March Arthur Charles (8 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mild wear.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition [stated]. Book Near Fine, Slight Wear At Corners, No Names Or Marks. Dj 1/8" Shorter Than Book, Light Wear With A Few Short Edge Tears And Minute Losses.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. xi, 257 p. Bound in publisher's russet colored cloth-covered boards. Binding square, light wear and faint soiling to corners, spine sunned and rubbed; contents fine. One of 500 copies. 600 grams.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Wanted Poster 270 x 185 mm. In acid free Mylar sleeve. Will be shipped flat between heavy cardboard layers. [Transcription:] CINCINNATI, OHIO, AUGUST 8, 1911. WANTED FOR MURDER! CHARLES JONES, COLORED. Warrant issued. For the murder of his wife, Bertha Jones, a white woman, on or about July 14, 1911. On this date she disappeared. On August 4, 1911, her body was found in a sewer at Norwood, Ohio. Charles Jones is 38 years of age; black kinky hair; dark brown complexion; 165 pounds; well-built; eyes maroon; 5 feet 9 inches. He has a scar at the first joint of left middle finger rear near the hand; a small irregular scar at the third phalange of right middle finger front; a vertical scar one inch long in upper part of right ear -this scar is very distinct; small scar at top of head a little to the right of middle line. By occupation a coachman and teamster. BERTILLON. [Table containing Bertillon system anthropometric measurements and handwritten notes] Height: 5 ft 9 in / 1 m 75.0 | Head, Lgth: 19.6 | L. Foot: 27.8 | Class: 7 Mar 2? | Age: 32 / 1905 Outs. A: 1 m 74.0 | Width: 15.1 | Mid F: 12.7 | Color of Left Eye: Areola. Periph. Z. | Born in: Mo. Trunk: 93.5 | Cheek Wdth: 14.1 | Lit F: 9.6 | Fore A: 48.4 | R. Ear: 6.5 | Pecul. [Mugshots: Profile and Frontal views, Chest Number 9349] DESCRIPTIVE Incl.: Regd. / Hgth.: 2m. / Width: . / Pecul.: [Handwritten notes] Ridge: Rect / Base: Drop / Root: sm / DIMENSIONS: Length: m / Projection: sm / Breadth: g / Pecul. Teeth, Right Ear: op / 7. E. / Chin: . Beard: - - | Hair: Blk | Complexion: Dk Brown | Weight: 165 | Build: Well Measured at Cincinnati, O., June 16, 1905 by Pfingster REMEASURED His previous criminal record is: July 1, 1905, shooting to kill a police officer of this city; 5 years in the Ohio Penitentiary; May 31, 1910, assault and battery upon a white girl - no prosecution, case dismissed. A liberal reward will be paid for the arrest of this party. WM. H. JACKSON, Chief of Police, Cincinnati, Ohio." An important historical broadside of early 20th-century American law enforcement, race relations, and forensic science, The Bertillon System. It deals with high-profile gruesome capital murder cases and a sensational cross-border backdrop. It highlights the high-profile media and police response to an interracial marriage ending in homicide during an era of profound racism. Jones was born in Missouri c. 1873, moved to Cincinnati, worked as coachman and teamster (a driver of horse-drawn wagon teams). In 1905, he shot a Cincinnati police officer and served 5 years in the Ohio Penitentiary. Shortly after his release, on May 31, 1910, he was arrested for assault and battery of a local white woman. The case was dismissed without prosecution. He married Bertha Courtney (referred to in local records as Bertha Jones). On July 14, 1911, Bertha disappeared. On August 4, her decapitated body was discovered in a sewer line in Norwood, Ohio. Police Chief William H. Jackson released this circular on August 8, 1911. Investigators theorized that Jones was a serial killer, connecting him to other local homicides, including the death of an associate, black man named Charles Johnson, who helped Bertha leave Jones. After the discovery of Bertha's body Jones fled to Canada, using the alias "William Campbell" in Montreal. There, in August 1913, Jones (now Campbell) slit the throat of George Muir, the ex-boyfriend of his new girlfriend, Lillie Jackson. He was arrested by Canadian authorities. He was arrested in Montreal for Muir's murder. Ohio never extradited him for Bertha's murder because Canada hanged him on Jan.24, 1914 for George Muir's homicide. The execution drew such chaotic crowds that Canada banned the general public from witnessing future prison executions. See The Woman in the Sewer - on YouTube. The media coverage of the murders and manhunt drew national attention, including The New York Times, with emphasis of the marriage being interracial. decapitating the man, and on March 28, 1935, at Montreal's Bordeaux Prison, the same facility where Charles Jones had been hanged 21 years prior, Tomasina Sarao was hanged along with two accomplices for a murder-for-insurance plot, she was decapitated. (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original raspberry cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 219 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece. Authors first book. Age tanning to the page edges. Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with horizontal tear across the front cover, 20 mm piece of paper missing across the top of the spine, not price clipped 10s 6d. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SCIENCE FICTION.…

First edition hard back binding in contemporary full diced brown leather, raised bands to the spine with gilt titles on three faded labels, all page edges gilt, marble end leaves. 8vo. 8½'' x 5¼''. Contains [iv] 288 [including index] printed pages of text. Ink name and pencil numbers to the second front free end paper, very light foxing, from the private library of Thomas Godwin Campbell Reynolds with his coat of arms bookplate to the front paste down. In April 1809 Charles Stewart was made Adjutant General to Sir Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) with the British forces fighting in the Peninsular War, a post in which he distinguished himself, particularly at the battles of Busaco and Talavera. He received the thanks of Parliament in 1810, and on 20 November 1813 was made Colonel of the 25th Light Dragoons, becoming a Knight of the Bath that same year. Until the end of the war he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, and was also Military Commissioner with the allied armies, being wounded at the Battle of Kulm. Through his daughter Lady Frances, Lord Londonderry was the great-grandfather of Winston Churchill. SIGNED by Charles Stewart to the verso of the title page 'For the use of the Brigade Major attached to the 1st Brigade of Cavalry, Charles Stewart, August 1809.' Ron McGuigan: 'I have never come across the numbering of the cavalry brigades before, only by commanders's names. The following three officers were Brigade-Majors to the cavalry in 1809 including August: Captain John Mahony 14th Light Dragoons, B-M to S. Cotton (Challis lists as 2nd Brigade?), Captain George Holmes 3rd Dragoon Guards, B-M to H. Fane (Challis lists as 1st Brigade?), Captain William Serle 24th Foot, B-M to J. Erskine (no number)'. A special thank you to author Ron McGuigan, [co-author of 'Inside Wellington's Peninsular Army 1808-1814'], for supplying and helping with the above information. Member of the P.B.F.A. WELLINGTON, Duke of (1769-1852).…