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..... More
Verse Account of a Murder-Suicide in Pennsylvania [Broadside]. [Murder-Suicide]. [Pennsylvania]. [Koppelberger, Johannes]. Ein Neues Lied von der Mord-Geschichte des Joseph Miller, Welcher im Januar 1822, Einer Sonntags Nacht Seine Schwangere Frau unde Zwei Kinder auf eine Grausame Art Ermordete, Und sich Selbst Erhing, Welches Alles, Wie man Glaubt, Aus Armuth..... More
A Verse Broadside by a Female Poet About the Sensational Parkman-Webster Murder [Broadside]. [Murder]. Doe, Mary G. [1801-1870]. [Webster, John White (1793-1850)]. Soliloquy of Prof. John W. Webster, After the Murder of Dr. Geo. Parkman up to the Time of His Execution. [N.p: S.n., (1850)]. 12" x 9" (31 x...... More
"Killed by His Own Nephew": The Rare Sensational 1852 Banbury Murder Broadside [Broadside]. [Murder]. Handy, William [1824-1896]. Verses Composed on the Murder of G. Kalabergo. Birmingham: William Pratt, Printer, Digbeth, [1852]. Broadside. 14-3/4" x 10" (37.6 x 25.3 cm). Text in two columns divided by an ornamental typographic rule below..... More
"Oh! Lust, Accursed Lust! 'Twas This for Which I Did the Deed" [Broadside]. [Murder]. 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. 17" x 11-1/2" (43.2 x 29.2 cm) broadside. Two columns of..... More
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..... More
A Murder Broadside Mounted to a Scrapbook Leaf with Images and Other Texts [Broadside]. [Murder]. [White, Joseph (1747 or 1748-1830)]. Murder of Joseph White. The Following Lines Were Written on the Death of Mr. Joseph White, Of Salem, Who was Found Murdered in His Bed on the Morning of the..... More
Murder in the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Sphere: A Rare Provincial Broadside [Broadside]. [Execution]. Wollard, Joseph [d.1832]. The Life, Trial, And Execution of Josh. Wollard, Who Suffered Death on the New Drop at Stafford on Monday Last, For the Wilful Murder He Committed on the Body of His Wife. Litchfield [England]: Thompson..... More
A Contemporary Opinion on a Sensational 1889 Murder by a Female Physician Densmore, Helen. [Maybrick Murder Case]. The Maybrick Case: English Criminal Law. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.; New York: Stillman & Co., [1892]. 148 pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 5"). Stiff textured wrappers, gilt title to front. Some rubbing to..... More
McDade 297: One of the Most Sensational American Trials of the Early 1800s [Trial]. Fairbanks, Jason, Defendant. Report of the Trial of Jason Fairbanks, On an Indictment for the Murder of Miss Elizabeth Fales. At the Supreme Court, Holden at Dedham, in the County of Norfolk, On Thursday the 6th..... More
The Murder of President McKinley's Brother-in-Law: McDade 334 [Murder]. [Albaugh, Thurlow K. (1868-1937)]. George, Annie E. [b.1859]. Saxton, George D. [1848-1898]. Canton's Great Tragedy: The Murder of George D. Saxton, Together with a History of the Arrest and Trial of Annie E. George, Charged with the Murder. With Biographical Sketches..... More
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..... More
Rare Images of Murderer Edward Stokes, His Victim James Fisk, And the Woman Who Drove Him to Murder [Murder]. Fisk, James, Jr. [1835-1872] Stokes, Edward [1841-1901]. Mansfield, Helen Josephine, "Josie" [1847-1931]. [3-1/2" x 2-1/4" Cartes-de-Visite of Fisk, Stokes and Mansfield Mounted on 4" x 2-1/2" Cards]. [New York?, c.1870]. Light..... More
He Killed Him With a Billhook [Murder]. [Italy]. Estratto Degli Inquisizionali Contro Baldassare Zotta Detto Morte, Colpevole del Delitto di Omicidio Proditorio Consumato Nella Persona di Giammaria Zotta Bellotto il Dopo Panzo del 10 Luglio 1822, Redatto a Termini del ?.450 del Codice Penale [Caption Title]. [(Padua): Tip. Molinari, (1823)]..... More
A Murder in Richmond: McDade 711 [Murder]. Myers, William R., Defendant. The Letters and Correspondence of Mrs. Virginia Myers, (Which Have Never Before Been Published or Even Read in Court,) to Dudley Marvin Hoyt, Who was Murdered at Richmond, Sept. 28th, 1846, by Wm. R. Myers, and Two Others. Together..... More
Jealousy, Fraud, Accusations and Murder: McDade 919 [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..... More
"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..... More