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1834 Newspaper Assassination of Foundling Wild Boy Caspar Hauser PT Barnum
1834 Newspaper Assassination of Foundling Wild Boy Caspar Hauser PT Barnum
1834 Newspaper Assassination of Foundling Wild Boy Caspar Hauser PT Barnum
1834 Newspaper Assassination of Foundling Wild Boy Caspar Hauser PT Barnum

1834 Newspaper Assassination of Foundling Wild Boy Caspar Hauser PT Barnum

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    New York Weekly Mirror for March 12, 1834. Complete 4 pages newspaper in vg condition.
    2 articles of interest for the unusual and bizarre: one, an article on a new exhibit at PT Barnum's American Museum in New York City- the "Mammoth Man", one Mr. Pritchard, who stood 5 feet 10 inches high but was nearly 7 feet  wide, clocking in at 520 pounds.
    The other article is a very long piece on the assassination of Caspar Hauser, the German foundling who claimed to have been raised in a dark cell in at an unknown location. His discovery took Europe by storm, and this article, by the well known educator/geographer/publisher William Channing Woodbridge and only published in a few American journals, is a nearly 34 column inch long (very small type) outlining Caspar Hauser's strange life and bizarre exploits, until his supposed assassination a few months before this article came out. Altogether a scarce biographical account that is all but unknown today.