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Celebrated Criminal Cases of America
In Celebrated Criminal Cases of America, Thomas Samuel Duke assembles one of the most remarkable compendiums of true crime ever produced in the early twentieth century. First published in 1910, this monumental work chronicles the nation's most sensational trials, murders, and manhunts from colonial times to the dawn of the modern age. Drawing on court transcripts, police records, and contemporary journalism, Duke recounts each case with a rare blend of investigative precision and narrative flair, offering an unflinching look at the darker currents of American life. From the frontier outlaws and Gilded Age swindlers to the infamous crimes that shocked a growing republic, Duke's chronicle capt...
The Trials of Laura Fair
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 a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury disregarded such testimony, choosing instead to focus on Fair's disreputable character. In the second trial, however, an effective defense built on contemporary medical beliefs and gendered stereotypes led to a verdict that shocked Americans across the country. In this rousing history, Carole Haber probes changing ideas about morality and immorality, masculinity and femininity, love and marriage, health and disease, and mental illness to show that all these concepts were reinvented in the Victorian West. Haber's book examines the era's most controversial issues, including suffrage, the gendered courts, women's physiology, and free love. This notorious story enriches our understanding of Victorian society, opening the door to a discussion about the ways in which reputation, especially female reputation, is shaped.
The Gentle Tamers
Presents portraits of the outstanding women who helped settle the Western frontier
Women and Capital Punishment in America, 1840-1899
Perhaps the single medium in which women have been consistently treated as equal to men is the American judicial system. Although the system has met with enormous public condemnation, equality under the law has justified the legal execution of nearly six hundred American women since 1632. This book profiles the lives and cases of selected women sentenced to capital punishment in America between 1840 and 1899, most of whom were executed by hanging. The book is divided into chapters by decades, chronologically following a summary of the long and heated debate regarding women and capital punishment. Also evident is the influence of the 1870s women's rights movement on the issue. Each chapter concludes with a comprehensive list of all women executed in the United States during the respective decade, specifying age, ethnicity and criminal conviction.
The Criminal Law Magazine and Reporter
Containing original articles on timely topics, full reports of important cases, and a quarterly digest of all recent criminal cases, American and English.
