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Pirate Hicks confesses his guilt...
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Pirate Hicks confesses his guilt...

Item # 716632 ·
NEW YORK TIMES, June 6, 1860  The front page has over half a column headed: "The Murders On the Oyster Sloop" "A Partial Confession from Hicks--He Admits His Guilt & Details Some of the Particulars of the Tragedy".
 His name was Albert W. Hicks, aka William Johnson and "Pirate Hicks" & he confessed to murdering his 3 companions & throwing their bodies overboard. He also claimed to have killed 93 others in California gold camps. On July 13 he would die by hanging on Bedloe's Island, now known as Liberty Island with 10,000 people viewing from boats in the harbor. \He was a character in an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1963. He was also the last person executed in the United States for piracy.
The front page also has: "Passage of the Bill Providing for the Return of the Recaptured Africans".
Eight pages, nice condition.
 

Item from our most recent catalog - #369 - released for August, 2026

Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$43
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.