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194681180Fort Worth: Leo Potishman Foundation 1946. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover titled in gilt; dustjacket; 136pp; included bibliography. Tight square copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped priced $1.50 on front flap lightly rubbed and worn Very Good or better. Ownership signature of Wiley B. Sanders to front endpaper see note below. <br /> <br /> Porterfield a pioneering sociologist at Texas Christian University seeks to demonstrate that juvenile criminal behavior is nearly always related to parental neglect or abuse and asserts that it is the responsibility of the community to provide a surrogate: ".the community is responsible for all youth whose parents fail them and for the training and improvement of oppoortunities of parents so that they can escape failure." from jacket copy. Includes three detailed case studies and a wealth of statistical data. This copy with the ownership signature of Porterfield's contemporary and colleague University of North Carolina sociologist Wiley Britton Sanders 1898-1973. Leo Potishman Foundation unknown
194683975Fort Worth: Leo Potishman Foundation 1946. First Edition. Presentation lengthily inscribed: "To Edward Hopper / Assistant Superintendent of a work that is more than mere prevention of disaster in young peoples' lives - it is a program of building creative personalities - with the best wishes always" signed undated but apparently contemporary with publication. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover titled in gilt; dustjacket; 136pp; included bibliography. Tight square copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped priced $1.50 on front flap slightly rubbed soiled and worn with small losses at margins; Good or better.<br /> <br /> Porterfield a pioneering sociologist at Texas Christian University seeks to demonstrate that juvenile criminal behavior is nearly always related to parental neglect or abuse and asserts that it is the responsibility of the community to provide a surrogate: ".the community is responsible for all youth whose parents fail them and for the training and improvement of oppoortunities of parents so that they can escape failure." from jacket copy. Includes three detailed case studies and a wealth of statistical data. This copy inscribed to an "Edward Hopper" presumably not the noted painter of this period at least we can find no evidence of Hopper's involvement in a program to rehabilitate troubled youth. Leo Potishman Foundation unknown
193058580Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1930. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; xiv 205pp; 2 folding maps. Fine copy of the book; in the original dustwrapper which has been heavily repaired on front and rear panels covering a ca. 1" x 2" loss and repairing a ca. 4" tear into the bottom margin; Good only. <br /> <br /> An appealing copy of this seminal study of juvenile delinquency in Chicago. Mostly written in the "first person" based on Shaw's interviews with "Stanley" his subject beginning with his destitute childhood and proceeding through homelessness pick-pocketing car-theft various correctional facilities etc. Includes a folding map "Home Addresses of 9245 Alleged Juvenile Delinquents Dealt With by the Juvenile Police Probation Officers During the Year 1926 - Ten to Seventeen Years of Age." An uncommon book in any condition; despite flaws to the jacket this remains a quite presentable copy. University of Chicago Press unknown
192935124New York: D. Appleton & Co 1929. Second American printing first published in London 1925; the first American printing also appeared that year. Octavo; blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xviii 1-619 2pp; 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates halftones; text illus. A tight Near Fine copy in the scarce dustwrapper lightly soiled overall with a few nicks to extremities Very Good to Near Fine. Very nice copy of this classic of juvenile criminal psychology. Burt achieved great eminence during his lifetime in 1946 becoming the first British psychologist to be knighted as a reward for his research. Burt's methodologies came into question after his death however and it is now widely believed he falsified much of his data particularly that relating to the inheritance of IQ. Nonetheless the current work remains compelling for both its wealth of detailed personal case studies of British delinquents and the numerous photographic portraits which though clearly staged portray genuine subjects and are classics in their genre. D. Appleton & Co unknown
191085165New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1910. First edition. Octavo. Blue-green pictorial cloth stamped in black and silver on cover and spine; 379pp. 8 inserted leaves of plates halftones by Glenn O. Coleman. A bright Near Fine copy with just a trace of rubbing to spine ends board edges; virtually free of soiling with the pictorial design on front cover still bright and unfaded.<br /> <br /> Hapgood's uncommon chronicle of immigrant and underworld life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan presented as a series of fictionalized vignettes and a sequel of sorts to his classic The Spirit of the Ghetto. Hapgood a sometime anarchist and full-time free-lover was in the first wave of Greenwich Village bohemians; his celebratory accounts of Manhattan's seedier sections have long stood as scarce classics of New York writing. An uncommonly nice copy of a quite uncommon book. Funk & Wagnalls unknown
