Life and Bloody Career of the Executed Criminal, James Copeland, the Great Souther Land Pirate

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Author

Pitts, J. R. S. (James Robert Soda), 1832-1920

Title

Life and bloody career of the executed criminal, James Copeland, the great Southern land pirate

Original Publication

Jackson: Pilot Publishing Company, 1874.

Credits

Charlene Taylor, Chris Miceli and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

F296: United States local history: Gulf States. West Florida

Subject

Criminals -- Gulf States -- Biography

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 73377

Release Date

April 11, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.LIFE AND BLOODY CAREER OF THE EXECUTED CRIMINAL, JAMES COPELAND, THE GREAT SOUTHERN LAND PIRATE
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.PREFACE.
7. 7.LIFE AND CAREER OF JAMES COPELAND, THE SOUTHERN LAND PIRATE, AND HIS INTIMATE ASSOCIATES, — POISONING THE OVERSEER. — MURDER OF THE TWO MEXICANS IN TEXAS. — WELTER AND HARDEN’S DECEPTION—WELTER ACTING AS UNITED STATES MARSHAL. — WAGES’ AND HARDEN’S PLOT TO KILL ROBERT LOTT AND THOMAS SUMRALL. — MR. MOORE AFTER PREACHER M’GRATH, IN TEXAS. — M’GRATH IN DISGUISE. — MURDER OF O’CONNOR ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. — MEETING OF THE CLAN IN MOBILE, ALABAMA. — BURNING OF ELI MAFFITT’S HOUSE, AND ATTEMPTED MURDER OF HIS WIFE. — WAGES AND M’GRATH KILLED BY HARVEY. — REWARD OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS OFFERED FOR HARVEY’S SCALP. — PRESENTIMENT OF POOL’S DEATH. — THE FAMOUS HARVEY BATTLE.
8. 8.TRIAL OF JAMES COPELAND.
9. 9.THE DEATH WARRANT. — THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
10. 10.THE EXECUTION. — GRAND JURY. — WITNESSES. — MEMBERS OF THE COPELAND AND WAGES CLAN. — LETTER OF JAMES COPELAND TO HIS MOTHER. — MYSTIC ALPHABET
11. 11.APPENDIX. — S. S. SHOEMAKE, THE ARCH-MONSTER OF ATROCITY AND THE PERFECTION OF DECEPTION, WITH HIS JOHN R. GARLAND LETTER. — SHOEMAKE VISITS THE SHERIFF IN PERSON WITH HIS BOGUS AUTHORITY FROM THE PROBATE JUDGE OF KEMPER COUNTY. — SHOEMAKE RETURNS WITH A WRIT FOR THE SHERIFF’S ARREST. — SHOEMAKE’S OBJECT WAS ASSASSINATION. — IMPORTANT INFORMATION GATHERED ABOUT THE BURIED TREASURE. — PRELIMINARY REMARKS TOUCHING THE TRIAL. — THE RECORDS OF THE TRIAL FROM THE CITY COURT OF MOBILE. — COMMENTS ON THE RECORDS. — SHOEMAKE AND B. TAYLOR IN COURT. — M’LAMORE FELL A VICTIM TO THE VENGEANCE OF THE CLAN. — G. Y. OVERALL PROVES AN ALIBI — THE ARGUMENTS FROM BOTH SIDES. — THE COURT AND THE JURY. — TAMPERING WITH THE JURY. — SYMPATHY AND REGRET AS EXPRESSED BY SEVERAL JURORS. — FAILURE OF PETITION—RECEIVES THE KINDEST TREATMENT WHILE IN PRISON. — THE CLAN GROVELLINGLY PENETRATES PRIVATE TRANSACTIONS. — MISS BOWEN’S LETTER. — DR. BEVELL’S LETTER TO MISS BOWDEN. — MISS BOWEN’S REPLY TO DR. BEVELL’S LETTER. — AN EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF THE DEFENDANT BEFORE THE COMMITTEE. — A LETTER FROM A FRIEND IN TEXAS AFTER DEFENDANT’S RELEASE. — A LETTER TAKEN FROM THE “TRUE DEMOCRAT.” — THE CHARACTER OF THE PROSECUTOR. — THE CHARACTER OF THE PROSECUTION. — CONCLUDING SKETCH OF THE TRIAL. — ANOTHER DESIGN OF ASSASSINATION. — SHOEMAKE AGAIN. — THE TWO HARDENS AND THE MURDER OF SHERIFF SMITH. — JAMES M’ARTHUR, OR “CALICO DICK.” — REFLECTIONS ON THE FOREGOING, AND ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF INABILITY TO REPRESS SUCH FLAGRANT AND WELL KNOWN CRIMES. — THE HORRID MURDER OF W. C. STANLEY AT ESCATAWPA. — MORE ABOUT FROST, “CALICO DICK’S” NEPHEW. — NECESSARY COMMENTS ON UNPUNISHED CRIME.
12. 12.INDEX.
13. 13.Untitled

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