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mes King, of William, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, and Charles Cora, murderer of United States Marshal Richardson; tried and hanged by the vigilance committee in San Francisco......May 20, 1856 Dred Scott case (q. v.)......1856 R. J. M. Ward ( the most extraordinary murderer named in the calendar of crime ), Cleveland, O.......1857 Emma A. Cunningham, for the murder of Dr. Burdell, in New York City, Jan. 30, 1856; acquitted......May, 1857 Daniel E. Sickles, for killing Philrmy officer who had duplicated his pay account; sentenced to suspension from duty for twelve years on half-pay; trial opens......Nov. 15, 1884 James D. Fish, president of the Marine Bank, of New York, secretly connected with the firm of Grant & Ward, convicted of misappropriation of funds, April 11, and sentenced to ten years at hard labor in Sing Sing, N. Y.......June 27, 1885 Ferdinand Ward, of the suspended firm of Grant & Ward, New York City, indicted for financial frauds, June 4; conv