191086220New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1910. First edition. Octavo. Gray pictorial cloth stamped in black and silver inks on cover and spine; 379pp. 8 inserted leaves of plates halftones by Glenn O. Coleman. Trace of rubbing at spine ends and corners; scattered pencil marginalia with old erasure to front endpaper; still a tight square and attractive copy Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> Hapgood's uncommon chronicle of immigrant and underworld life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan a sequel of sorts to his classic The Spirit of the Ghetto. Hapgood a sometime anarchist and full-time free-lover was in the first wave of Greenwich Village bohemians; his celebratory accounts of Manhattan's seedier sections have long stood as scarce classics of New York writing. This a really brilliant copy; the book is very rarely seen thus. We have noted binding variants in gray cloth as here and green. Funk & Wagnalls unknown
195662480London: Robert Hale 1956. First Edition. Octavo 22cm. Black cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 192pp. Tight Very Good or better copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper price clipped on front flap; slightly rubbed with a tiny chip at base of spine; Very Good. Classic memoir of a London youth's life of addiction petty crime and incarceration. Includes some jazz content. Robert Hale unknown
1857List2022Washington 1857. Autograph letter measuring 8 x 5 inches bifolium with free franked stampless cover. Fine condition. Fine. An interesting letter written by James W. Denver written while he was serving as Commissioner of Indian Affairs describing crime on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1857. He writes:<br /> “We have great times on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. For a long time past merchandise has been lost along the line by being thrown out of the cars while under way some of the confederates being ready to pitch them up and sell them. To put a stop to this the Directors ordered the cars when loaded to be sealed up and not to be opened until they should arrive at the place of destination. The conductors took offense and said that this was a reflection on them quit the trains and would not let anybody else take their places. In order to prevent this they attacked the trains passing Ellicott’s Mills and succeeded in turning back all but one. Today it was rumored that the Plug Uglies had possession of the track between Baltimore and the Relay House but this is hardly so as a train has I am told arrived here this evening. This is a very extraordinary affair as it is in fact an effort to give greater license to stealing and from the way they have acted there is not much doubt but the conductors were engaged in the plundering.â€<br /> The Plug Uglies first operated in Baltimore beginning in 1854. Several iterations of the Nativist gang eventually formed all of which were referred to by the same name. They would be involved a month later in the Know Nothing Riot in Washington D.C. in June of 1857 the same month that Denver would gain his appointment as Secretary of Kansas Territory. <br /> <br /> <br /> Full text follows:<br /> <br /> My Dear Wife<br /> The cheerful tone of your letter of the 28th ult. pleases me very much. I hope and trust that will be ever thus. A light heart and cheerful disposition makes life a perennial springtime. There is nothing like it. Keep up your sprits ever thus and besides being the pride of my life you will be my light also—the polar star of my existence.<br /> <br /> O Lou! how lonely I feel here at times without you! Were we only together how much more pleasantly would the time pass away. Still I have no great reason to complain of fortune but ought rather to be thankful for the great boon she has vouchsafed to me in making you mine for life. To know this it is easy to imagine a good angel always hovering near me giving warning of besetting dangers and urging me on to greater usefulness and then to dream of the bright approving smiles of her I love so well. And though distant I doubt not but they are as sweet and as kind as though present and palpable to my vision. Well well what must be I suppose must be and we must grin and bear it; but I wish you were here and not the subject of mere dreams and imaginings.