Alton trials
Subtitle: of Winthrop S. Gilman, 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 : 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 Carr, and James M. Rock, indicted with James Jennings, Solomon Morgan, and Frederick Bruchy, 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
By: written out from notes taken at the time of trial, by William S. Lincoln
Contributors: Solomon, John
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: John F. Trow
Published: 1838
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Riots; History
Other titles: Alton trials of Winthrop Sargent Gilman
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Yale Law Library.