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LOT 571
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[Mutiny] The Jefferson Borden Mutiny.

Circuit Court of the United States, District of Massachusetts. Trial of George Miller, John Glew and William Smith for murder on the high seas. Before Clifford and Lowell, JJ., Boston. Printed under direction of the clerk of the court, 1876. Sm. 8vo., paper cover with title on front, 141 pp.,

The Jefferson Borden was on her way to London from New Orleans. Corydon Trask Patterson was the boatsman who was hit by an iron bar during the mutiny (which got suppressed), and he was thrown overboard. Glew was acquitted and Miller and Smith were convicted. Cover damaged, otherwise good copy.

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