A confession of the awful and bloody transactions in the life of Charles Wallace the fiend-like murderer of Miss Mary Rogers, the beautiful cigar-girl of Broadway, New York ... together with an authentic statement of the many burglaries and murders of Wallace, and the notorious and daring thief, Snelling: and an account of the murder and robbery of Mr. Parks, of Newport, Kentucky, also perpetrated by Wallace; a thrilling narrative of his intercourse with the brown murderess, Emeline Morere, who, at his instigation, assassinated her master and mistress, and their four helpless children, with an axe. For which atrocious act they were burned alive by a mob of infuiated lynchers on the banks of the Mississippi, on the 11th day of August 1850. From his own memoranda, given at the burning stake, to the Rev. Henry Tracy
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"Preface" signed: Henry Tracey; Conclusion signed: Henry Tracy.
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Tracy, Henry
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- Biography
- Criminals
- Last Words
- Lynching
- Morere, Emeline, 1850
- Murderers
- Rogers, Mary
- Wallace, Charles, 1850
- Women
- Women Murderers