A TEXAS PRISONER. SKETCHES OF THE PENITENTIARY, CONVICT FARMS AND RAILROADS, TOGETHER WITH POEMS.
George, Andrew L.:
Price: 250.00 USD
np:: nd [1895?]. 4 1/4" x 5 3/4", in original printed yellow pictorial title wrappers and staples. Lower forecorners chipped, affecting 3-4 letters at leaf 13-14. Good+. The front wrapper depicts the gallows, the rear wrapper a convict in his prison dress; there are eight photographic illustrations, one of them captioned 'Prisoner Taken from Dungeon and Whipped.' The text demonstrates the horrors of prison life, with the usual homilies: "Bad company, cards and whiskey have filled the prisons and will ruin any young man who partakes of them." The author was convicted of murder in 1884, and sentenced to be hanged; but Governor Ireland commuted his sentence to life imprisonment at Huntsville. He was finally exonerated and pardoned when a fellow prisoner confessed to the murder. This is one of two issues, the other with a Charlotte NC imprint. OCLC records five locations, under two accession numbers, for this offering. Adams Six Guns 822.
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