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The murderer's cave, or, The punishment of wickedness : exemplified in the history of Jacob Jenkins, a notorious robber and murderer who lived for five years in a cave in one of the forests of Virginia .../ carefully compiled from an authentic source by Wm. Wadsworth.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wadsworth, William.
Series:
Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 46668.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jenkins, Jacob, approximately 1770-.
Jenkins, Jacob.
Crime--Virginia--Biography.
Crime.
Virginia.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
24 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations
Other Title:
Murderer's cave.
Punishment of wickedness.
Place of Publication:
Boston : Printed for N. Coverly, 1818.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Notes:
Preface signed: W. Wadsworth, Petersburg (Virginia) July 7, 1818.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 46668).
Access Restriction:
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