Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CRIME.) Group of 7 murder trial pamphlets. 8vo, various bindings and conditions. Vp, 1841-73

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The Life and Confession of John Caldwell Colt. This edition not in McDade. New York, [1841?] Argument of William H. Seward, in Defense of William Freeman. 4th edition. Auburn, NY, 1846 Kirk. The Murderer: A Discourse Occasioned by the Trial and Execution of John W. Webster. See above lot. Not in McDade. Boston, 1850 Trial of Professor John W. Webster for the Murder of Doctor George Parkman. McDade 1066. New York, 1850 A Full and Authentic Report of the Testimony on the Trial of Matt. F. Ward. McDade 1042. New York, 1854 Address of his Excellency Alexander H. Bullock . . . presenting the case of Edward W. Green. Green had murdered a teenaged bank clerk in Malden, MA. McDade 382. Boston, 1865 [i.e. 1866] Sargeant. The Trial Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Boorn for the Murder of Russell Colvin. Two Vermont brothers confessed to murdering their missing brother-in-law, then were acquitted when the alleged victim reappeared. McDade 113. Manchester, VT, 1873.