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January 18, 1879

THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, St. Louis, Jan. 18, 1879  Page 2 includes: "A Bloody Tragedy" "Man Fatally Shot by the Paramour of His Wife" as well as: "The Commodore And His Kin" "Skeletons in the Closets of the Vanderbilt Family" which takes over half a column.
Page 3 has: "A Noted Desperado" "Dutch Charley, Once a Well-Known Character in the Northwest--Brief History of the Man Who, With the Assistance of a Rope, Graced a Telegraph Pole".  His name was Charlie Burris.
Eight pages, nice condition.

Category: Post-Civil War