohio near Huntsville Alabama in August 1862. In October 1863 Gurley was captured and charged with the murder. Gurley Union officials claimed was a guerrilla who shot McCook while the General was lying in an ambulance. Southerners claimed that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a regular soldier in the Confederacy's 4th Alabama Cavalry; and that he killed McCook according to the laws of war. <br/> The pages of Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper fanned the flames claiming that guerrillas or lawless Confederate cavalrymen caused the general's death; feelings ran high. "US General Grant wrote CS General Hardee in December of 1863 and said that although Gurley was a member of the Confederate army that did not preclude him from being tried for having committed a foul murder" online Huntsville-Madison County Public Library essay 'Frank B. Gurley's 1866 Diary'.<br/> Royce advises that he escaped from prison "on the 1st of March." War Department Records claim Royce was a still a prisoner at Nashville on April 6 1864. That Record doubtless relied on outdated information. Having escaped in March 1864. Royce pleads Captain Gurley's case. "He was confined in a cell for sixty-eight days and allowed only about one hour a day for exercise and was put upon trial for the killing of Genl. McCook. He was obliged to employ counsel to defend himself at an expense of 2500 dollars in greenbacks. The evidence produced completely exonerated him of anything like MURDER and the argument of his counsel was a complete vindication of his RIGHT as a soldier and an officer to do all that he did in bringing Genl. McCook to his death. When the trial was nearly ended four communications by flag of truce were sent to the court and were there read - one from Lt. Col. Hambrick one from Genl. Forrest one from Genl. Hardee and one from Genl. Johnston" assuring that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a duly enrolled member of the Confederate military forces. Nevertheless Gurley was found guilty and sentenced to death. original italics are printed here in capital letters.<br/> "The undersigned believes that if an effort were to be made by the Confederate Commission of Exchange to have Capt. Gurley exchanged the Federal authorities would immediately send him forward for that purpose and as a friend of Capt. Gurley the undersigned respectfully requests General Johnston to use his influence in procuring the exchange of Capt. Gurley. Respectfully submitted M. S. Royce." <br/> Even after War's end the dispute continued. Gurley having been released from prison in an administrative snafu was re-arrested charged but finally released and placed on parole in April 1866. unknown books
1836665381836. Concord NH 1836. Concord NH 1836. "Oh! Lust Accursed Lust! 'Twas This for Which I Did the Deed" Broadside. Murder. Private Individual at the Bar. Abr'm Prescott's Confession of the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran of Pembroke N.H.--June 23 1833. Concord NH.: S.n. 1836. 17" x 11-1/2" broadside. Two-columns of verse in twenty stanzas within woodcut ornamental border text headed by large woodcut vignette of a coffin. Light browning and a few minor stains faint horizontal and vertical fold line chipping to edges section lacking from bottom margin just touching bottom right corner of border a few tears along fold lines with no loss to text later repairs to verso. $2500. Abraham Prescott was found guilty of the murder of Sally Cochran in two separate trials held in Concord in September 1834 and September 1835. Despite a well-crafted insanity defense he was sentenced to be hanged on December 23 1835 in Hopkinton New Hampshire. The execution was postponed to January 6 1836. The verse account in this broadside presents the murder as a crime of passion: "Oh! lust accursed lust! 'twas this for which I did the deed; Forfeiting heaven and life and bliss Forfeiting all I need." See McDade The Annals of Murder 769. OCLC locates 7 copies American Antiquarian Society Brown Dartmouth Harvard Peabody Essex Museum University of Michigan Yale. unknown books
1849717871849. Unrecorded Account of an Attempted Murder in Oxfordshire Broadside. Murder. Great Britain. Attempted Murder of a Wife by her Husband Near Banbury Oxfordshire. Reading: Jones Printer 1849. 14-1/2" x 10" broadside triple-column text below headline and woodcut image of a man stabbing a woman flanked by six stanzas of verse. Light toning and edgewear vertical and horizontal folds the latter with early repair fold line to lower right-hand corner light foxing to margins negligible faint dampstain to left-hand margin touching a bit of text. $3850. James Layton under stress from financial distress began to entertain paranoid delusions that his wife conspiring against him. This led him to shoot and stab her while they were on a walk near Banbury. Responding to the sounds and commotion a group of men came to the scene and apprehended Layton. His wife later died of her injuries. The subsequent trial ended in a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity. This appears to be an unrecorded broadside. No copies located on OCLC or Library Hub. unknown books
1914659851914. New York 1912-1914. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" frame. New York 1912-1914. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" frame. "His Famous Wig Composed Entirely of Split Hairs and Adorned with the Ceremonial Crimson Tape" Robinson Boardman 1876-1952. Becker-Rosenthal Murder Trial. Mr. Justice Precedent. New York 1914. 21" x 15-1/2" gouache image on 26" x 19-1/2" sheet image signed twice and inscribed by Robinson caption in pencil below image most likely in another hand laid down on illustration board. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" wooden frame glazed. Light soiling a few minor stains and four crop-marks to margins outside of image which could be covered with a matte image fine. Several minor scuffs and nicks to frame. A unique item relating to a notable trial. $4500. This piece was created to illustrate "Leaden Footed Justice in New York State" an article that appeared in the Special Feature Section of the New York Tribune on Sunday March 1 1914. The caption reads: "Mr. Justice Precedent wearing his famous wig composed entirely of split hairs and adorned with the ceremonial crimson tape." The caption refers to the protracted nature of the Becker-Rosenthal Murder case which began on October 7 1912 restarted on May 2 1914 and finally concluded after a series of procedural events in 1915. The case involved a group of corrupt police offices led by Charles Becker who ran a protection racket on illegal casinos. Becker hired gangsters to kill a casino owner and rival gangster who was threatening to expose the racket. A breathtaking example of police corruption the investigation and trial was front-page news in New York for months. In the end Becker was sent to the electric chair at Sing Sing. This was the first time a police officer received the death penalty. The case lived on for several years in the popular imagination; it is mentioned for example in The Great Gatsby 1925. Robinson the creator of this illustration was a distinguished artist illustrator and cartoonist. A native of Nova Scotia he studied art in Boston and completed his training in Paris at the Academie Colarossi and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts both in Paris. "Mr. Justice Precedent" shows his affinity acquired in Paris for the work of Daumier Forain and Steinlen. Robinson produced work for several newspapers and periodicals. He created "Mr. Justice Precedent" when he was an editorial cartoonist for the Tribune a posit. unknown books
