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Narrative of the life, trial, confession, sentence of death, and execution, of Ebenezer W. Cox, who was executed at Charlestown, Jefferson County, Va. August 27th, 1830 for the murder of Col. Th. B. Dunn, United States' superintendent at Harper's Ferry, January 29th, 1830 : to which is now added the appeal of Daniel Stipes, one of the parties accused : likewise, a melancholy account of the murder of Thos. Griffin Thornton, late sheriff of Caroline County, Va., perpetrated by Charles Young / selected and composed by Gabriel Nourse.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cox, Ebenezer W., 1808-1830--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Cox, Ebenezer W.
- Young, Charles, -1830--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Young, Charles.
- Young, Charles, -1830.
- Cox, Ebenezer W., 1808-1830.
- Trials (Murder)--Virginia.
- Trials (Murder).
- Murder--Biography.
- Murder.
- Virginia.
- Genre:
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Biographies.
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 pages).
- Manufacture:
- Winchester : Samuel H. Davis, printer, 1830.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1830]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- "The case of Ebenezer Cox ... came up for trial on Tuesday 20th July, in the superior court of law for Jefferson county": page 10.
- "The whole interspersed with such moral and religious reflections as are calculated, not to familiarize the reader with scenes of blood, but like a friendly landsman in view of a coasting mariner, to raise above the rocks with warning beacon."
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 937014732
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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