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Trial, conviction & sentence of Richard Johnson, who was executed on the 7th of May, 1829 : together with Gov. Throop's letter, to the sheriff of New-York.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Richard, -1829--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Johnson, Richard.
- Newman, Ursula, -1828--Death and burial.
- Newman, Ursula.
- Newman, Ursula, -1828.
- Johnson, Richard, -1829.
- Murder--New York (State)--New York.
- Murder.
- Executions and executioners.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Trials (Murder)--New York (State)--New York.
- Trials (Murder).
- Executions and executioners--New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (20 pages) : illustrations.
- Manufacture:
- New York : printed and sold wholesale and retail, by Christian Brown, [1829]
- Other Title:
- Trial, conviction and sentence of Richard Johnson, who was executed on the seventh of May, 1829
- Correct copy of the trial and sentence of Richard Johnson, for the murder of Ursula Newman, on the 20th Nov. 1828, by shooting her with a pistol loaded with buck shot or slugs, nine of which entered her body : together with the charge of the court, and the confession of the prisoner of his intention to have added suicide to the horrid and appalling murder for which he is to suffer an ignominious death, and his letter to a friend in Philadelphia previous to his conviction
- Correct copy of the trial and sentence of Richard Johnson.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1829]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Johnson's letter to James L. Dougherty is printed on the verso of the second title page.
- With a woodcut illustration of the execution on first title page and a woodcut of the murder on second title page.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- Local Notes:
- Scanned copy defective: pages 17-19 wanting.
- OCLC:
- 937021063
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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