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The touching history of Rosina Jones, the cottage maid, whose sufferings by poverty and cold, while outcast from her father's dwelling is unparalelled in the annals of destitntion : to which is added a distinct and vivid statement of Stephen Dorsey, her betrayer and the murderer of her child, perpetrated in the woods near Kinderhook, N.Y. : also containing a glowing account of the pathetic interview with her father who refusing her shelter, she was frozen to death beside the cottage door on the night of the dreadful snow storm, Feb. 20th 1854.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Wilmot G., Rev, author.
- Series:
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jones, Rosina.
- Dorsey, R. Stephen.
- Murder--New York (State)--Kinderhook.
- Murder.
- Fathers and daughters--New York (State)--Kinderhook.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Death--New York (State).
- Death.
- New York (State).
- New York (State)--Kinderhook.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (pages 15-49, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : J. Merone and Company, 1854.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Illustrated cover.
- Two columns to the page.
- Error in title, "destitntion" should read 'destitution'.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 937020141
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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