The life, trial, confession and execution of Albert W. Hicks, the pirate and murderer : executed on Bedloe's Island, New York Bay, on the 13th of July, 1860, for the murder of Capt. Burr, Smith and Oliver Watts on board the oyster sloop E. A. Johnson : containing the history of his life from childhood up to the time of his arrest / (written by himself) ; with a full account of his piracies, murders, mutinies, high-way robberies, etc., comprising the particulars of one hundred murders! ; to which is added the account of his arrest, imprisonment, trial and execution ; also, his phrenological character, as described by L.N. Fowler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hicks, Albert W., ca. 1820-1860.

Contributor:

United States. Circuit Court (New York : Southern District)

De Angelis, Lorenzo, fl. 1860.

Fowler, L. N. (Lorenzo Niles), 1811-1896.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trials (Piracy)--New York (State)--New York.

Trials (Piracy).

Edwin A. Johnson (Sloop).

Hicks, Albert W., ca. 1820-1860--Trials, litigation, etc.

Hicks, Albert W.

Burr, George H., 1821?-1860.

Burr, George H.

Watts, Oliver, d. 1860.

Watts, Oliver.

Watts, Smith, d. 1860.

Watts, Smith.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (84 p., [8] leaves of plates ) ill., ports. ;

Other Title:

Life, trial, confession and execution of Albert W. Hicks, the pirate and murderer

Trial and confession of Albert W. Hicks.

Place of Publication:

New York : R.M. De Witt, [1860]

Notes:

Trial in U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, commencing May 18, 1860, for piracy.

"The Confession [p. 39-66] was made ... to me and Mr. G.W. Clackner, he writing down the statement ... [with corrections]"--letter to New York times, July 12, 1860, signed: Lorenzo De Angelis.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Sabin no. 31709.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG04-B565

OCLC:

85800958