Autograph letter, signed, describing a gun fight and murder of a man after he had attempted to sleep with a free mulatto woman in another man's house

by Texas, James C. Whitaker

$600 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

2 pages. On blue paper. 4to. Item #320549 The incident started when Charles H. Peabody, a wealthy jeweler, tried to bed a free mulatto in the house of Miles Husbands and was driven off by Albert Western misidentified as Weston in the letter , his father-in-law. A few days later Peabody returned to confront him, and a fracas ensued. Shots were fired and missed, but Western succeeded after a brief hand fight with a second pistol. After describing

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