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Account of the short life and ignominious death of Stephen Merrill Clark : who was executed at Salem on Thursday the tenth day of May, 1821, at the early age of 16 years and 9 months, for the crime of arson.
(1821)
The alleged malpractice suit of Walsh vs. Sayre.
(1870)
The American Tract Society, at Boston, and The American Tract Society, at New York : on a decree to interplead ; The American Tract Society vs. Alexander Dewitt, adm'r, etc. : the testimony of the American Tract Society, at Boston, in said cases.
([1862?])
An authentic life of John C. Colt : now imprisoned for killing Samuel Adams, in New York, on the seventeenth of September, 1841.
(1842)
The cause of the fundholders maintained and defended.
(1822)
A full report of the trials of the Bristol rioters before the special commission appointed to deliver the gaol of this city in January 1832, with the sentences and executions consequent thereon; also, a report of the proceedings of the court martial appoited to investigate the conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Brereton, inspecting field officer of the Bristol district : with full particulars of the suicide of that unfortunate officer and the inquest held on his body.
(1832)
A Letter to the secret committee : containing certain extraordinary practices of the late M---r, intended to have been laid before them in a private manner, and now submitted to their publick consideration
(1742)
The Life, confession and atrocious crimes of Antoine Probst, the murderer of the Deering family : to which is added a graphic account of many of the most horrible and mysterious murders committed in this and other countries.
(1866)
Life and confession of Ann Walters, the female murderess! : also the execution of Enos G. Dudley, at Haverhill, N.H., May 23rd, 1849 : to which is added the confession of Mary Runkle, who was executed for murder.
(1850)
The life of Dick En-l--d, alias Captain En-l--d; or turf memory. With notes and illustrations.
(1792)
Lives and confessions of John Williams, Francis Frederick, John P. Rog, and Peter Peterson, who were tried at the United States Circuit Court at Boston, for murder & piracy; sentenced to be executed Jan. 21, 1819; and afterwards reprieved till Feb. 18, 1819
(1819)
The lives of the felons, or, American criminal calendar / compiled in part from the New-York "National police gazette", and corrected, enlarged and revised on careful comparison with the criminal records of the various states ...
([1846?])
New Orleans Custom-house officials. Fraudulent and dishonest acts of W.P. Kellogg, collector. His attempted defense. Additional allegations and facts. Perjurers, smugglers and Kellogg associate. His accomplices and victims exposed.
(1867)
Opinion of the Supreme court of the United States, at January term, 1832, delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, together with the opinion of Mr. Justice McLean, in the case of Samuel A. Worcester, plaintiff in error, versus the state of Georgia: with a statement of the case, extracted from the records of the Supreme Court of the United States.
(1832)
The Pirates : a brief account of the horrid massacre of the captain, mate, and supercargo of the schooner Plattsburg, of Baltimore, on the high seas, in July 1816, by a part of the crew of said vessel ... : annexed, are some remarks relating to the trial
(1819)
Poor Mary Pomeroy! the Jersey City music teacher.
(1874)
Poor Mary Stannard! : a full and thrilling story of the circumstances connected with her murder : history of the monstrous Madison crime ...
(1879)
A refutation, by his friends, of the calumnies against David Henshaw, in relation to the failure of the Commonwealth bank, and the transfer of South Boston lands to the United States.
(1844)
Remarkable instances of circumstantial evidence given on trials for criminal acts which has resulted in the conviction and execution of innocent persons, together with after disclosures.
(1833)
Report of the evidence in the case of John Stephen Bartlett, M.D., versus the Mass. Medical Society, as given before a committee of the Legislature at the session of 1839.
(1839)
Report of the proceedings in the case of Ruths vs Reuling : tried in the Circuit Court of Howard County, MD, March term, 1880.
(1880)
Report of the trial of Humphrey Boyle, indicted at the instance of the Constitutional Association, as a man with name unknown : for pubtishing [sic] an alleged blasphemous and seditious libel, as one of the shopmen of Mr. Carlile; which took place before Mr. Common Sergeant Denman, and a common jury, at the Old Bailey Sessions House, on the 27th of May, 1822. With a narrative of the proceedings against the defendant before trial. To which is attached, the trial of Joseph Rhodes, under the name of Wm. Holmes, as forced upon him, for publishing a copy of the same pamphlet
(1822)
Rev. W.R. Gordon vs. Rev. J.S. Ebaugh: To the Classis of New York. New York, November 6th, 1852.
(1852)
Scenes from the lives of Robson and Redpath / by J. B.
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The sequestration cases : before the Hon. A.G. Magrath : report of cases under the Sequestration Act of the Confederate States, heard in the District Court for the state of South Carolina, in the city of Charleston--October term, 1861 : arguments of Wm. Whaley, Nelson Mitchell, C. Richardson Miles, J.L. Petigru, I.W. Hayne, J.W. Wilkinson, and Ed. McCrady, esqrs. ; to which is added the opinion of Judge Magrath, in the several cases ; and the Sequestration Act of the Confederate States ; also, the Confiscation Act of the United States ; reported by J. Woodruff.
(1861)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
([1847?])
Trial, sentence, and execution of Israel Thayer, Jr. Isaac Thayer, and Nelson Thayer, three brothers, : for the murder of John Love, at the town of Boston, in the county of Erie, and state of New-York, on the 17th June. : With all the particulars, arguments of counsel, charge of the judge, the sentence, their execution, and their conduct on the awful occasion. / Collected from authentic documents.
(1825)
Trial of Benjamin Shaw, John Alley Junior, Jonathan Buffum, and Preserved Sprague, for riots and disturbance of public worship, in the society of Quakers, at Lynn, Massachusetts, before the Court of Common Pleas, held at Ipswich, Massachusetts, March 16th
(1822)
Trial of Benjamin Shaw, John Alley Junior, Jonathan Buffum, and Preserved Sprague, for riots and disturbance of public worship, in the society of Quakers, at Lynn, Massachusetts, before the Court of Common Pleas, held at Ipswich, Massachusetts, March 16th
(1822)
The Trial of Weeping Billy, for the wilful murder of Ann Webb : also, the trials of William Duncan, for the wilful murder of W. Chivers, Esq., John Maycock and John Pope, for the wilful murder of A.M. Pooley, at Horsleydown, and John Augustus, for the wilful murder of his shipmate, Peter Williams.
(1807)
The trials of the twelve traitors W. Cundell, C. Parker, J. Tweedle, Charles Bird, John Quigley, John Smith, G. Armstrong, S. M'Farlane, J. Teaster, James Fibbs, Philip Lethay, Noah Francis for high treason : charged with being found in arms, in French uniform, fighting against their king and country, in the Isle of France, and other traiterous acts, before a Special Commission, at the Sessions House, Newington, Monday, Feb. 10, and following days : including the interesting charge to the grand jury, the speeches of the counsellors, and the affecting address of the Lord Chief Baron in passing the awful sentences
(1812)
The truly remarkable life of the beautiful Helen Jewett, who was so mysteriously murdered. The strangest and most exciting case known in the police annals of crimes and mysteries in the great city of New York.
([1878?])
The Tryals of such persons as under the notion of London - apprentices were tumultuously assembled in Moore-Fields, and other places, on Easter holidays last, under the colour of pulling down Bawdy-houses.
(1668)
The Veiled lady, or, The mysterious witness in the McFarland trial : her confession, her history. Also, the sad history of her lovely but unfortunate cousin; startling disclosures of certain persons in high life.
([1870?])
A Vindication and defense of the German Reformed Church, in the city of New-York, and its pastor : against the repeated attacks made upon them by certain members of the classis of New York.
(1851)
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