The Life, Trial, Confession and Execution of Albert W. Hicks The Pirate and Murderer, Executed on Bedloe's Island, New York Bay, on the 13th of July, 1860, for the Murder of Capt. Burr, Smith and Oliver Watts, on Board the Oyster Sloop E. A. Johnson. Containing the History of His Life (Written by Himself) from Childhood Up to the Time of His Arrest. With a Full Account of His Piracies, Murders, Mutinies, High-way Robberies, etc., Comprising the Particulars of Nearly One Hundred Murders! to which is added the Account of His Arrest, Imprisonment, Trial and Execution. Also, His Phrenological Character, as described by L. N. Fowler.

THE LIFE, TRIAL, CONFESSION AND EXECUTION OF ALBERT W. HICKS, THE PIRATE AND MURDERER, EXECUTED ON BEDLOE’S ISLAND, NEW YORK BAY, ON THE 13TH OF JULY, 1860, FOR THE MURDER OF CA...

We have been favored by a gentleman with the following account of the family of Hicks: The father of the prisoner lives at Gloucester, a few miles from Chepatchet, Rhode Island....

On the Monday following his being brought here he was examined before a United States magistrate, was indicted, and is now brought before you for the offence of robbery on the h...

PATRICK MCCAFFREY deposed—I am a deck hand on the Staten Island ferry-boat Southfield; I know the prisoner; I saw him in the gentlemen’s cabin about seven o’clock on the morning...

DIDEME BURR (the widow of Captain Burr, dressed in deep mourning) was called to the stand and deposed—My husband, Captain George H. Burr, left home on the 8th of March last; I h...

This was agreed to by Mr. De Angelis, and accordingly, on the 13th of June, that gentleman, accompanied by an amanuensis, visited Hicks in his cell, and there listened to his co...

The noise of the oars attracted the attention of the sentry, and he and the captain both fired at us, without effect, and the store-ship Lexington, which was lying close by, fir...

We ran on the Florida reefs in a fog, and all hands were lost, except myself, Lockwood, the captain and mate. We were taken off by a small schooner and carried into St. Marks, w...