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HOLMES SHERLOCK DAVID HEMMINGS PETER JONFIELD "MURDER BY DECREE"ABAA

Murder; Bickford James CompilerABAA

The Authentic Life of Mrs Mary Ann Bickford Who Was Murdered in.

1846712801846. Boston: Published by the Compiler 1846. 2nd ed. Boston: Published by the Compiler 1846. 2nd ed. The First Use of Sleepwalking as a Defense in a Murder Trial Murder. Bickford James Compiler. The Authentic Life of Mrs. Mary Ann Bickford Who Was Murdered in the City of Boston On the 27th of October 1845. Comprising a Large Number of the Original Letters and Correspondence Never Before Published. Boston: Published by the Compiler 1846. 48 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet original pictorial wrappers retained and securely affixed to text block. Light soiling and a few smudges and stains to wrappers "20" in small hand to head of front wrapper small library bookplate to its verso. Light toning to text light foxing to a few leaves. $1500. Second edition published the same year as the first. In 1845 Albert Jackson Tirrell 1824-1880 murdered Mary Ann Bickford 1824-1845 with whom he had a relationship in the brothel where she lived. The case was scandalous and widely publicized especially after Tirrell's lawyer Rufus Choate 1799-1859 successfully argued that Tirrell was innocent because he had been sleepwalking during the killing. This was the first time a defense based on sleepwalking was used in a murder trial. The letters collected by her brother in the Authentic Life document Mary Ann's relationship with her husband James Bickford and her relationship with Tirrell who is shown to have been abusive and manipulative. The OCLC listing for the second edition held by the New York Historical Society Library notes that "the color of the cover appears to be the only difference between the two editions." OCLC locates 16 copies of both editions 3 in law libraries which have the first edition Harvard Library of Congress Yale. McDade The Annals of Murder 986 edition not stated. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 13108. unknown books

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Robinson Boardman; Becker Rosenthal Murder TrialABAA

Mr Justice Precedent. 21" x 15-1/2" gouache image on 26" x 19-1/2

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

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General McCook Murder Trial Royce MS. M. S.ABAA

MANUSCRIPT PETITION IN REGARD TO CAPT. F.B. GURLEY - 4TH ALA. CAV

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. 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. 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'. 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. "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." 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

David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 692,20 €

Murder; Walters Ann Smith; Dudley Enos G; RunkleABAA

Life and Confession of Ann Walters The Female Murderess!.

1850714841850. Boston: Printed for the Proprietor 1850. Boston: Printed for the Proprietor 1850. "The Female Murderess!": Driven by the Culture of Slavery Two Full-Page Woodcut Illustrations Murder. Walters Ann Smith 1812-1844. Dudley Enos G. d.1849. Runkle Mary. Life and Confession of Ann Walters The Female Murderess! Also the Execution of Enos G. Dudley At Haverhill N.H. May 23d 1849. To Which is Added the Confession of Mary Runkle Who Was Executed for Murder. Boston: Printed for the Proprietor 1850. 32 pp. Two full-page woodcut illustrations. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in green printed wrappers large woodcut image of Walters to front untrimmed edges. Light soiling to exterior moderate edgewear. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in a few places. $950. Although OCLC records an "Ann Walters 1812-1844" McDade believes her story is a work of fiction that incorporates details of a dozen different murders. He also doubts the veracity of the Runkle case. Walters ran a tavern on the Delaware-Maryland border where she liked to murder traveling slave traders and steal their slaves money and other valuables. Her murder of a slave-trader is depicted in one of the woodcuts. Her depravity is blamed in part on the morally corrosive effects of slavery: "Although born in a free country where slavery is abhorred Canada she soon imbibed a taste for the traffic in slaves as our readers may easily perceive that her location was in a slave state where morality is not very exalted as such a course could not have been carried on in a free state so long without meeting the eye of detection." Walters began her career by killing her child and husband she then became the leader of a criminal gang. OCLC locates 4 copies in law libraries. Harvard Social Law University of Missouri Yale. McDade The Annals of Murder 1036. unknown books

The Lawbook Exchange Ltd · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €

Murder; Pierlot JacquesABAA

La Vie de Jacques Pierlot Pretre & Marguillier de la Paroisse de.

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

The Lawbook Exchange Ltd · États-Unis1 850,00 $US≈ 1 565,29 €

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