No. 173—Vol. 7. 16 pp. [255-270], with numerous stories, illustrations and cartoons. Front cover features an illustration of Dan Sickles in jail in a Washington, DC., jail, with the following caption: “The Hon. Daniel E. Sickles Receiving His Friends During the Day in the Jailor’s Apartments. “Interior illustrations include a full-page depiction of the “Grand Jury Finding a True Bill For Murder Against Hon. Dan Sickles, March 17.” [Sickles had earlier shot down his wife’s lover, Philip Barton Key, Francis Scott Key’s nephew, in Lafayette Square just opposite the White House. In his murder trial, Congressman Sickles would be defended by Edwin Station, later Lincoln’s Secretary of War, who would get Sickles acquitted on a plea of “Temporary Insanity”, the first use of such a plea in American Jurisprudence. Sickles would later figure as the controversial Union Third Corps commander at Gettysburg.]

Exhibits mounting dots on left cover margin. Else mint. Superb collectible. Especially for buffs conversant with the colorful career of Sickle’s The Incredible. In protective sleeve, w/white card backing.   [JP]

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