Heading: (Assassination...)
Author:
Title: Assassination of James King of Wm. by James P. Casey. San Francisco, May 14th, 1856
Place Published: [San Francisco]
Publisher:Britton & Rey
Date Published: [before June 4,1856]
Description:

Four lithograph illustrations, each approx. 12x17 cm (4¾x6¾"), and text printed across a double sheet measuring 27.5x42.4 cm (11x16¾") overall, green wove paper.

"[James King of William] began to publish a newspaper, the Bulletin (1855), in which he excoriated politicians, lawyers, and judges as well as institutions whose actions he found responsible for local corruption. His vigorous muckraking led him to call a county supervisor, James P. Casey, crooked and to reveal that Casey was an ex-convict. When the infuriated Casey could not get a retraction, he openly shot down King of William on the street. King of William, who had been on the executive committee of the first Vigilance Committee (1851), was by death responsible for bringing a second such committee into being. It tried Casey and executed him at the very hour King of William was being buried." - Hart, p. 223. Baird 5; Clifford 6.

Tape repairs on verso at folds and margins which are bleeding through; good condition.