[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF THE WIFE OF HICKS.] [Illustration: THE BOAT IN WHICH HICKS ESCAPED FROM THE OYSTER SLOOP.] [Illustration: PORTRAIT OF ALBERT W. HICKS, THE PIRATE.] THE LIFE, TRIAL, CONFESSION AND EXECUTION OF ALBERT W. HICKS, THE PIRATE AND MURDERER, EXECUTED ON BEDLOE’S ISLAND, NEW YORK BAY, ON THE 13TH OF JULY, 1860, FOR THE MURDER OF CAPT. BURR, SMITH AND OLIVER WATTS, ON BOARD THE OYSTER SLOOP E. A. JOHNSON. CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE (WRITTEN BY HIMSELF) FROM CHILDHOOD UP TO THE TIME OF HIS ARREST. WITH A FULL ACCOUNT OF HIS PIRACIES, MURDERS, MUTINIES, HIGH-WAY ROBBERIES, ETC., COMPRISING THE PARTICULARS OF NEARLY ONE HUNDRED MURDERS! TO WHICH IS ADDED THE ACCOUNT OF HIS ARREST, IMPRISONMENT, TRIAL AND EXECUTION. ALSO, HIS PHRENOLOGICAL CHARACTER, AS DESCRIBED BY L. N. FOWLER. OFFICE U. S. MARSHAL, } _Southern District of New York_. } I hereby certify that the within Confession of ALBERT W. HICKS was made by him to me, and that it is the only confession made by him. LORENZO DE ANGELIS, DEP. U. S. MARSHAL. NEW YORK: ROBERT M. DE WITT, PUBLISHER, 13 FRANKFORT STREET Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by ROBERT M. DE WITT, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. THE TRIAL OF ALBERT W. HICKS, FOR PIRACY ON BOARD THE SLOOP EDWIN A. JOHNSON. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. Before HON. JUDGE SMALLEY. HISTORY OF THE CASE. On Thursday, March 16th, the sloop “E. A. Johnson,” sailed from the foot of Spring street, New York, for Deep Creek, Va., for a cargo of oysters. The same sloop was ashore near Tottenville, S. I. on Friday, getting scrubbed, and having some carpenter work done. There she laid till Sunday morning, when she floated off, and proceeded down the Bay.