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Lot 631

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Estimate
$200 - 300
Price Realized
$219
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[CRIME & PUNISHMENT]. $2000 Reward. Fultonville, NY: Horton's Print, 19 January 1866. 


11 15/16 x 18 1/8 in. printed broadside (short marginal tears with repairs, creasing); framed to 15 5/8 x 21 1/8 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by B.R. Hudon. 

A reward broadside for recovery of stolen property and apprehension of the robbers. B.R. Hudson recounts that "on the evening of the 18th instant, 4 men, in disguise, effected an entrance...by knocking at the door and then seizing the person who opened it, and forcibly plundered and robbed the house." The list of stolen property included several bonds, a gold watch, a gold pencil, one diamond ring, several pieces of jewelry, and $170 in bank bills. 


Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents

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