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1899713181899. Worcester OH 1899. McDade 334. Very uncommon. Worcester OH 1899. McDade 334. Very uncommon. Murder in Canton Ohio: McDade 334 Murder. Albaugh Thurlow K. 1868-1937. George Annie E. b.1859. Saxton George D. 1848-1898. Canton's Great Tragedy: The Murder of George D. Saxton Together with a History of the Arrest and Trial of Annie E. George Charged with the Murder. With Biographical Sketches of George D. Saxton and Annie E. George. With Illustrations. Wooster OH: Press of Clapper Printing Co. 1899. ii 308 pp. 14 leaves of plates. Illustrations. Octavo 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Softbound book in pictorial wrappers. Moderate soiling rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners small hole to front wrapper moderate browning to text faint dampstaining to fore-edges of a few leaves near rear of text. $750. Only edition. "Saxton who was shot on October 7 1898 was the brother of Mrs. William McKinley wife of the President. Mrs. George was acquitted" McDade. The title page ascribes this book to "Coe" which was the pen name of Albaugh K. Thurlow a notable Ohio theater owner and manager. OCLC locates 15 copies 6 outside of Ohio 2 in law libraries Harvard University of Minnesota. McDade The Annals of Murder 334. 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
1832713351832. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Douglas and Kent 1832. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Douglas and Kent 1832. A Murder Related to Labor Unrest in the Newcastle Mines Broadside. Murder. Great Britain. An Account of the Shocking Murder Committed on the Body of John Errington A Bound Pitman At Hetton Colliery In the County of Durham On Saturday April 19 1832 By Receiving Two Shots One of Them in the Chest And the Other in the Groin. To Which is Added the Names of Those Who are Apprehended And Sent to Durham Gaol On Suspicion of Being Implicated in the Murder. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Douglas and Kent Printers 1832. 13-3/4" x 6-1/4" broadside mounted on 13-1/4" x 8" sheet bottom inch of broadside folded lower corners cropped. Single-column text below headline sections separated by rules. Negligible light toning. A well-preserved copy. $1500. An account "taken from the Newcastle Papers" of 28th April during the miner's strike of 1832 an early example of Indsutrial-Era unrest that resonated throughout Great Britain. At that time a number of strikers evicted from their homes gathered in the town where they lit bonfires discharged firearms and antagonized their opponents. Errington a strikebreaker was found dead in the street with two wounds from a marble-firing musket. Several strikers were charged with his murder and taken to Durham Gaol which was far enough away from Newcastle to discourage any rescue attempts. In the end the evidence was insufficient and they were released. No copies located on OCLC Library Hub or at the British Library. unknown books
1824BB056Murder Trial<br /><br />Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare . the coroner's inquest the trials of the prisoners and the execution. By George Henry Jones.<br /><br />London 1824.<br /><br />With 3 landscapes 2 folding plates finely lithographed by C J Hullmandel.<br /><br />8vo iv344pp; half-leather marbled boards spine label "Thurtell's Trial" lightly scuffed very solid and clean throughout.<br /><br />First edition.<br /><br />William Weare was a solicitor of Lyon's Inn and a gambler. His killer was John Thurtell 1794–1824 a sports promoter amateur boxer a former Royal Marine officer and a son of the Mayor of Norwich. Thurtell owed Weare a gambling debt of £300 an immense sum at the time equivalent to £24500 in 20151. Thurtell believed Weare had cheated him of the money. Whatever the truth when Weare demanded payment Thurtell murdered him rather than pay up. He invited Weare to join him and his friends – Joseph Hunt a tavern landlord and William Probert a former convict and alcohol merchant – for a weekend of gambling at Probert's cottage at the site of Oaks Close off Gills Hill Lane subsequently popularly known as Murder Lane23 Radlett. On 24 October 1823 they journeyed from London in Thurtell's horse-drawn gig but Weare was killed in a dark lane just short of their destination. The gruesome and callous events created such public sensation that it attracted numerous ballads and theatre shows at the time along with comment by the essayist Babington Macaulay and the crime used variously in the work of Sir Walter Scott William Hazllitt and Robert Louis Stevenson. After the trial one of the accused was hanged and another Joseph Hunt was transported to Botany Bay Australia.<br /><br />Charles Joseph Hullmandel 1789–1850 studied art and printmaking and is considered amongst the most important figures in the development of British lithography. He developed a method for reproducing gradations in tones and for creating the effect of soft color washes which enabled the reproduction of Romantic landscape paintings of the type made popular by J. M. W. Turner. Hullmandel's essay <i>The Art of Drawing on Stone</i> 1824 was an important handbook of lithography issued the same year as this account of the trial.<br /> 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
1830714231830. One of the Men Who Murdered Captain White: McDade 564 Murder. Citizen of Danvers. Crowninshield Richard 1804-1830. Biographical Sketch of the Celebrated Salem Murderer Who for Ten Years Past has Been the Terror of Essex County Mass. Including a Full and Authentic Account of His Daring Exploits; Together with Many New and Interesting Particulars of the Late Murder. Boston: Printed for the Author 1830. 24 pp. Woodcut frontispiece and title-page vignette. Octavo 9-1/4" x 6". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet untrimmed edges. Negligible light soiling to exterior light toning to text faint dampstaining to upper half of text block faint dampspotting to several leaves. A scarce title. $750. First edition. The murder of Joseph White a wealthy retired sea captain a conspiracy by a relative Joseph Knapp who hired his brother Frank Knapp and the brothers Richard and George Crowninshield was one of the most famous trials of the 1830s. Joseph Knapp received immunity for turning in the Crowninshields. George Crowninshield had a good alibi that prevented his conviction. Richard Crowninshield escaped justice by hanging himself. After a second trial John Francis Knapp was convicted and sentenced to death. Biographical Sketch is a record of Richard Crowninshield's misspent youth. A second edition with a slightly different title was published in 1845. Both are scarce. OCLC locates 13 copies of the first edition 3 in law libraries Social Law University of Missouri Yale. McDade The Annals of Murder 564. unknown books
