| LC control no. | n 2004024195 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Keith, Alexander, 1827- |
| Variant(s) | Keith, Alexander, b. 1827 Keith, Sandy, 1827- King, William Thomas, 1827- |
| Birth date | 18271113 |
| Found in | The gentleman bomber, 2005 CIP galley (Alexander Keith, Jr.; b. in Scotland Nov. 13, 1827; Confederate covert operative and terrorist; served with Confederate secret service during Civil War and from his base in Halifax, N.S., helped organize terrorist plots during the war; went on the run near the end of the war and took up residence in Germany; con artist and mass murderer whose alias was William Thomas King; as King he was responsible for the bombing of the German steamship Mosel in 1875; nicknamed "Sandy" as a youth; nephew of Halifax, N.S. brewer Alexander Keith, 1795-1873; was distant from his own father John Keith, so presented himself as his uncle's son and tacked "Jr." or "the Younger" to his name) |
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