Life and confession of Mary Jane Gordon, who was tried, condemned, and hung, on the twenty-fourth day of February, 1849, for the murder of Jane Anderson, a native of Covington Kentucky
By: carefully collected by the author, J.S. Calhoun.
Publisher: Published by the author
Published: 1849
Place of publication: Covington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Anderson, Jane, d. 1848.; Gordon, Mary Jane, d. 1849.; Trials (Murder) -- Kentucky -- Covington.
Notes: McDade, T.M.  Murder, 367
Apparently a fictitious account. Another version was printed in 1847 with the date of the trial as February, 1847 and identifying the victim as a "native of Vassalboro, Maine." Cf. McDade, T.M. The annals of murder, p. 110-111.