The terrible and all absorbing narrative and confession of Edwin Winters : with an authentic statement of the horrible assassination of Miss Eugenia Blakeman, on board a western steamer, together with a correct account of the unfortunate fate of Miss Kate Belmont : to which is added a thrilling account of Winter's fearful conflict with and escape from a band of western desperadoes, who attempted to lynch him on the banks of the Mississippi River : also, the most startling developments, relative to a conspiracy to revolutionize the United States, by a western confederation : with an account of the cruel assassination of their queen in an underground palace in Arkansas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winters, Edwin, 1831- author.

Series:

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Winters, Edwin, 1831-.

Winters, Edwin.

Murder--Fiction.

Murder.

Government, Resistance to, in literature.

Child rearing.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages, pages 9-33, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Thrilling adventures of Edwin Winters and Kate Belmont.

Edwin Weston, and Kate Belmont.

Place of Publication:

New York : H.H. Randall, [1854]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Caption title: Thrilling adventures of Edwin Winters, and Kate Belmont.

Running title: Edwin Weston, and Kate Belmont.

Signed on page 29: Edwin Weston.

According to a note at the foot of page 9, Winters "subsequently changed his name to that of Weston."

Apparently fictitious. None of the "facts" of Edwin Winters' life, that the family resided in Baltimore and that he was a graduate of Yale College, are sustantiated by the city or college directories.

Eastern district of Pennsylvania copyright 1854 by M.L. Barclay. Mary L. Barclay was the wife of publisher E.E. Barclay. Another edition of this title was published at New York by Barclay and Company in 1855.

Henry H. Randall is listed as a publisher at 50 Ann St. in New York City directories for 1855 and 1856.

Imprint on wrapper: New York: Published by Randall and Company 50 Ann Street. The firm name of Randall and Company does not appear in the city directories.

Illustrated leaf between page 26 and 27 not included in pagination; other illustrations, including that on the last page, are included in pagination.

"Concluding remarks," pages 31-33, also signed by Weston, warn of the dangers of over-indulging children and lavishing wealth upon them "without the shield of virtuous training."

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

937020160

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.