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(CRIME.) De Witt's "Special Report." Trial of the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles for Shooting Philip Barton Key, Esq.
8 plates. 8vo, disbound; foxing, tear to terminal leaf. New York, (1859)
- Notes: "A murder in one's past is generally considered an impediment to a career, and one might think this would be particularly so if the victim were the district attorney. Sickles, a congressman from New York who shot and killed the son of the author of our national anthem, may have had his advanced by it... Sickles was acquitted for shooting his wife's lover on the streets of Washington. Thereafter he became a general in the Civil War, lost a leg at Gettysburg, and went on to be ambassador to Spain"--McDade 871 (quoted from McDade 869).
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