<br /> <br /> We have great times on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. For a long time past merchandise has been lost along the line by being thrown out of the cars while under way some of the confederates being ready to pitch them up and sell them. To put a stop to this the Directors ordered the cars when loaded to be sealed up and not to be opened until they should arrive at the place of destination. The conductors took offense and said that this was a reflection on them quit the trains and would not let anybody else take their places. In order to prevent this they attacked the trains passing Ellicott’s Mills and succeeded in turning back all but one. Today it was rumored that the Plug Uglies had possession of the track between Baltimore and the Relay House but this is hardly so as a train has I am told arrived here this evening. This is a very extraordinary affair as it is in fact an effort to give greater license to stealing and from the way they have acted there is not much doubt but the conductors were engaged in the plundering.<br /> <br /> Judge Stephen A. Douglass intends leaving <br /> here with his family tomorrow. Nat Cartmell was here on Friday. He said they were all well in Virginia except cousin John Lupton who was convalescing. Tell your father I will keep him posted and tell your mother to keep you at work—if she can. My love to all. Goodnight. God bless you my own dear Lou. Adieu. — Will. unknown
1838List2426Republic of Texas 1838. Stampless letter folded with red two-line handstamp of Steam Packet Columbia on January 16 1838 from Brazoria Tex. to New Orleans. Fine condition. Fine. An intriguing letter written by Edmund Andrews a judge in Brazoria Texas who had arrived in Stephen Austin’s colony eight years before he penned this in 1830. The letter is written to John K. West the New Orleans attorney who was an original member of the notorious “New Orleans Associates.†Andrews discusses a conversation he had on behalf of West with John Austin Wharton who would die later in 1838 relating that Andrews had a conversation with Wharton on West’s behalf. The conversation with Wharton revolved around a man with the last name Chase and Andrew Mills who had both left Texas presumably and traveled to Kingston Jamaica where Mills was hanged for an undisclosed crime. Andrews writes that Wharton related that that Mills told him he “would not have done it if he had not been drunk†presumably talking about the crime for which he was hanged. Overall a very intriguing letter relating to crime exile and misdeeds in the Republic of Texas which should be of interest to scholars of the Republic. <br /> <br /> Full text follows:<br /> <br /> Brazoria Jan'y 16 1838<br /> <br /> Mr. John K. West<br /> Sir <br /> <br /> Since I wrote to you in reply to yours under date 19th ulto. I have seen Col. John A. Wharton upon the subject contained in your favor. He says he does not recollect who the person was referred to in yours but recollects to have heard Haney speak of it and says he Haney told him that he actually saw Andrew Mills hung and says he described the rope he was hung with. Col. Wharton seems to think Haney's statement entitled to credit. <br /> <br /> These facts can be known if they are really facts by sending a commission to Kingston Jamaica for although both Chase and Mills had no doubt assumed names yet a person of so much notoriety as Capt. John Chase must have been known to some there.<br /> <br /> Haney said Mills begged him when he saw him in Kingston never to make known his fate and that he would not have done it if he had not been drunk. The foregoing is the substance of the conversation held with Col. J. A. Wharton. <br /> <br /> I am yours truly <br /> Edmund Andrews. unknown
195560170Elma WA: Fulco Publications Press of The Elma Chronicle 1955. 8vo. 8 229 1 pp. Illustrated title photographic illustrations. Red cloth gilt lettering on spine slight shelfwear minor rubbing w/ d.j. cover art logging scene chipping head & foot of spine closed tears at joints old scotch tape repairs to spine & some offset ghosting still a NF/Fair copy inscribed by the author on the ffep. from library of Pete Hurd w/ bookplate on ffep. First edition signed. This scarce Northwest title was written by the former secretary to Washington State Governor Louis F. Hart and founder with Frank Satterlee of the Olympia News in 1924 and finally a consulting criminologist. This work includes the crimes adventures mass murderers and manhunts for John Tornow Billy Gohl Harry Tracy Frank Romandorff Henry Plummer Boone Helm Doc Howard Chris Lowry Peter Miller and many others. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Fulco Publications, Press of The Elma Chronicle, hardcover
19112021Chicago: Pinkerton's National Detective Agency 1911. Very Good. 11" x 8-1/2". Circular printed recto only. White stock printed in black b&w illustration. Three holes punched to upper portion of leaf slightly affecting text; old folds. Wanted circular for Edward J. Tierney who according to a contemporary newspaper account "is the 'classiest' looking of all the criminals that the police have been asked to look out for" Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer Feb. 23 1911. Wearing a dress coat in the photo provided for the circular Tierney worked as a traffic clerk for the Western Electric Company in Dallas before disappearing in November 1910. The reader is warned that he "might be found in the Shipping or Traffic Department of some electrical concern or railway office and he may also endeavor to obtain a position as a chauffeur or at some Vaudeville House or Moving Picture Show as he is a competent chauffer and a good singer as well." Oddly the 28-year-old Tierney is never implicated in a crime here nor does an initial review of contemporary newspapers reveal that he was ever charged with one much less convicted. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency unknown
