The trial of Stephen Arnold, for the murder of Betsy Van Amburgh, a child six years of age
Subtitle: before the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, for the county of Otsego, at the court-house in Cooperstown. June 4th, 1805
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 7883; Making of modern law
Publisher: Printed by E. Phinney, and sold at his bookstore. Published according to act of Congress.
Published: 1805
Place of publication: Cooperstown (N.Y.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Murder; Trials (Murder); Trials, litigation
Notes: For a history of the affair of Stephen Arnold, schoolmaster at Burlington, N.Y., see Jones, L.C. The crime and punishment of Stephen Arnold, 1966.

Another edition, printed by George G. Phinney at Newark, N.J., in 1806, has copyright statement naming Elihu Phinney as the author of this account. Elihu Phinney, editor and publisher of the Otsego herald, Cooperstown, N.Y., was foreman of the grand jury that indicted Arnold for murder, and probably issued this at the conclusion of the trial in June 1805.

Includes, on p. 22-24, an "Advertisement, &c." dated January 26, 1805, "written by the editor of the Otsego herald, in which it was first published ..." offering a two hundred dollar reward for Arnold's capture.

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