Item #10255 The Olive Trial. Carl E. Smith.
The Olive Trial
The Olive Trial

The Olive Trial

Broken Bow, Nebraska: Custer County Historical Society, 1973. [First Edition]. Hardcover. 8vo., 127pp., dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated. Contents: First Printed Account of the Shooting of Bob Olive - Horrible Crime by Twenty-five Masked Desperados - Report of the Coroner's Jury on Bob Olive's Body - Suspected Murderers Arrested - Reporter Talks with Lawrence Ketchum - Texas Man Talks of Olive Record in Texas - Print and Bob Oliver Were the Worst Men to Ever Live in Texas - Open Letter From a Kearney Woman to I. P. Oliver - Olive and Four of his Men Recognized - Phil Dufrand Testifies - Olive Family - Defense Unable to Break the Overwhelming Evidence - Gillan and Armstong Escape from Jail - Olive Trial, Testimony of Witnesses - Dufrand Cross Examined - Bion Brown Testifies - Money Transactions - Bion Brown Cross-Examined - Senator Thurston's Story - Judge Boblits Story - James Stockham's Story - Judge Lake's Reason for Releasing Olive and Fisher - Murder of Olive - Olive Killed at Trail City, Colorado - New Information - More Information on the Site of the Hanging. -- Condition. Fine. Item #10255

Price: $85.00

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