004469London: C. Roworth & Sons Printed broadside n.d. but between 1832 and 1840 approximately 220mm x 370mm in size. Laid down on to paper old tears now closed visible to head light surface soiling cropped by about 20mm another copy I had a few years ago was 245mm x 390mm in size small hole to vignette. The printer was Charles Roworth who traded as C. Roworth & Sons between 1832 and 1840 see BBTI. A notice to menials and servants that if through negligence or carelessness any houses were set on fire they would be subject to a fine of one hundred pounds and in the likely event of them not being able to pay such a fine they would be sent to gaol for eighteen months of hard labour. This notice was to be "affixed in some conspicuous place in view of your servants". First Edition. Unbound. Good. Folio. Broadside. C. Roworth & Sons Paperback
193088102New York: Cosmopolitan 1930. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 19cm. Orange-red cloth titled in black; dustjacket; 309pp. Very Near Fine copy with just a trace of light rubbing to bottom board corners. In the original dustwrapper unclipped priced $1.50 at base of front flap slightly sunned on spine panel with a few tiny nicks to extremities and a short split to upper portion of front flap-fold; still Near Fine most uncommon thus. <br /> <br /> A hard-boiled novel set in the world of New York gangsters focused not so much on a single criminal plot as on the day-to-day machinations of its central figure one Antonio Scarvak head of a small-time rum-running and extortion racket. The New York Times in its 1931 review noted with some pique that Coe's antihero seemed ".an incredibly dull-witted gunman.who moves rather absurdly through the web of murder graft and corruption that makes the background for the novel." Coe a former boxer and federal agent specialized in works that brought to life the criminal underworld with which he was long familiar and his work is unusual in that while it was clearly designed to appeal to the growing audience for lurid hard-boiled crime it kept one foot firmly planted in the realm of social fiction. There are only a few novelists of the period whose work is equally likely to be cited in Hubin's Bibliography of Crime Fiction this title cited on p.88 as in Archibald Hanna's bibliography of American social fiction A Mirror for the Nation no. 728. Uncommon in jacket this is a particularly fresh example. Cosmopolitan unknown
1905List2839Boston Massachusetts 1905. Single 8.5 x 8.5 inch sheet cut from a larger whole; likely missing a portion. Marks at upper left side some folding. Otherwise excellent to near fine. Wanted poster for Mary S. Dean dated December 16 1905. Three months prior a young woman’s torso had been found in a suitcase floating in Boston Harbor. A month later a suitcase containing her limbs was found and she was identified as Susanna Geary. In September Geary had gone to the medical practice on Tremont Street where Dean worked as a nurse and Dean had performed an abortion for her - at the time an illegal procedure in Massachusetts. Geary developed sepsis from the surgery; when she died Dean and three men one a doctor conspired to dismember Geary and dispose of her body in the ocean.1 The doctor was acquitted and the two men pleaded guilty but Mary S. Dean was never found.<br /> <br /> 1 “Says McLeod Made Plans: Crawford Testifies in Suit Case Trial†The Boston Globe November 28 1905. unknown
1913List2840Stockton California 1913. Single 6 x 9 inch sheet. Marked with blue crayon at upper left corner otherwise near fine. A wanted poster offering $20 for the return of a stolen Indian motorcycle. Indian motorcycles were an early American motorcycle built by the Hendee Manufacturing Company in Springfield Massachusetts. This particular one was a tandem model stolen from a race ground in San Jose in August of 1913. Motorcycling was then a very new sport with the first motorcycling club the Federation of American Motorcyclists having been formed in New York City not ten years prior. unknown
