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An argument over money between bookkeeper John C. Colt and
printer Samuel Adams, on September 17, 1841, ended in the murder of Adams in
Colt’s Manhattan office. Colt tried to dispose of the body by crating it up and
shipping it to New Orleans.
Read the full story here: The Corpse in the Shipping Crate.
Illustrations from "Trial of John C. Colt", New York Sun, January 31,1842.
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