THE STILLWELL MURDER OR A SOCIETY CRIME.
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 husband. Both were tried and acquitted, and the murder was never solved. Laid in is a partially printed document from the United States copyright office, with its blindstamp, completed in manuscript for this title, stating a copy was deposited, as required, on the 17th of May, 1907. Smith's American Fiction, 1901-1925 D-201. OCLC locates four copies (Clements, Kansas City Public, Missouri Hist. Museum, Truman State). Original black lettered red cloth. Item #61108
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