Redistributing Wealth

The Dying Confession of Joseph Hare. Baltimore: Printed for the Publisher, 1818.

Joseph Hare perfected his trade as a highway robber along the Natchez Trace in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. In 1818, he and his gang hijacked a Baltimore mail coach bound for Philadelphia, making off with some $90,000. Caught spending the money, ringleader Hare and his partner were sent to the gallows not long after being apprehended.