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Bribery and piracy! willful and malicious loss of the steamship Shooting Star : fraud unparalleled! : $125,000 swindle! : one chapter in the Boston ring of rascality at New Orleans under the administration of the Hon. N.P. Banks, manipulated by A.S. Mansfield and his partners and associates

Title
Bribery and piracy! [electronic resource] : willful and malicious loss of the steamship Shooting Star : fraud unparalleled! : $125,000 swindle! : one chapter in the Boston ring of rascality at New Orleans under the administration of the Hon. N.P. Banks, manipulated by A.S. Mansfield and his partners and associates / [by William M. Hall].
Author
Hall, William M.
Publication
New York : [s.n.], 1870.
Supplementary Content
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Details

Description
57, [1] p.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
History of my connection with the case
Subject
  • Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894
  • Mansfield, A. S
  • Shooting Star (Ship) > History
  • Shipwrecks > Mexico, Gulf of
  • Marine insurance > Massachusetts > Boston
  • Fraud > Massachusetts > Boston
  • Insurance crimes > Massachusetts > Boston
Note
  • Title page vignette shows scaffold with three nooses, with the words, "The" and "cheated" at top and bottom, respectively, and "The mills of the Gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine" on either side.
  • Two columns to the page.
  • "Errata": p. 57.
  • Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
  • Sabin no. 29861.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
TGPSM08-B2935
Author
Hall, William M.
Title
Bribery and piracy! [electronic resource] : willful and malicious loss of the steamship Shooting Star : fraud unparalleled! : $125,000 swindle! : one chapter in the Boston ring of rascality at New Orleans under the administration of the Hon. N.P. Banks, manipulated by A.S. Mansfield and his partners and associates / [by William M. Hall].
Imprint
New York : [s.n.], 1870.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2008. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Local Note
Maritime; Finance; Postbellum.
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Caption Title
History of my connection with the case
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