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ENTERTAINING, Moral, and Religious Repository; Containing, Upwards

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Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc.
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ENTERTAINING, Moral, and Religious Repository; Containing, Upwards
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Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
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1799. THE ENTERTAINING, Moral, and Religious Repository; Containing, Upwards of Three Score Separate Performances, all of which are Written in a Simple yet Pleasing Stile, and are Eminently Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of the Youth of Both Sexes. New York: By George Forman, for Cornelius Davis, 1799. [2], 396 p. Contemporary sheep, with a lovely red morocco owner's label on the front cover, "I. VanLiew | 1801." Small piece torn from top margin of H1 costing several letters in running head, moderate foxing, else a very good, tight copy. In 1798 Elizabethtown's Shepard Kollock printed the Entertaining, Moral, and Religious Repository for New York publisher Cornelius Davis. The work--in two volumes but with each volume complete in itself--is a collection of about fifty moralistic tales and includes the first appearance in America of a number of the Cheap Repository tracts of Hannah More and others. The work sold well, and by 1799 Davis needed additional copies to keep the market supplied. New York printer George Forman reprinted volume 1, while Kollock continued to supply volume 2 until he, too, needed to reprint. Evans 35297; Welch, American Children's Books, 361.5; ESTC W31909.
Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth G. Wharton, On the Charge of Poisoning General W.S. Ketchum: Tried at Annapolis, Md., December, 1871–January, 1872

Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth G. Wharton, On the Charge of Poisoning General W.S. Ketchum: Tried at Annapolis, Md., December, 1871–January, 1872

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Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth G. Wharton, On the Charge of Poisoning General W.S. Ketchum: Tried at Annapolis, Md., December, 1871–January, 1872
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James Arsenault & Company (United States)
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[Baltimore, MD] : Reported and published by the Baltimore Gazette, [1872] J.C.. Sm 4to (9.25” x 6.25”), printed wrappers, advertisement on rear wrapper. 172 pp. CONDITION: Good, paper at spine mostly perished, wrapper reattached, paper tape repair on inside of front wrapper partially obscuring the illustration in an ad for Howard House, Baltimore; lower margin and fore-edge of rear wrapper trimmed off (no effect on printed area), contents clean. An account of the trial of the notorious Elizabeth Wharton of Baltimore for the murder of W. S. Ketchum. A socially prominent woman who went on a poisoning spree and was dubbed “the Baltimore Borgia” by the New York Sun, Wharton kiled not only Ketchum, but her husband, her son, and likely others. General W. S. Ketchum traveled to Baltimore on Saturday, June 24th, 1871, to visit the widow of his old friend, Colonel Henry W. Wharton, before she left on a trip abroad. Ketchum sought to recover from the widow her husband’s debt of $2,600 plus interest. Following his dinner with Wharton, Ketchum became seriously ill. While feeling better the next day, he was sick again later that night. He died in convulsions a few days later. The state of Maryland determined that he had been poisoned with antimony (tartar emetic) and Mrs. Wharton was charged with murder (investigators determined that Wharton had purchased sixty grains of tartar emetic on June 26th). The trial lasted some 42 days and included the testimonies of up to forty professionals in medicine and chemistry, a proverbial “battle of the experts.” Wharton was acquitted; however, the jury was unaware at the time of the unexpected death of the widow's son the prior year (she collected on his insurance policies), as well as the deaths of her husband, two cousins, and perhaps others. In fact, a financial adviser to Mrs. Wharton, Eugene Van Ness, had nearly died in her house just before General Ketchum arrived after drinking a beer Wharton told him contained a few drops of gentian to aid digestion.  In the trial transcribed here, the prosecution puts forth a wealth of contradictory medical evidence and seeks to demonstrate Mrs. Wharton’s financial debt to General Ketchum. The defense contended that General Ketchum had expired of natural causes (suicide, a fall from a horse, and spinal meningitis were variously proposed). The many deaths the general public fervently believed Wharton caused remain shrouded in mystery.  REFERENCES: McDade 1076. 

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