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1892 True Crime Rejected Love, Murder Condemned to Hang
Life, Trial, and Confession Frank C. Almy. Published by John J. Lane, Laconia, N. H., 1892. A rare dime novel sensationalizing the crimes of Frank C. Almy the murderer of Christie Warden in lurid detail!
First edition. 32 pp., Illustrated. George Abbott was a young child when he began his career as a thief and by his thirtieth birthday he had spent a third of his life in jail. When he left prison he changed his name to Frank C. Almy and tried to change his evil ways. He found work working as a farmhand in Hanover, New Hampshire, and fell in love with the farmer’s daughter, Christie Warden. When Christie did not return Almy’s affections, he shot and killed her. Almy was arrested and tried for the girl’s murder. He was found guilty and was sentenced to hang. Scarce.
