The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - The Gallows Dextrously Cheated

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Online Full Text: Northern Illinois University
Series: New York Weekly v. 34 no. 6 — page 4
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: New York Weekly, v. XXXIV, no. 6, December 23, 1878 (Issue)
Date: December 23, 1878
First Sentence: "Hank" Cummings, a notorious desperado and murderer, of Southern California, who was to have been hanged at San Diego on the 18th ult., was shrewd enough to cheat the hangman almost at the last moment in a manner in which that necessary, but repulsive, functionary was probably never cheated before.

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