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[Illustration: STEPHEN H. BRANCH’S ALLIGATOR.]
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Volume I.—No. 17. SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1858. Price 2 Cents.
TRIAL OF STEPHEN H. BRANCH,
FOR
LIBEL.
For want of room we omit the evidence and insert summing up of counsel
for defendant, remarks of Mr. Branch, sentence by the Recorder and
opinions of the Press:
[_From the N. Y. Express._]