The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy Being a History of a Strange Case of Deception and Murder, Including the Great Life Insurance Case, and the Trial of William E. Udderzook for the Murder of W. S. Goss.

  • Baltimore: Baltimore Gazette Printers, 1873

octavo, 59 pp., printed in double column format, lacks frontispiece portrait and wrappers, ex-library, bound in later plain gray cloth, red leather spine label, handstamp on title-page, shelf label on spine, else a good copy. McDade, Annals of Murder 1012

Udderzook and Goss conspired to collect the life insurance money after faking the death of Goss. Later Udderzook murdered Goss, was tried condemned and executed for the crime.

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Title

The Goss-Udderzook Tragedy Being a History of a Strange Case of Deception and Murder, Including the Great Life Insurance Case, and the Trial of William E. Udderzook for the Murder of W. S. Goss.

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Publisher

Baltimore Gazette Printers: Baltimore

Date

1873


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