HUNTER-ARMSTRONG TRAGEDY. THE GREAT TRIAL. CONVICTION OF BENJ. F. HUNTER, FOR THE MURDER OF JOHN M. ARMSTRONG. HUNTER SECURES INSURANCE POLICIES ON THELIFE OF ARMSTRONG AMOUNTING TO $26,000, AND LAYS A PLOT TO MURDER HIM. HIS TOOL, TOM GRAHAM, WEAKENS AFTER STRIKING THE FIRST BLOW, AND THE CHIEF INSTIGATOR FINISHES THE AWFUL WORK. THIS BOOK CONTAINS THE ONLY LIKENESSES OF HUNTER, GRAHAM, AND ARMSTRONG.
Philadelphia: Barclay & Company, 1878. Original printed and illustrated front wrapper [lightly spotted and worn; rear wrapper absent]. Stitched. [2], 19-91, [3- publ. advts] pp. Stitched. Illustrations. Good+. A typically lurid Barclay production. "Hunter had lost $7,000 when he invested in Armstrong's music-publishing company. Thinking to turn his loss into..... More