The trials of Laura Fair : sex, murder, and insanity in the Victorian West /
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A.P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2013]
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