THE NEW-YORK CITY-HALL RECORDER, CONTAINING AUTHENTIC REPORTS OF THE MOST INTERESTING TRIALS AND DECISIONS ARISING IN THE VARIOUS COURTS OF JUDICATURE, HELD AT THE CITY-HALL. WITH ALL THE IMPORTANT LEGAL INTELLIGENCE AFFECTING THE INTERESTS OF THIS METROPOLIS. VOL. I. NO. 6. JUNE, 1816

New York: Charles N. Baldwin, Printer, 1816. [89]-104 pp [as issued]. Original printed tan wrappers [minor wear and a few spots, closed tear to rear wrap], stitched, untrimmed, printed in double columns. Partly loosened. Lightly toned, Very Good.

The Reports are a glimpse of early New York's underside, with the following cases: Mordecai Lazarus indicted for obtaining goods by false pretenses from Augustus F. Camman; Andrew and Elizabeth Mickle indicted for assault and battery committed on Lewis Thiery; Jasper Cropsey and John Blair indicted for assault and battery committed on John Baker; John Francis, a mulatto about thirteen years old, indicted and found guilty of grand larceny for stealing a $100 bank note from the captain aboard the Sloop Huntress on passage to New Haven, sentenced to three years in prison; Patrick Blake indicted for murdering his wife by inflicting a wound under her left breast with a knife; John Van and John Dickson indicted and convicted of rioting and assault; and more exciting cases.