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Joseph Pulitzer

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Joseph Pulitzer

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Auction Date:2013 Mar 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Post-Dispatch business check, 8 x 3.25, filled out in another hand and signed by Pulitzer, payable to John A. Cockerill Esq. for $400, May 27, 1882. Three vertical folds (one passing through a single letter of the signature), a few light creases, and expected cancellation cuts, otherwise fine condition. Cockerill was editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who, less than five months after the date of this check, shot and killed Alonzo Slayback during an argument in his office. Slayback had a long standing feud with the Post-Dispatch, which had published political attacks against him in the past. While Cockerill was found justified in the homicide by reason of self-defense, it was a controversial trial that cost the Post-Dispatch many subscribers and advertisers.