AN ACCOUNT OF THE ARREST, TRIAL, CONVICTION AND CONFESSION OF JABEZ BOYD, FOR THE MURDER OF WESLEY PATTON. BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins, Printers, 1845. 15, pp. Stitched and lightly foxed, some pencil l...

1845 · Philadelphia

by [Boyd, Jabez]
Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins, Printers, 1845. 15, [1 blank] pp. Stitched and lightly foxed, some pencil linings in margins. Good+.

"The victim was beaten to death at Westchester, Pennsylvania, while being robbed. Boyd was arrested in church 'with a hymn book in his hand, and from which he was singing with apparent composure.' He was hanged" [McDade]. The pamphlet's author says Boyd "was brought up in ignorance, and surrounded by depraved companions." From his youth he "exhibited a cruel disposition, and a manifest delight in tormenting and witnessing the sufferings of others, and more especially those of dumb animals." Conceiving (truncated)
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