A rare original issue of an early American anti-death penalty newspaper The Hangman, Wednesday, June 4,1845. All in nice shape and yet with good evidence of age and originality the paper is complete and without rips or tears save a partial separation at the spine fold, and contains four 12.5 X 17 inch pages of fascinating news of executions. Published in Boston, Mass. each Wednesday by Charles and John M. Spear. This paper includes material on such as: notification of death sentencing of Babe the Pirate, confined in the Tombs, New York City also Pauline the Slave in Louisiana, A Colored Woman, Name Unknownin Delaware and other pending executions to include hangings in, New York, Vermont, Maine, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Indiana. Other points of interest include a full length narrative on life in s slave prison and another titled Reminiscences Of A Dartmor Prisoner. There is lots more interesting period incite in this rare old piece of Americana.