(ABRAHAM LINCOLN) Chautauqua Democrat Extra assassination br

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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN.) Chautauqua Democrat Extra assassination broadside. Letterpress broadside, 16 x 8 1/2 inches, with headline "Reported Death of Abm. Lincoln, Attack on Secretary Seward"; folds, foxing, moderate edge wear. Chautauqua, NY, 15 April 1865

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"2d edition," with "particulars of the President's assassination, as received at 9 10 this morning." The report was received at Jamestown, NY a few miles away, and credit is given to an Atlantic & Great Western railway employee who presumably delivered the news by train: "We are indebted to Arthur, A. & G.W.R. for the above particulars." Brown University holds an example of the first edition, which is identical in text and typesetting except for the first line. The Library of Congress also holds a copy of this second edition; none traced at auction.