A Celebrated case, the Raber murder : containing a detailed and accurate account of the murder of Joseph Raber, by drowning in Indiantown Creek, Union Township, Lebanon Co., Pa., on the 7th day of December, 1878, for the amount of insurance money upon his life : with a verbatim report of the trial and conviction of six men for the crime and a full history of their lives and confessions.

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