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Broadside; Murder; Welch, MatthewBiblio.com

An Account of the Cruel and Barbarous Murder of Mary Baker.

1813ref. 843901813. A Rare Regency Murder Broadside & Moral "Caution": OCLC and Library Hub Locate Only One Copy Broadside. Murder. Welch Matthew. An Account of the Cruel and Barbarous Murder of Mary Baker Supposed by Matthew Welch With Whom She Lived in Adultery In Drury-Lane London Early on Monday Morning June 21 1813. Being an Awful Caution and Warning to All Whoremongers and Adulterers. Newcastle: Marshall Printer 1813. 11-1/2" x 6-3/4" 29 x 17.3 cm broadside mounted to 13" x 10" 33 x 25.9 cm backing sheet. Moderate toning light foxing and soiling small tear and a few tiny holes to broadside without loss to text moderate toning and light foxing to backing sheet which was removed from an album. Rare. $1850. A remarkably rare luridly titled provincial broadside detailing a gruesome London murder. Mary Baker and Matthew Welch "cohabited as man and wife" in Drury Lane despite both being married to other people. Following a violent domestic quarrel that required the landlord's intervention Baker was discovered murdered with "her brains beat out several cuts on her head and her breast black from the blows she had received." According to this account the violence was triggered by jealousy after Baker paid a visit to her actual husband which "provoked the vengeance of her bloody paramour." While Regency-era street literature and true-crime broadsides typically balanced moral instruction with cheap titillation this Newcastle printing adopts an exceptionally strident fire-and-brimstone tone. Rather than casting Baker purely as a victim the text frames her horrific murder as a consequence of her own sins-calling it "not only.an awful judgment of God upon the guilty offenders but also.a salutary caution and warning to others that they may avoid the paths which inevitably lead to destruction." An exceptional survival of regional popular print culture capturing 19th-century attitudes toward domestic violence infidelity and divine retribution. Extremely rare. OCLC and Library Hub locate only one solitary copy globally held at the British Library. unknown

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Murder; Bell, John Any Bird; Bell, JamesBiblio.com

A Narrative of the Facts Relative to the Murder of Richard Faulkner.

1831ref. 827581831. Rare Account of a 14-Year-Old Murderer Murder. Bell John Any Bird 1816-1831. A Narrative of the Facts Relative to the Murder of Richard Faulkner Taylor In the Woods Between Rochester and Maidstone On Friday the 4th of March 1831 With the Proceedings on the Coroner's Inquest: The Highly Interesting Evidence of James Bell Not Adduced on the Trial Comprising a Complete and Circumstantial History of the Diabolical Affair Together with the Trial of John Any Bird Bell for the Murder: Including the Confession of the Prisoner And an Account of His Behaviour After Condemnation: Also an Abstract from the Very Excellent Discourse of the Rev. J. Winter Being the Condemned Sermon Preached at the Chapel of the Gaol on the Sunday Previous to the Execution: To Which is Added A Sketch of the Prisoner's Life. Rochester England: Printed and Sold by S. Caddel; And May be Had of Every Bookseller in the County 1831. 42 pp. Lithograph portrait frontispiece of John and James Bell. Octavo 9" x 5-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in recent wrappers incorporating front cover of original printed wrappers untrimmed edges. Negligible light edgewear and a few minor creases light soiling and a few faint spots to original wrapper. Moderate toning to interior light soiling and wear to outer edges of several leaves light foxing to a few leaves early owner signature J.S. Bullard dated August 1831 to head of title page. $500. The fourteen-year-old Bell confessed to killing Richard Faulkner Taylor 1817-1831 thirteen presumably for the small sum of money Taylor was carrying home. Any Bird Bell's name is sometimes given as James probably a result of confusion with his younger brother James Bell. The younger brother apparently a witness to the crime testified against him at trial where he was convicted of murder. Bell was the youngest person executed in England in the nineteenth century. Death sentences were often given to children and teenagers but they were usually commuted. He was also the first person hanged by William Calcraft 1800-1879 who went on to become one of the most prolific British executioners and something of a celebrity. An online search of Rochester genealogy resources locates a J.S. Bullard who was a solicitor's clerk during the 1830s. OCLC locates 4 copies British Library 2 copies Library of Cong. unknown

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Murder; Stokes, Edward S; Fisk, JamesBiblio.com

Life Adventures Strange Career and Assassination of Col James Fisk.

