Life and bloody career of the executed criminal, James Copeland, the great Southern land pirate
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- LIFE AND BLOODY CAREER OF THE EXECUTED CRIMINAL, JAMES COPELAND, THE GREAT SOUTHERN LAND PIRATE
- MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.
- INTRODUCTION.
- PREFACE.
- LIFE AND CAREER OF JAMES COPELAND, THE SOUTHERN LAND PIRATE, AND HIS INTIMATE ASSOCIATES,
- POISONING THE OVERSEER.
- MURDER OF THE TWO MEXICANS IN TEXAS.
- WELTER AND HARDEN’S DECEPTION—WELTER ACTING AS UNITED STATES MARSHAL.
- WAGES’ AND HARDEN’S PLOT TO KILL ROBERT LOTT AND THOMAS SUMRALL.
- MR. MOORE AFTER PREACHER M’GRATH, IN TEXAS.
- M’GRATH IN DISGUISE.
- MURDER OF O’CONNOR ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
- MEETING OF THE CLAN IN MOBILE, ALABAMA.
- BURNING OF ELI MAFFITT’S HOUSE, AND ATTEMPTED MURDER OF HIS WIFE.
- WAGES AND M’GRATH KILLED BY HARVEY.
- REWARD OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS OFFERED FOR HARVEY’S SCALP.
- PRESENTIMENT OF POOL’S DEATH.
- THE FAMOUS HARVEY BATTLE.
- TRIAL OF JAMES COPELAND.
- THE DEATH WARRANT.
- THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
- THE EXECUTION.
- GRAND JURY.
- WITNESSES.
- MEMBERS OF THE COPELAND AND WAGES CLAN.
- LETTER OF JAMES COPELAND TO HIS MOTHER.
- MYSTIC ALPHABET
- APPENDIX.
- S. S. SHOEMAKE, THE ARCH-MONSTER OF ATROCITY AND THE PERFECTION OF DECEPTION, WITH HIS JOHN R. GARLAND LETTER.
- SHOEMAKE VISITS THE SHERIFF IN PERSON WITH HIS BOGUS AUTHORITY FROM THE PROBATE JUDGE OF KEMPER COUNTY.
- SHOEMAKE RETURNS WITH A WRIT FOR THE SHERIFF’S ARREST.
- SHOEMAKE’S OBJECT WAS ASSASSINATION.
- IMPORTANT INFORMATION GATHERED ABOUT THE BURIED TREASURE.
- PRELIMINARY REMARKS TOUCHING THE TRIAL.
- THE RECORDS OF THE TRIAL FROM THE CITY COURT OF MOBILE.
- COMMENTS ON THE RECORDS.
- SHOEMAKE AND B. TAYLOR IN COURT.
- M’LAMORE FELL A VICTIM TO THE VENGEANCE OF THE CLAN.
- G. Y. OVERALL PROVES AN ALIBI
- THE ARGUMENTS FROM BOTH SIDES.
- THE COURT AND THE JURY.
- TAMPERING WITH THE JURY.
- SYMPATHY AND REGRET AS EXPRESSED BY SEVERAL JURORS.
- FAILURE OF PETITION—RECEIVES THE KINDEST TREATMENT WHILE IN PRISON.
- THE CLAN GROVELLINGLY PENETRATES PRIVATE TRANSACTIONS.
- MISS BOWEN’S LETTER.
- DR. BEVELL’S LETTER TO MISS BOWDEN.
- MISS BOWEN’S REPLY TO DR. BEVELL’S LETTER.
- AN EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF THE DEFENDANT BEFORE THE COMMITTEE.
- A LETTER FROM A FRIEND IN TEXAS AFTER DEFENDANT’S RELEASE.
- A LETTER TAKEN FROM THE “TRUE DEMOCRAT.”
- THE CHARACTER OF THE PROSECUTOR.
- THE CHARACTER OF THE PROSECUTION.
- CONCLUDING SKETCH OF THE TRIAL.
- ANOTHER DESIGN OF ASSASSINATION.
- SHOEMAKE AGAIN.
- THE TWO HARDENS AND THE MURDER OF SHERIFF SMITH.
- JAMES M’ARTHUR, OR “CALICO DICK.”
- REFLECTIONS ON THE FOREGOING, AND ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF INABILITY TO REPRESS SUCH FLAGRANT AND WELL KNOWN CRIMES.
- THE HORRID MURDER OF W. C. STANLEY AT ESCATAWPA.
- MORE ABOUT FROST, “CALICO DICK’S” NEPHEW.
- NECESSARY COMMENTS ON UNPUNISHED CRIME.
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