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The murdered millionaire, or, The life, career and assassination of Col. James Fisk, Jr., and the great lessons they teach
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The murdered millionaire, or, The life, career and assassination of Col. James Fisk, Jr., and the great lessons they teach / by Wm. Louis Phillips.
Publication
Boston : Horace Partridge, c1872.
Physical Description
32 pages ; 16 cm.
Local Notes
Hicks classification: TrialsB St67P 1872.
Notes
In pictorial wrapper.
Wrapper title.
In a bid for money, Mansfield and Stokes tried to extort Fisk by threatening the publication of letters written by Fisk to Mansfield that allegedly proved Fisk's legal wrongdoings. A legal and public relations battle followed, but Fisk refused to pay Mansfield anything. Increasingly frustrated and flirting with bankruptcy, Stokes confronted Fisk in New York City on January 6, 1872, in the Grand Central Hotel and shot him twice, in the arm and abdomen. A relatively young man of 37, Fisk died of the abdominal wound the next morning after giving a dying declaration identifying Stokes as the killer.--Wikipedia.
Variant and related titles
Life, career and assassination of Col. James Fisk, Jr.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 24, 2017
Subjects
Genre/Form
Illustrated law - Portraits.
Illustrated law - Trials - Murder.
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