THE LIFE, CONFESSION, AND ATROCIOUS CRIMES OF ANTOINE PROBST, THE MURDERER OF THE DEERING FAMILY. TO WHICH IS ADDED A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF MANY OF THE MOST HORRIBLE AND MYSTERIOUS MURDERS COMMITTED IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES

[Probst, Anton]

Published by Barclay & Co, Philadelphia, 1866

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Original printed and illustrated purple wrappers. Stitched. Plate frontis ['Farm Scene of the Murder']. [34]-109 pp [as issued]. Portrait of Probst on front wrapper; "The Murderer Concealing His Bloody Work" on rear wrap. Twelve additional full page illustrations of the murders and their aftermath. Three spots on title page [no text obscured]. Very Good. An enjoyably lurid Barclay production. A mass murderer, Probst killed a family of six, "plus a hired boy and woman guest [who] were brutally hacked to death by him. He was a hired man who had been discharged and then taken back. After his execution the doctors had a field day with his cadaver" [McDade]. FIRST EDITION. McDade 773. Not in Harv. Law Cat., Marke.

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THE LIFE, CONFESSION, AND ATROCIOUS CRIMES OF ANTOINE PROBST, THE MURDERER OF THE DEERING FAMILY. TO WHICH IS ADDED A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF MANY OF THE MOST HORRIBLE AND MYSTERIOUS MURDERS COMMITTED IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES

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1866

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