1872ref. 712841872. Jealousy Fraud Accusations and Murder: The 1872 Assassination of "Jubilee Jim" Fisk Murder. Stokes Edward S. 1841-1901. Fisk James Jr. 1835-1872. Life Adventures Strange Career And Assassination of Col. James Fisk Jr. The Fisk-Stokes Tragedy. All about Miss Mansfield. Those Rich Rare And Racy Letters and Many Oddities Now for the First Time Made Public. Philadelphia: Published by Barclay & Co. 1872. First and Only Edition. ii 19-111 1 pp. 12 full-page engraved woodcuts. Complete. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in pictorial wrappers. Binding slightly cocked light soiling rubbing to corners with light wear spine ends abraded wrappers just beginning to detach at ends. Moderate toning light foxing to a few leaves. $1250. This sensational nineteenth-century sensationalized pamphlet details the infamous Gilded Age murder of "Jubilee Jim" Fisk a notorious financial speculator and robber baron who along with Jay Gould controlled the Erie Railroad. The narrative exposes the intricate love triangle and financial feud involving Fisk his associate Edward S. Stokes and Fisk's mistress Helen Josephine "Josie" Mansfield. Following a series of escalating legal battles over embezzlement and false imprisonment Mansfield threatened to publish extortionate letters revealing Fisk's illicit corporate transactions. After a humiliating courtroom cross-examination regarding her personal life on January 6 1872 an enraged Stokes tracked Fisk to New York's Broadway Central Hotel and shot him on the grand staircase. Following three high-profile trials Stokes was ultimately convicted of third-degree manslaughter. This work serves as an important primary artifact of Gilded Age public interest in white-collar corruption tabloid journalism and the volatile business culture of 1870s New York. OCLC locates 11 copies 2 in law libraries Library of Congress Yale. McDade The Annals of Murder 919. unknown

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(Americana - 20th Century - Christian Missionary - Murder - Margaret B Edgar)Biblio.com

1932 The Murder of Missionary Margaret B. Edgar - Typed Letter from Jean S. Smith American Mission Latakia Syria to the Secretary of the Missionary Board Dr. Findlay S. Wilson with His Editorial Comment and Censorship.

1932ref. 030165Syria 1932. 3 pages; densely typed; sent from the American Mission Latakia. At the top of the first sheet is a handwritten comment " Via Air Mail to Paris. Rec'd Phila. Feb. 10 '32 and 'copy'." Several more comments and corrections are made on the further pages; these are initialed by "F.M.W."; Dr. Findlay S. Wilson the Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board. These comments are also censorious requesting that certain bracketed information is not to be printed presumably for church or public exposure; this censorship usually has to do with reference to interactions with the Moslem community. The text deals with the death of Margaret "Miss Maggie" B. Edgar a seventy-year-old semi-retired Christian missionary in Latakia Syria considered a great tragedy for that mission community. "…There is plenty of circumstantial evidence to indicate that she was foully murdered by the man of the house where she made her last visit and near where she was last seen in the flesh. The man is known to have other blood on his soul. It is "whispered" that a woman of the family cried out as Miss Edgar entered that day: "Oh Miss Edgar why did you come now My brother will kill you." But the man roughly silenced her…" quoting from the PuritanBoard site which in turn has taken the information from Andrew James McFarland "Eight Decades in Syria" Ch. 8 Miss Edgar had been a missionary in the Middle East for decades and though less active than formerly had requested to stay and read the Bible with women of the Moslem community. The letter recounts the last 24 hours of her life in detail and as known at that time - and the subsequent frantic search for her whereabouts. Approx. 8 3/4" x 11" size on thin 'airmail' style paper; old fold lines; a little edge-wear and couple old discolorations on last sheet no loss of text; in very good condition. . Correspondence. Very Good.

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Robinson, Boardman; Becker-Rosenthal Murder TrialBiblio.com

Mr Justice Precedent. 21" x 15-1/2" gouache image on 26" x 19-1/2

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

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