TRIAL, LIFE AND CONFESSION OF AMOS MINER, WHO WAS EXECUTED ON FRIDAY, DEC. 27, 1833, FOR THE MURDER OF JOHN SMITH, ESQ. LATE TOWN-SERGEANT OF FOSTER. WITH HIS SPEECH UNDER THE GALLOWS. ALSO, THE TRIAL AND SENTENCE OF CHARLES BROWN, FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY. [ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING WORKS OF THE KIND.]
Published by Published by Request, Providence, 1834
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Seller: David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.David M. Lesser, ABAA
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36pp. Untrimmed, uncut. Toned with scattered foxing. Good+. "Miner was a cantankerous character who traveled about in a wagon with his family. Process servers tried to recover some goods he had bought but had not paid for and he struck one of them with an ax and killed him" [McDade 685]. Two pamphlets were printed in 1833, before Miner's execution. This is the only one describing his death and his "dying declaration" at the gallows. He says he killed in a fit of passion and, "If I was a Mason my life would be spared." The pamphlet tells the story of Miner's life, some of it evidently written by Miner himself. S.S. Southworth of the Providence City Gazette, who compiled the pamphlet, details some of Miner's "defalcations and immoralities" and "unrestricted and vindictive passions." McDade 687. Cohen 12887. II Harv. Law Cat. 1145. AI 26887 [4].
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- TRIAL, LIFE AND CONFESSION OF AMOS MINER, WHO WAS EXECUTED ON FRIDAY, DEC. 27, 1833, FOR THE MURDER OF JOHN SMITH, ESQ. LATE TOWN-SERGEANT OF FOSTER. WITH HIS SPEECH UNDER THE GALLOWS. ALSO, THE TRIAL AND SENTENCE OF CHARLES BROWN, FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY. [ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING WORKS OF THE KIND.]
- Author
- [Miner, Amos]
- Publisher
- Published by Request, Providence
- Publication year
- 1834
- Seller catalogs
- AMERICANA, LAW, MASONS
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