CHAPTER FIRST. THE NIGHT OF THE 10TH OF MAY.

CHAPTER SECOND. FORREST AND MACREADY.

CHAPTER THIRD. THE QUARREL RECOMMENCED IN AMERICA.

CHAPTER FOURTH. THE PLOT THICKENS THE ENGAGEMENT AT THE OPERA. HOUSE MACREADY DRIVEN FROM THE STAGE.

CHAPTER FIFTH. THE COMBAT DEEPENS.

CHAPTER SIXTH. THE SCENES OF THE FATAL NIGHT.

CHAPTER SEVENTH. THE DAY AFTER THE RIOT POPULAR

CHAPTER NINTH. WHERE LIES THE BLAME?

ACCOUNT

OF THE

TERRIFIC AND FATAL RIOT

AT THE

New York Astor Place Opera House,

On the night of May 10th, 1849;


WITH THE

QUARRELS OF FORREST AND MACREADY,

INCLUDING ALL THE CAUSES WHICH LED TO THAT

AWFUL TRAGEDY!

Wherein an infuriated mob was quelled by the Public Authorities and Military,
with its mournful termination in the

Sudden Death or Mutilation of more than Fifty Citizens,

WITH FULL AND AUTHENTIC PARTICULARS.

“LET JUSTICE BE DONE THOUGH THE HEAVENS FALL!”

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY H. M. RANNEY.
1849.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,
BY H. M. RANNEY,
In the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the
Southern District of New York.