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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jenkins, Brian, 1939- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers [2020]
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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