A History of Wesley Walker's Crime: The Murder of Lizzie Peak
(New Jersey)
Mount Holly, NJ: 1894. Reissue Illustrated stiff wrappers, 26 pps.. Illustrated. 1970 reprint of the exceedingly rare original 1894 edition. Intersetingly, this reprint is nearly as scarce, with only six copies located, all in New Jersey institutions. Sensational account of a notorious murder case which took place in Mount Holly, New Jersey. The victim was a woman of questionable character from a family of equally questionable characters. The killer was a drifter who had set up a food stand at the Mount Holly Fair where he met Lizzie. It all came to a bad end with Lizzie stabbed to death and Warner executed for the crime. A clean, fine copy. Softcovers (Item ID: E1153B)
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