Excerpt from Extraordinary Cases MY work entitled Extraordinary Cases having been received with generous favor by the profession, the public, and the press, I am encouraged to send forth another volume, containing sketches of other cele brated trials with which I was professionally connect ed during my forty years' active practice of law in the city of New York. For the last hundred years there have been no trials in this country of more intense and thrilling interest than some of those recorded in this volume, especially the trial of Mrs. Cunningham for the murder of Dr. Burdell, in 1857; the trial of wvilliam M. Tweed, in 1873, for ofiicial misconduct (which re sulted in his conviction and imprisonment); the case of John Kelly, the distinguished leader of Tammany Hall, against Mayor iiavemeyer, for libel; and the trial of Richard Croker, the noted politician, for the murder of John mckenna, in 1874. In the language of the Pref ace to my former work, which is equally applicable to the present one, There are a few cases of peculiar and extraordinary character which, if published, never lose their interest. I have endeavored to embrace such, and only such, in this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.