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The Important Results of an Elaborate Investigation into the Mysterious Case of Elizabeth Fenning:being a Detail of Extraordinary Facts Discovered Since her Execution, Including the Official Report of her Singular Trial, now First Published, and ...
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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
Harvard Law School Library
Printed For William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, 1815
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
Harvard Law School Library
Printed For William Hone, 55, Fleet Street, 1815
258 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1815
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May 4, 2012
This book is fascinating to anyone who interested in the trials and executions of the innocent in the mid 1800s. The scanned pages are, at times, illegible. I have found a lot of the same court reports online that have been transcribed so that doesn't bother me. What I love about the book is the notes by the author on almost all the questions asked of witnesses at Elizabeth's Trial. She did not have much of a defense team and several of her witnesses were not allowed to testify. She was found guilty poisoning her employers with arsenic. All, including Elizabeth became ill after eating yeast dumplings at dinner. Although no one died and recovered the next day, she was unjustly tried, convicted and sentenced to hang. The author shows through his investigation they had only circumstantial evidence with very shaking testimony on the side of the plaintiff's witnesses.
A very good read, especially for me since I am writing a historical mystery based on these events.
A very good read, especially for me since I am writing a historical mystery based on these events.
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