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(CRIME.) Tracy, Henry; editor. A Confession of the Awful and Bloody Transactions in the Life of Charles Wallace,
(CRIME.) Tracy, Henry; editor. A Confession of the Awful and Bloody Transactions in the Life of Charles Wallace, the Fiend-Like Murderer of Miss Mary Rogers. 4 full-page wood engravings. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, somewhat worn and foxed; large section of leaf 3-1 torn away. New Orleans, 1851
- Notes: The famous Mary Rogers case was used by Edgar Allen Poe as the basis for his Mystery of Marie Roget. This sensationalistic account, presented as the killer''s own narrative, describes the murder of a cigar girl in New York and the cross-country crime spree that followed. Includes Wallace''s boast of vandalizing Joseph Smith''s Mormon temple at Nauvoo, adding that "We were very much tempted to murder him for the sole benefit of mankind" (page 21). "Extremely rare"--Adams, Six-Guns 2232. Flake Mormon supplement 9537b; Moses, Lynching and Vigilantism, 376. Not in McDade''s Annals of Murder.
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