Killed Strangely : The Death of Rebecca Cornell /

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"On a winter's evening in 1673, tragedy descended on the respectable Rhode Island household of Thomas Cornell. His 73-year-old mother, Rebecca, was found close to her her bedroom's large fireplace, dead and badly burned. The legal owner of the Cornells' hundred acres along Narrag...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crane, Elaine Forman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cornell, Thomas, > 1627?-1673.
Cornell, Rebecca, > 1600-1673.
Trials (Murder)
Homicide.
TRUE CRIME > Murder > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Proces (Meurtre) > Rhode Island > Portsmouth > Histoire > 17e siecle > Études de cas.
Trials (Murder) > Rhode Island > Portsmouth > History > 17th century > Case studies.
Homicide > Rhode Island > Portsmouth > History > 17th century > Case studies.
Rhode Island > Portsmouth.
Portsmouth (R.I.) > History > 17th century.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Killed Strangely
  • Contents
  • Acknowlegments
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Death in the Family
  • 2. The Background of a Tragedy
  • 3. The Contentious World of Thomas Cornell
  • 4. Doubting Thomas: Or, Considering the Alternatives
  • 5. A Community Renders a Verdict
  • 6. Life after Death
  • Notes
  • Index

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