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1836ref. 665381836. Concord NH 1836. Concord NH 1836. "Oh! Lust Accursed Lust! 'Twas This for Which I Did the Deed" Murder Broadside. Prescott Abraham d. 1836. A Private Individual at the Bar. Abr'm Prescott's Confession Of the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran of Pembroke N.H.--June 23 1833. Concord NH.: S.n. 1836. Single-sheet broadside measuring 17" x 11-1/2" 43.2 cm x 29.2 cm. Letterpress text in two columns containing twenty stanzas of verse enclosed within a decorative woodcut ornamental border; the text is surmounted by a large woodcut vignette of a coffin. Good condition. Light uniform browning with a few minor stains; original horizontal and vertical fold lines exhibit some small tears repaired on the verso without loss to text. Edges chipped with a notable section lacking from the bottom margin just touching the bottom right corner of the border but entirely clear of the letterpress verse. A remarkably well-preserved fragile survival of early New England street literature. $1950. This exceptionally rare execution broadside serves as a sensational artifact from one of the most legally significant criminal cases in early nineteenth-century New England. Abraham Prescott was convicted of the brutal June 1833 murder of his employer's wife Sally Cochran following two highly publicized trials held in Concord New Hampshire in 1834 and 1835. The case drew massive public interest and stands as a major landmark in American legal history due to the robust deeply sophisticated insanity defense mounted by Prescott's counsel a strategy that sparked intense contemporary debate regarding moral insanity somnambulism and criminal responsibility long before the modern legal standard was codified. Despite his lawyers' innovative defense Prescott was sentenced to death. After a temporary stay delayed his initial December 1835 execution date he was publicly hanged in Hopkinton New Hampshire on January 6 1836. Published immediately following his execution to satisfy a captivated public this broadside features a dramatic moralizing verse account that rejects the insanity defense entirely. Instead it explicitly frames the murder as a calculated crime of passion capturing the prevailing public sentiment and punitive theological views of the era with the striking verse: "Oh! lust accursed lust! 'twas this / For which I did the deed; / Forfeiting heaven a. unknown
1864ref. 49788N.p. 1864. Very Good. N.p.: 1864. Manuscript letter written in ink signed by Royce at the end and on the verso. Single leaf 26.5x21cm; chips and rubbing; a few closed tears with archival tape repairs; Very Good. An unusual insightful document highlighting the laws of war and murder during the Civil War. Royce's petition seeks justice for Confederate Captain Frank R. Gurley sent to the Confederate Commission of Exchange. Its author Confederate Captain Moses Strong Royce was captured in Tennessee and imprisoned at Nashville. Gurley Royce's cell-mate had killed Union General Robert McCook of Ohio near Huntsville Alabama in August 1862. In October 1863 Union forces captured Gurley and charged him with murdering McCook. Gurley Union officials claimed was a guerrilla who shot McCook while the General was lying in an ambulance. Southerners claimed that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a regular soldier in the Confederacy's 4th Alabama Cavalry and that he killed McCook according to the laws of war. Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper fanned the flames claiming that lawless Confederate guerrillas murdered the general; feelings ran high. "US General Grant wrote CS General Hardee in December of 1863 and said that although Gurley was a member of the Confederate army that did not preclude him from being tried for having committed a foul murder" online Huntsville-Madison County Public Library essay 'Frank B. Gurley's 1866 Diary'. Having escaped from prison in March 1864 Royce plead Gurley's case. "He was confined in a cell for sixty-eight days and allowed only about one hour a day for exercise and was put upon trial for the killing of Genl. McCook. He was obliged to employ counsel to defend himself at an expense of 2500 dollars in greenbacks. The evidence produced completely exonerated him of anything like murder and the argument of his counsel was a complete vindication of his right as a soldier and an officer to do all that he did in bringing Genl. McCook to his death. "When the trial was nearly ended four communications by flag of truce were sent to the court and were there read - one from Lt. Col. Hambrick one from Genl. Forrest one from Genl. Hardee and one from Genl. Johnston" assuring that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a duly enrolled member of the Confederate military forces. Nevertheless Gurley was found guilty and sentenced to death. "The undersigned believes that if an effort were to be made by the Confederate Commission of Exchange to have Capt. Gurley exchanged the Federal authorities would immediately send him forward for that purpose and as a friend of Capt. Gurley the undersigned respectfully requests General Johnston to use his influence in procuring the exchange of Capt. Gurley. Respectfully submitted M. S. Royce." Even after War's end the dispute continued. Gurley having been released from prison in an administrative snafu was re-arrested charged but finally released and placed on parole in April 1866. . unknown books
