(PRESIDENTS 1881) Dead The President Expired Last Night at

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(PRESIDENTS--1881.) Dead. The President Expired Last Night at 10.35. Letterpress broadside extra slip, 7 x 3 inches; worn at folds, minor soiling. Np, [20 September 1881]

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This extra is based on Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh's 11:20 p.m. telegraph statement on the death of President Garfield. The issuing newspaper is unknown, and it appears to be unrecorded.