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My Own Story An Account of The Conditions in Kentucky Leading to The Assassination of William Goebel, Who Was Declared Governor of The State, and My ... on The Charge of Complicity in His Murder
Full My Own Story An Account of The Conditions in Kentucky Leading to The Assassination of William Goebel, Who Was Declared Governor of The State, and My Indictment and Conviction on The Charge of Complicity in His Murder
The Making of the Modern Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial. Trials provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.
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Monograph
Yale Law Library
The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1905
The Making of the Modern Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial. Trials provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.
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The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition
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Monograph
Yale Law Library
The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1905
530 pages, Paperback
First published November 19, 1905
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About the author
Caleb Powers
15 books2 followersKentuckian US Representative & the first Secretary State of Kentucky.
He was convicted as an accessory to murder of Governor William Goebel .An appeals court overturned Powers' conviction, though Powers was tried three more times, resulting in two convictions and a hung jury. Governor Augustus E. Willson pardoned Powers in 1908. Powers had served eight years in jail.
After leaving prison, Powers was elected as a Republican to the 62nd and to the three succeeding Congresses but was not a candidate for renomination in 1918.
He served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912 and moved to Washington, D.C., and served as assistant counsel for the United States Shipping Board from 1921 until his death in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1932.
He was convicted as an accessory to murder of Governor William Goebel .An appeals court overturned Powers' conviction, though Powers was tried three more times, resulting in two convictions and a hung jury. Governor Augustus E. Willson pardoned Powers in 1908. Powers had served eight years in jail.
After leaving prison, Powers was elected as a Republican to the 62nd and to the three succeeding Congresses but was not a candidate for renomination in 1918.
He served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912 and moved to Washington, D.C., and served as assistant counsel for the United States Shipping Board from 1921 until his death in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1932.
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