Excerpt from Life and Adventures of Charles Anderson Chester, the Notorious Leader of the Philadelphia Killers, Who Was Murdered, While Engaged in the Destruction of the California House, on Election Night, October 11, 1849<br><br>He was sitting in his room, at the crack hotel Of the College town, when he received his father's letter. He had spent his last dollar. He was in arrears for board. He was beset by duns, duns of every Shape from the waiter to the washer woman. While meditating over the state Of affairs he received his father's letter. It was terse and to the point.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.