1864ref. 49788N.p. 1864. Very Good. N.p.: 1864. Manuscript letter written in ink signed by Royce at the end and on the verso. Single leaf 26.5x21cm; chips and rubbing; a few closed tears with archival tape repairs; Very Good. An unusual insightful document highlighting the laws of war and murder during the Civil War. Royce's petition seeks justice for Confederate Captain Frank R. Gurley sent to the Confederate Commission of Exchange. Its author Confederate Captain Moses Strong Royce was captured in Tennessee and imprisoned at Nashville. Gurley Royce's cell-mate had killed Union General Robert McCook of Ohio near Huntsville Alabama in August 1862. In October 1863 Union forces captured Gurley and charged him with murdering McCook. Gurley Union officials claimed was a guerrilla who shot McCook while the General was lying in an ambulance. Southerners claimed that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a regular soldier in the Confederacy's 4th Alabama Cavalry and that he killed McCook according to the laws of war. Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper fanned the flames claiming that lawless Confederate guerrillas murdered the general; feelings ran high. "US General Grant wrote CS General Hardee in December of 1863 and said that although Gurley was a member of the Confederate army that did not preclude him from being tried for having committed a foul murder" online Huntsville-Madison County Public Library essay 'Frank B. Gurley's 1866 Diary'. Having escaped from prison in March 1864 Royce plead Gurley's case. "He was confined in a cell for sixty-eight days and allowed only about one hour a day for exercise and was put upon trial for the killing of Genl. McCook. He was obliged to employ counsel to defend himself at an expense of 2500 dollars in greenbacks. The evidence produced completely exonerated him of anything like murder and the argument of his counsel was a complete vindication of his right as a soldier and an officer to do all that he did in bringing Genl. McCook to his death. "When the trial was nearly ended four communications by flag of truce were sent to the court and were there read - one from Lt. Col. Hambrick one from Genl. Forrest one from Genl. Hardee and one from Genl. Johnston" assuring that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a duly enrolled member of the Confederate military forces. Nevertheless Gurley was found guilty and sentenced to death. "The undersigned believes that if an effort were to be made by the Confederate Commission of Exchange to have Capt. Gurley exchanged the Federal authorities would immediately send him forward for that purpose and as a friend of Capt. Gurley the undersigned respectfully requests General Johnston to use his influence in procuring the exchange of Capt. Gurley. Respectfully submitted M. S. Royce." Even after War's end the dispute continued. Gurley having been released from prison in an administrative snafu was re-arrested charged but finally released and placed on parole in April 1866. . unknown
1914ref. 659851914. New York 1912-1914. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" frame. New York 1912-1914. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" frame. "His Famous Wig Composed Entirely of Split Hairs and Adorned with the Ceremonial Crimson Tape" Robinson Boardman 1876-1952. Becker-Rosenthal Murder Trial. Mr. Justice Precedent. New York 1914. 21" x 15-1/2" 53.3 x 39.4 cm gouache image on 26" x 19-1/2" 66 x 49.5 cm sheet image signed twice and inscribed by Robinson caption in pencil below image most likely in another hand laid down on illustration board. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" 77.5 x 60.9 cm wooden frame glazed. Light soiling a few minor stains and four crop-marks to margins outside of image which could be covered with a matte image fine. Several minor scuffs and nicks to frame. An exceptional unique piece of original artwork capturing a defining moment in American legal and criminal history. $3500. This striking original gouache was created to illustrate "Leaden Footed Justice in New York State" a feature article published in the Special Feature section of the New York Tribune on Sunday March 1 1914. The penciled caption reads:"Mr. Justice Precedent wearing his famous wig composed entirely of split hairs and adorned with the ceremonial crimson tape." The caricature was a scathing commentary on the notoriously protracted bureaucratically tangled legal proceedings of the Becker-Rosenthal Murder case which centered on NYPD Police Lieutenant Charles Becker who ran a massive protection racket targeting illegal Manhattan casinos. When gambling house owner Herman Rosenthal threatened to expose Becker's corruption to District Attorney Charles S. Whitman Becker hired a gang of underworld executioners including "Gyp the Blood" and "Lefty Louie" to gun Rosenthal down outside the Hotel Metropole. The investigation and subsequent trials completely dominated New York front pages. Becker's first trial began on October 7 1912 resulting in a conviction that was subsequently overturned on appeal by the New York Court of Appeals due to judicial bias. His highly anticipated second trial began on May 6 1914 just over two months after this cartoon appeared. Becker was convicted a second time and after his appeals were exhausted in 1915 went to the electric chair at Sing Sing-marking the first time in U.S. history a police officer was executed for murder. The case profoundly shook the public psyche and entered the cultural lexicon most. unknown books
