Alton trials: of Winthrop S. Gilman
Subtitle: who was indicted with Enoch Long, Amos B. Roff, George H. Walworth, George H. Whitney, William Harned, John S. Noble, James Morss, Jr., Henry Tanner, Royal Weller, Reuben Gerry, and Thaddeus B. Hurlbut: for the crime of riot, committed on the night of the 7th of November, 1837, while engaged in defending a printing press, from an attack made on it at that time, by an armed mob
By: Written out from notes of the trial, taken at the time, by a member of the bar of the Alton Municipal court. Also, the trial of John Solomon, Levi Palmer, Horace Beall, Josiah Nutter, Jacob Smith, David Butler, William Carrn, and James M. Rock, indicted ... for a riot committed in Alton, on the night of the 7th of November, 1837, in unlawfully and forcibly entering the warehouse of Godfrey, Gilman & Co., and breaking up and destroying a printing press. Written out from notes taken at the time of trial, by William S. Lincoln ...
Publisher: J.F. Trow
Published: 1838
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Slavery
Notes: Report of the trials succeeding the anti-abolition riot in which Elijah P. Lovejoy was killed.