Albumen CDV on mount with printed title, "Luther J. Verrill, The Supposed West Auburn Murderer." Copyrighted 1867 by C.C. Conclon, Maine. Rare studio photograph of Verrill, a white man charged but not convicted of murdering two white women. Verrill was accused as the murders' perpetrator by an African American man named Clifton Harris, who was subsequently executed for the crime. This execution, considered by many in Maine as a blatant act of racism, led in part to Maine's abolition of the death penalty in 1887. Provenance: Property from the Inventory of Rex Stark Condition: Toning to carte. Otherwise very good condition.
Albumen CDV on mount with printed title, "Luther J. Verrill, The Supposed West Auburn Murderer." Copyrighted 1867 by C.C. Conclon, Maine. Rare studio photograph of Verrill, a white man charged but not convicted of murdering two white women. Verrill was accused as the murders' perpetrator by an African American man named Clifton Harris, who was subsequently executed for the crime. This execution, considered by many in Maine as a blatant act of racism, led in part to Maine's abolition of the death penalty in 1887. Provenance: Property from the Inventory of Rex Stark Condition: Toning to carte. Otherwise very good condition.
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