Life, Confession, And Letters of Courtship of Rev. Jacob S. Harden, Of the M.E. Church, Mount Lebanon, Hunterdon Co., N.J. Executed for the Murder of His Wife, On the 6th of July, 1860, At Belvidere, Warren Co., N.J.
1860. · Hackettstown, Warren Co., NJ:
by [Harden, Jacob S.]
Pamphlet, 8vo, original printed wrappers, with woodcut portrait, 48 pp. Some soiling and staining to wrappers and preliminaries and last few pages, spine and edgewear, a few minor chips, normal aging to contents; otherwise good to about very good. According to McDade, "the Reverend [Jacob S. Harden] poisoned his wife with arsenic after a fortuneteller had told him that she would not live long." A New York Times article at the time indicated she was dead five months after the marriage. However, McDade reports that the mother-in-law was to blame for the crime, since she hounded him to marry he reluctantly married her daughter. Nevertheless, he took the rap, and was executed on July 6, 1860. McDade Annals of Murder 438. New York Times. (Inventory #: 106041)