173327715Namur Belgium 1733. Ephemera. Very good condition. An unusual survival of an 18th century swindle and subsequent execution. The manuscript letter is written by Mme de Douglas to an unknown "Monsieur" from Namur Belgium dated early January 1733. Mme Douglas was the widow of one of two brothers who inherited their fathers' rich estate from the East Indies. Upon the brothers' death in order to prevent the estate being distributed to the daughter of her brother in law she paid a wet nurse and others to falsify testimony implying that the daughter was illegitimate. The daughter was imprisoned but later found to be not guilty and the courts in Holland Belgium indicted Mme Douglas. Ultimately "The verdict was that she be hanged and that her 80 year old father be brought onto the scaffoled in order to watch the execution; and her 300000 florin fortune is not sufficient to save her from her fate." Translation of an article in "Kurz-gefaßter historischer Nachrichten zum Behuf der neuern Europäischen Begebenheiten auf das Jahr 1735" vol. 45 November p. 893.<br /> <br /> Written in unaccomplished French bifold 7 1/4 x 6" 4pp. <br /> Translation from French:<br /> From Namur the 1st of Jan 1733<br /> As I learned a few days ago that you also took possession of all the property of your father-in-law by agreement with your brother-in-law I have the honor to write you these lines to know if your intention to lodge with me was false as you assured me of demonstrating the desire if it were up to you and I assured Monsieur Questand also agreeable that you appeared to me that we could easily arrange for your interests and mine. If you come to Namur it would require us to confer together. I am lodging at the moment with Mr Canon Paradis near St. Aubain I shall await a response to this letter my compliments if you please to Madame your wife and I wish you both all good wishes in this year that we are beginning according to your desires having the honor to be <br /> with a perfect esteem Sir your very humble and very obedient Countess<br /> of Douglas<br /> <br /> In 1717 Veselovsky one of Peter the Great's entourage on his second visit to the Low Countries lodged in Namur 'chez M. le chanoine Paradis.' See Charles Maroy 'Les voyages de Pierre le Grand' L'Expansion Belge 6/4 1913: 209 199-211. <br /> <br /> Further reference to this case is made in a European history published in Nurnberg in 1744 summarizing important events in European history from 1734 to 1744 Ref. below.<br /> <br /> 'How sharply dishonesty is treated in Holland is illustrated by an example in the person of Madame Douglas. There were two Douglas brothers both married who received a rich inheritance from the East Indies. One questioned the legitimacy of the inheritance the other accepted it. The two were so hostile towards each other that guardians had to be appointed. After awhile both brothers died one of whom was survived by a daughter. Because however the other widow wanted the entire fortune for herself and her children she corrupted a wet-nurse and other witnesses who finally testified that the child presumably of the dead brother was illegitimate. The mother of the child was put in jail and the sister-in-law received the entire inheritance. After further investigation the imprisoned woman was found not guilty and the lying of the widow and her false witnesses was exposed. She the widow was prepared to pay 300000 guilders for her life but Madame Douglas ended up having to pay far more. Her 80 year old father was forced to watch the execution of her daughter on the scaffold because he had given his daughter the offending attorney Streich. Nine of the false witnesses were beaten with a broom and seven were branded.' Translation of a passage on pp. 638-639 in Andreas Lazarus von Imhof Des Neu-eröffneten historischen Bilder-Saals Zehender Theil. Nürnberg 1744. unknown
186727753Ripley Mississippi 1867. Otherwise very good condition. If to be found in your County and them safely keep. to be held to appear at the Court House in The Town of Ripley after the 1st Monday of March 1868. for the charge of murder." A preprinted form with hand written additions.<br /> <br /> There is a David Lumley in the 1845 Mississippi census recording 2 males & 4 females in Tishomingo county. Ancestry dot com<br /> <br /> 8 x 12 1/2" laid paper with blue lines original folds official embossed stamp of the Circuit Court of Tippah County. Some splits at folds. unknown
182787802Albany: D. M'Glashan 1827. First and Only Edition. Octavo in 4's. 24cm. Stab bound pages with the title page serving as the front cover and no trace that the pamphlet was ever bound. 35pp. Some mild chipping to edges and extremities most notably the upper right corner toning and soiling to wraps; internally clean but uniformly toned with offsetting from the type throughout edges untrimmed luxuriously wide margins some traces of careless opening in places. Very good by dint of survival and solidity rather than beauty the paper is cheap and the pamphlet was printed to leverage opportunity rather than posterity.