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1 Pictorial Life and Adventures of Mrs. Whipple; & Jesse Strang, the Murderer of Mr. Whipple 1848

handle is hein.trials/aann0001 and id is 1 raw text is: MURRELL! HARE! AD TURPIN! SERIES! PICTORIAL LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MRS. WHIPPLE; & JESSE STRANG, THE MURDERER OF MR. WHIPPLE. BY EDITOR 0r THE NEW YORK NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE. AUTHOR OF THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN A. MURRELL, LIFE OF HELEN JEWETT, LIFE OF COLONEL .IONROE EDWARDS, LIVES OF THE FELONS, LIFE OF HENRY THOMAS,- LIFE OF JOSEPH T. HARE, ETC., ETC. FULL OF ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS. At length the bell ceased, and rising from his posture with a sigh, the murderous marksman mechanically turned his attention to the lock of his fowling-piece. While thus engaged, his ear was startled with' a hiss, and turning, he beheld an adder flattening its bead and thrusting forked defiance at him. His reveries were at an end ; a desire for destruction seized possession of his bosom, and raising the butt of his rifle, he struck at the reptile, and with repeated blows beat it into mutilation. This brutal divertisement restored him to his congenial purpose, and lingering no more, he set a pane upon the stump, and placing himself a few yards infront, he fired through and hit the mark. He then doubled the glass and the result was the same, and finally having tried it at an angle with its surface, be considered that he had satisfactorily established the fact that a bullet would not glance from a window. The slugs which had been prepared for his experiment being all spent, be returned home, and secreting his gun, awaited anxiously the opportunity to communicate proceedings to his feline con- federate, etc.-See page 32. I) iI a c I p I) i a: T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, 306 CHESTNUT STREET.

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