The History of Virgil A. Stewart: And His Adventure in Capturing and Exposing the Great "western Land Pirate" and His Gang, in Connexion with the Evidence; Also of the Trials, Confessions, and Execution of a Number of Murrell's Associates in the State of Mississippi During the Summer of 1835, and the Execution of Five Professional Gamblers by the Citizens of Vicksburg, on the 6th July, 1835Harper & Brothers, 1836 - 273 páginas |
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... proceeded after the following manner : - Murrell . " I was born in middle Tennessee . My parents had not much property , but they were intelli- gent people ; and my father was an honest man I ex- pect , and tried to raise me honest ...
... proceeded after the following manner : - Murrell . " I was born in middle Tennessee . My parents had not much property , but they were intelli- gent people ; and my father was an honest man I ex- pect , and tried to raise me honest ...
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... proceeded but a few hundred yards when Hues paused , and remarked to his companion that he had left his gloves at the house of their late landlord , and that the weather was so very cold he could not conve- niently dispense with their ...
... proceeded but a few hundred yards when Hues paused , and remarked to his companion that he had left his gloves at the house of their late landlord , and that the weather was so very cold he could not conve- niently dispense with their ...
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... proceeded to close the bargain , so far as they could , till delivery was made of the negroes . This was more than Hues could suf- fer to pass unnoticed : he sought , as early as practica- ble , a private conversation with Mr. Erwin ...
... proceeded to close the bargain , so far as they could , till delivery was made of the negroes . This was more than Hues could suf- fer to pass unnoticed : he sought , as early as practica- ble , a private conversation with Mr. Erwin ...
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... proceeded to record a more enlarged account of what he had heard on the scraps from the blank - book , which , as they were filled and numbered , were successively de- posited with care in the crown of his cap , through a hole which he ...
... proceeded to record a more enlarged account of what he had heard on the scraps from the blank - book , which , as they were filled and numbered , were successively de- posited with care in the crown of his cap , through a hole which he ...
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... , to make an effort at crossing , though at great hazard . They had proceeded but a few hundred yards from shore when they became convinced that their apprehensions were by no means unfounded . Their boat very soon 84 STEWART'S LIFE.
... , to make an effort at crossing , though at great hazard . They had proceeded but a few hundred yards from shore when they became convinced that their apprehensions were by no means unfounded . Their boat very soon 84 STEWART'S LIFE.
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