<br /> <br /> A notable and at the time highly controversial trial dealing with what was later referred to as "The Murder at Cherry Hill." The prominent New York Van Rensselaer family owned and lived at Cherry Hill Farm in Albany the daughter Elsie was married somewhat unhappily to John Whipple and fell for a younger man she met in a bar by the name of Jesse Strang. The couple fell in love Elsie expressed her deep unhappiness with Whipple; Strang masquerading under the name of Jesse Orton took on a job at the farm and began an affair with Elsie which was maintained by the house staff many of whom were enslaved people of color whose testimonies were heard at the trial passing notes between the two. Elsie chafing somewhat at having to endure her legal husband resolved that he must die to make way for Strang and they would run away together to Canada. <br /> <br /> The first plan was arsenic poisoning which failed. What Elsie lacked in poisoning ability she made up for with murderous intent and she purchased a rifle removed the ammunition from her now somewhat suspicious husband's gun and induced Strang who does not come across as the sharpest tool in the shed to shoot Whipple dead. Strang then attempted to fabricate an alibi which did not hold up and he was arrested. What followed was a widely publicised trial in which both defendants turned on each other Elsie's status as the daughter of prominent landowners was leveraged as protection from any serious punishment and Strang bore the brunt of the law. He had of course further doomed himself by attempting to plant evidence lying under several oaths and generally being one of the less gifted murderers of the early 19th century; he was hanged Elsie went home to Cherry Hill the Van Rensselaer's invested heavily in local collective amnesia and the rest of the US stared somewhat incredulously and gossiped over their breakfast grits. <br /> It was a carnival of awfulness that posed many questions about the societal rights and freedoms of women the privileges of wealth and the integrity of the judicial system. Fairly represented in institutions with 20 examples in US libraries but scarce in commerce and usually in later binding. D. M'Glashan unknown
1911List812California 1911. Single sheet measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Two vertical folds two holes punched at upper margin very good condition overall. Very Good. An uncommon survival possibly published by the Santa Clara County Sherriff’s Office showing two wanted criminals from 1911 who were travelling together. The first a C.K. Paullins was the editor of the Rocky Mountain Moose and is wanted for embezzlement. The second a Ruby J. Stanley alias Lillian Raymond is known as “Kentucky.†According to the flyer “This woman is very well known in the tenderloin of Los Angeles and Fresno. She dresses in the latest style and wears fancy dresses… These people work all kinds of schemes to make money. I wish you would keep a sharp lookout for these parties… W.J. Newman Constable Visalia California. Dated October 23 1911.â€. unknown
193085251Paris: Privately Printed by Charles Carrington 1930. First Thus. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's green buckram titled and decorated in dark green to spine and front board. 679pp. Light superficial scuffing to corners and spine ends of the very hard-wearing cloth a little toning and discoloration in places strong and handsome; internally clean with some light cosmetic toning. A very good solid copy.<br /> <br /> The culmination of Proal's career-long fascination with crimes of passion a category which he extended to include suicide and self harm; their motivations their complexities disparities in punishment or treatment and in cataloging their bewildering diversity. Privately Printed by Charles Carrington unknown
189831956Minnesota: Benson's Detective Agency Duluth; Thomas Owens Two Harbors 1898. Broadside. Good. Broadside. Wanted poster. Approx. 9.5" x 6". Paper is worn upper edge with small edge tears. "Received Nov 21 1898 Ans'd" stamped in purple at the bottom. Small edge chips to the paper on the right margins. Benson's Detective Agency, Duluth; Thomas Owens, Two Harbors unknown
189135019Boston: Enterprise Publishing Co 1891. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Stapled wraps. Approx. 7" x 5". 45 pages. Light brown paper covers with black title bordered in black on the front cover. Spine is chipped Covers detached. Contents clean. Enterprise Publishing Co unknown
18995150Kansas City Mo 1899. Very good. Ten carte-de-visite photographs 4 x 2.5 inches or slightly smaller on thick cardboard mounts four with partially-printed "rap sheets" on verso completed in manuscript. Occasional edge and surface wear as well as generally light dust-soiling. A nice group. A group of ten fabulous mugshot photographs or studio portraits featuring criminals in the last few years of the 1800s in Kansas City Missouri. Four of the photographs are particularly interesting for the personal and criminal history information recorded on their versos. These photographs are pre-printed with a list of fields to be filled out by the criminal or perhaps the jailer. The combination of fields varies slightly on three of the four cards but generally they all ask for similar information including name; aliases nationality age height weight eye color hair color complexion occupation or "Criminal Occupation" the pertinent crime place of arrest arresting officer date date of arrest and distinguishing marks or "Peculiarities of Build Features Scars Marks etc.". <br /> <br /> One of the mugshots is that of James Carrington Francis 1869-1892. At the bottom of his card is written: "Killed at