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Book History of the Detection  Conviction  Life and Designs of John A  Murrell the Great Western Land Pirate

Download or read book History of the Detection Conviction Life and Designs of John A Murrell the Great Western Land Pirate written by Augustus Q. Walton and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil A. Stewart happened to be in the right place at the right time. In January 1834, he offered to help a friend in Madison County, Tennessee track down two missing slaves who were believed to have been stolen by a local thief named John A. Murrell. Posing as a man looking for a lost horse, Stewart won Murrell's confidence over the course of several days and the thief shared with him stories of his exploits and revealed various criminal acts he had committed, including robbery, slave stealing, and murder. Murrell also admitted to being the leader of a vast criminal empire with one thousand members-some of whom were well-respected men in their communities-known as the Mystic Clan of the Confederacy. He wanted to convince slaves across the South to rise up against their masters on Christmas night in 1835, during which time Murrell and his clan would rob on a grand scale. History of the Detection, Conviction, Life and Designs of John A. Murrel, the Great Western Land Pirate...To Which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Mr. Virgil A. Stewart was first published in 1835, and is the primary source for the life, crimes, and legend of John A. Murrell, a man Stewart labeled "the great Western Land Pirate." Stewart transformed a petty thief from Denmark, Tennessee into a criminal mastermind with a network of like-minded rogues that stretched across the Old Southwest.

Book A History of the Detection  Conviction  Life and Designs of John A  Murel  i e  Murrell   the Great Western Land Pirate

Download or read book A History of the Detection Conviction Life and Designs of John A Murel i e Murrell the Great Western Land Pirate written by Augustus Q. Walton and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book HIST OF THE DETECTION CONVICTI

Download or read book HIST OF THE DETECTION CONVICTI written by Augustus Q. Walton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Detection, Conviction, Life and Designs of John A. Murel, the Great Western Land Pirate: Together With His System of Villainy, and Plan of Exciting a Negro Rebellion IT has been a notorious fact, for a number of years past, that negroes and fine horses are frequently missing from the farms of planters and the Citizens of the Mississippi Valley, and never again heard of by the unfortunate owners. These occurrences in many parts of the Southern and Western countries are so frequent that they have become a matter of the greatest concern to persons whose capital is invested in property Of that kind, there being no security of its safety, as they do not know on what night their farms may be robbed of a part of their most valu able horses and negroes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book A History of the Detection  Conviction  Life and Designs of John A  Murel

Download or read book A History of the Detection Conviction Life and Designs of John A Murel written by Augustus Q. Walton and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Life  Designs  Detection and Conviction of John A  Murel  i e  Murrell   the Great Western Land Pirate

Download or read book A History of the Life Designs Detection and Conviction of John A Murel i e Murrell the Great Western Land Pirate written by Augustus Q. Walton and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: