THE STILLWELL MURDER OR A SOCIETY CRIME

by Minnie T. Dawson

$600 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Hannibal, MO: for the author? Press of McMein Printing Co., Quincy, IL, 1908. First edition. 8vo. 154 pp. Frontispiece portrait, and five illustrations from line drawings. A retelling of the death of Amos J. Stillwell 1828-1888 who was murdered with an axe. This fictionalized record of a society murder in Hannibal involved reports that Stillwell's wife conspired with Joseph Carter Hearne, a local surgeon with whom she had fallen in love, to murder her

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