(CRIME) The Trial of Cyrus B Dean for the Murder of Jonathan

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(CRIME.) The Trial of Cyrus B. Dean for the Murder of Jonathan Ormsby and Asa Marsh. 48 pages. 8vo, disbound; moderate foxing and dampstaining, lacking a bit of the title page corner; uncut. Burlington, VT: Samuel Mills, 1808

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Dean was engaged in smuggling goods up Lake Champlain into Canada on his ship Black Snake. "The victims were two revenue agents who tried to intercept smugglers taking potash into Canada. They were shot with a gun nine feet, four inches long. Dean was sentenced to hang"--McDade, Annals of Murder 246. McCorison, Vermont Imprints 983; Sabin 19019; Shaw & Shoemaker 16344.