The trial and biography of Return J.M. Ward, the most extraordinary murderer named in the calendar of crime
Subtitle: containing a brief sketch of his life, a summary of the evidence on trial, the sentence of the judge, his first and last confession, wherein he tells how he killed his wife and how he burned the body, with the details of two other horrid murders, his portrait, and accurate drawing of the house in which she was murdered, and that portion of the jaw bone identified at the trial, his execution
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: E. Cowles & Co.
Published: 1857
Place of publication: Cleveland, O
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Criminals; Murder; Biography
Notes: Cover title.

Illustrations mentioned in title appear on cover (port.) and p. [4] of cover.