1914ref. 659851914. New York 1912-1914. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" frame. New York 1912-1914. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" frame. "His Famous Wig Composed Entirely of Split Hairs and Adorned with the Ceremonial Crimson Tape" Robinson Boardman 1876-1952. Becker-Rosenthal Murder Trial. Mr. Justice Precedent. New York 1914. 21" x 15-1/2" 53.3 x 39.4 cm gouache image on 26" x 19-1/2" 66 x 49.5 cm sheet image signed twice and inscribed by Robinson caption in pencil below image most likely in another hand laid down on illustration board. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" 77.5 x 60.9 cm wooden frame glazed. Light soiling a few minor stains and four crop-marks to margins outside of image which could be covered with a matte image fine. Several minor scuffs and nicks to frame. An exceptional unique piece of original artwork capturing a defining moment in American legal and criminal history. $3500. This striking original gouache was created to illustrate "Leaden Footed Justice in New York State" a feature article published in the Special Feature section of the New York Tribune on Sunday March 1 1914. The penciled caption reads:"Mr. Justice Precedent wearing his famous wig composed entirely of split hairs and adorned with the ceremonial crimson tape." The caricature was a scathing commentary on the notoriously protracted bureaucratically tangled legal proceedings of the Becker-Rosenthal Murder case which centered on NYPD Police Lieutenant Charles Becker who ran a massive protection racket targeting illegal Manhattan casinos. When gambling house owner Herman Rosenthal threatened to expose Becker's corruption to District Attorney Charles S. Whitman Becker hired a gang of underworld executioners including "Gyp the Blood" and "Lefty Louie" to gun Rosenthal down outside the Hotel Metropole. The investigation and subsequent trials completely dominated New York front pages. Becker's first trial began on October 7 1912 resulting in a conviction that was subsequently overturned on appeal by the New York Court of Appeals due to judicial bias. His highly anticipated second trial began on May 6 1914 just over two months after this cartoon appeared. Becker was convicted a second time and after his appeals were exhausted in 1915 went to the electric chair at Sing Sing-marking the first time in U.S. history a police officer was executed for murder. The case profoundly shook the public psyche and entered the cultural lexicon most. unknown
1849ref. 717871849. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm. Unrecorded Oxfordshire Ephemera: A Graphic Mid-Victorian Murder Broadside Broadside. Murder. Great Britain. Attempted Murder of a Wife by Her Husband Near Banbury Oxfordshire. Reading: Jones Printer 1849. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm broadside triple-column text below headline and woodcut image of a man stabbing a woman flanked by six stanzas of verse. Light toning and edgewear vertical and horizontal folds the latter with early repair fold line to lower right-hand corner light foxing to margins negligible faint dampstain to left-hand margin touching a bit of text. A remarkably well-preserved example of fragile Victorian street literature. $3850. A chilling primary account of the case of James Layton. Driven by financial ruin and paranoid delusions Layton attacked his wife with both a pistol and a knife during a walk near Banbury. Despite the intervention of nearby laborers the victim eventually succumbed to her wounds. The case is a significant example of mid-19th-century forensic psychiatry; Layton was ultimately found "not guilty by reason of insanity" reflecting the evolving legal treatment of mental illness in the Victorian era. This rare broadside appears to be unrecorded. No copies located on OCLC or Library Hub. Not at the British Library or the university of Oxford. unknown books
1849ref. 717871849. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm. Unrecorded Oxfordshire Ephemera: A Graphic Mid-Victorian Murder Broadside Broadside. Murder. Great Britain. Attempted Murder of a Wife by Her Husband Near Banbury Oxfordshire. Reading: Jones Printer 1849. 14-1/2" x 10" 36.8 x 25.4 cm broadside triple-column text below headline and woodcut image of a man stabbing a woman flanked by six stanzas of verse. Light toning and edgewear vertical and horizontal folds the latter with early repair fold line to lower right-hand corner light foxing to margins negligible faint dampstain to left-hand margin touching a bit of text. A remarkably well-preserved example of fragile Victorian street literature. $3850. A chilling primary account of the case of James Layton. Driven by financial ruin and paranoid delusions Layton attacked his wife with both a pistol and a knife during a walk near Banbury. Despite the intervention of nearby laborers the victim eventually succumbed to her wounds. The case is a significant example of mid-19th-century forensic psychiatry; Layton was ultimately found "not guilty by reason of insanity" reflecting the evolving legal treatment of mental illness in the Victorian era. This rare broadside appears to be unrecorded. No copies located on OCLC or Library Hub. Not at the British Library or the university of Oxford. unknown
1938First appearance of this prescient series of fictional letters, spanning sixteen months between 1932 and 1934, between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his gentile business partner who has returned to Germany in the formative years of the Nazi regime. Simon & Schuster published the first book edition in 1939 and a film noir version followed in 1944. Subsequent stage play performances have continued globally until recent years. The magnum opus of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor [1903-1996], she was assigned the nom de plume Kressman Taylor by her husband and Story's editor Whit Burnett who, per an online reference, felt the concept of murder by mail was too strong to appear under the name of a woman. Occupies pages 20-32 of this 104 page magazine which is clean and unmarked with respectful wear. Front cover beginning to loosen and must be handled gently. Two-inch openings at head and foot of front cover at spine. A quality copy of this stunning literary achievement. Book
