The trial of Emma Cunningham : murder and scandal in the Victorian era /

"The alleged 1857 murder of a wealthy Bond Street dentist by a Emma Cunningham, a young widow he was believed to be sexually involved with, served to distract many New Yorkers from the deepening national crisis over slavery in the United States. Public anxieties seemed well founded-domestic mur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenkins, Brian, 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers [2020]
Temas:
Cunningham, Emma Augusta > Trials, litigation, etc.
Burdell, Harvey, > -1857 > Estate.
Burdell, Harvey, > 1811-1857
Cunningham, Emma Augusta
Trials (Murder) > New York (State) > New York.
Procès (Meurtre) > New York (État) > New York.
Decedents' estates
Trials (Murder)
New York (State) > New York
Trial and arbitral proceedings
Trials, litigation, etc.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Murder in Bond Street
  • The inquest opens
  • The coroner's theory
  • Clinton intervenes
  • Verdicts and indictments
  • In the court of public opinion
  • The case for the people
  • The defense
  • The response to the verdict
  • The bogus baby melodrama
  • The question of guilt.

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