Pleasanton KS for Pacific Ex Robbery Jan. 23 '92." Francis had indeed taken part in the robbery of the Frisco Express out of St. Louis on the night of November 30 1891. During the robbery two masked men boarded that train as it was leaving St. Louis. They remained in seclusion until they had traveled a few miles and then presented pistols to the heads of the engineer and fireman. They ordered them to stop at the point where two accomplices of the highwaymen were stationed. The engineer and fireman were then ordered from the cab and kept covered while the party proceeded to the express car where the robbers demanded admission but were refused by the messenger. The robbers then set off a stick of dynamite and blew in the side of the car seriously injuring the messenger. They then entered blew open the safe and after taking $10000 made their escape. The Pinkerton Detective Agency and Chief of Detectives Desmond of St. Louis investigated the case and gathered evidence which convinced them that the robbers were Marion Hedgepeth Dink Wilson Adelbert Slye and James Francis.<br /> <br /> The other three men whose photographs are supplemented with personal information include Frank Norris Patrick Raine and George Conley. Oddly enough the crimes of all four men are not stipulated on the present photographs. Norris was a baker by trade with a scar on the palm of his hand and a "knuckle knocked down" who was arrested on October 5 1895. Patrick Raine was a waiter with a forearm tattoo and "2 vax scars on left arm" arrested on January 24 1899. George Conley alias George Baker or George King was a brakeman arrested on July 12 1897. The remaining photographs do not include identifying information save for two with penciled names on the verso and one with a studio stamp from J.V. Dabbs in Fort Scott Kansas but were found with the previous four photographs and would likely reward further research into the Wild West criminal world of late-19th century Kansas. unknown
193457184London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd. c. 1934 1940. 8vo. 223 1 pp. Photo frontisp. Green publisher’s cloth white lettering on spine minor rubbing shelfwear w/ d.j. photo cover art minor edgewear small tear to upper right corner some scuffing still VG/VG copy. First Treasure Library edition No. 9 -- listing to this title on back cover of jacket and including Brust I guarded Kings 1940 as no. 7 as well as Pawley’s My Bandit Hosts 1939. Leeson participated in the “Jack the Ripper†investigations was known as “the man who was shot at Sidney Street†penetrated criminal organizations and interacted with Lenin Trotsky Stinie Morrison Anarchists and more. Often without the exceedingly scarce dustjacket these are mis-catalogued as the 1934 first edition but jacket clearly establishes date of publication and also features the Treasure Library 3/6 price. Stanley Paul & Co., Ltd., hardcover
19043207<p>6-5/8 x 5-3/8 inches. 84pp; 524pp; 6411pp; 444pp; 10pp; 1223pp illustrations. Blue cloth with maroon and black spine labels stamped in gilt; original blue or grey wrappers printed in black for each booklet bound in. B&w illustrations. Minor wear to board corners and spine ends; light sunning to some bound-in wrappers; slight scuffing to title page and archivally repaired corner of one leaf in first booklet. Very Good or better overall.</p><p>A bound volume of addresses by William A. Pinkerton on various types of crime as well two booklets on individual criminals by Pinkerton and from the archives of the Pinkerton detective agency. Contains the following in the order bound in:</p><p>- <em>Train Robberies Train Robbers and the "Holdup" Men. Address by William A. Pinkerton. Annual Convention International Association Chiefs of Police. Jamestown VA. 1907. </em>Chicago and New York: Copyrighted by Wm. A. Pinkerton and Robert A. Pinkerton November 1907.</p><p>- <em>Bank "Sneak" Thieves. Paper Read by William A. Pinkerton. Annual Convention International Association Chiefs of Police. Hot Springs Ark. April 11th 1906. </em>Chicago and New York: Copyrighted by William A. and Robert A. Pinkerton Nov. 1906.</p><p>- <em>The "Yeggman": Bank Vault and Safe Burglar of To-Day. Paper Read by William A. Pinkerton. Annual Convention International Association Chiefs of Police. St. Louis MO. June 6th to June 11th 1904. </em>Chicago and New York: William A. Pinkerton and Robert A. Pinkerton August 1904.</p><p>- <em>"Forgery". Paper Read by William A. Pinkerton. Annual Convention International Association Chiefs of Police. Washington D. C. May 22nd 1905. </em>Chicago and New York: William A. Pinkerton and Robert A. Pinkerton August 1905.</p><p>- <em>Timothy Webster Spy of the Rebellion. </em>Chicago and New York: William A. Pinkerton and Robert A. Pinkerton November 1906.</p><p>- <em>Adam Worth Alias "Little Adam." Theft and Recover of Gainsborough's "Duchess of Devonshire."</em> Third Edition. New York Pinkerton's National Detective Agency January 1904.</p><p>Of varying degrees of scarcity in OCLC all uncommon in commerce.</p> [William A. Pinkerton and Robert A. Pinkerton / Pinkerton Detective Agency] hardcover
