Sixteen-page issue whose lead topic is the execution of two of John Brown’s raiders John E. Cook and Edwin Coppoc.

The bottom of the front page is dominated by a drawing of a sentry outside their jail shooting at the men as they tried a failed attempt to escape. The upper portion of the front page is taken up with a drawing of the chain link the two men sawed through to escape and a drawing of Hinton Rowan Helper with a short biography. Helper authored the book “The Impending Crisis of the South.” Also inside this issue is an article with drawings of the dedication of a new city prison in Baltimore and drawings of the 14 men executed in Haiti for murdering the daughter of that country’s president.

The middle of this paper has a three panel foldout drawing of the execution of Cook and Coppoc at Charlestown, then Virginia with another full page drawing of the procession of the guards and prisoners through the town to the execution site.

Issue is complete and in good condition for its age with minor tears on some page edges but nothing major.  [jp] [ph:L]

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