THE "CAR-HOOK" TRAGEDY. THE LIFE, TRIAL, CONVICTION AND EXECUTION OF WILLIAM FOSTER FOR THE MURDER OF AVERY D. PUTNAM. GOVERNOR DIX'S LETTERS. NEITHER TEARS, APPEALS FOR EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY FROM THE WIFE OF THE MURDERED MAN, OPINIONS ON THIS INTERESTING CASE FROM PROFOUND JUDGES, LEARNED LAWYERS, EMINENT MINISTERS, AND THE PRESS, NOR POLITICAL INFLUENCE, BACKED BY A MINE OF WEALTH, COULD SAVE FOSTER. THIS WORK IS WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY J. EDWARDS REMAULT, ATTORNEY AT LAW. LIKENESSES AND OTHER ENGRAVINGS.
Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., Publishers, [1873]. Original printed and illustrated salmon wrappers. Stitched. Folded illustration frontis of Foster killing Putnam with a 'car-hook'. [2], 19-96 pp, as issued, with full-page illustrations and two additional folding illustrations. Captions to the illustrations are printed in English and German. Near Fine. McDade's entry..... More