Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
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AMERICAN STATE TRIALS ‘A Collection of the Important and Interest- ing Criminal Trials which have taken place én the United States, from the beginning of our Goverwment to the Present Day. WITH NOTES AND ANNOTATIONS JOHN D. LAWSON, LL.D. Editor…
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Oopyright, 1918By JOHN D. LAWSON254119
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TOEVERETT PEPPERELL WHEELEROF NEW YORE ITYJURIST; PUBLICIST: LAW REFORMER:‘THIS VOLUME 18 INSCRIBED IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITIONOF MANY YEARS OF FEIENDSHIF.
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PREFACE TO VOLUME TENThough the trial of Edward D. Worrell (p. 1) is fullof striking and interesting features, it is the greatspeeches to the jury, of Wright and Bay that entitlesit to over 150 pages of this volume. And this…
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vi PREFACE TO VOLUME TENlost that gift of public speaking in the court-roomwhich so attracted the public a generation ago? Itmight be worth while for some student in our newly-founded schools of journalism to make a study of thisquestion and…
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PREFACE TO VOLUME TEN viiside meddling served only to increase their determina-tion that Frank should suffer death.Here Justice received its first wound. Every civ-ilized nation has determined that the guilt or inno-cence of one accused of crime and the punishment…
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viii PREFACE TO VOLUME TENerime and anxious to punish the criminal, twelve menwere chosen to try the issue of Frank’s guilt. Theywere ordinary men, shop-keepers and clerks, withoutany special education to fit them to follow logicallythe arguments pro and con…
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PREFACE TO VOLUME TEN ixthe question as to whether the judicial machinery hadbeen run properly, whether any inadmissible evidencehad been admitted, whether the jury had heard thecheers given to the prosecuting attorney by the crowdin the streets and so forth.…
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x PREFACE TO VOLUME TENJust think of thi, O! shades of Bentham and Broug-ham, who more than half a century ago helped to wipeout these absurdities from thé old English Procedurewhich, the work of churchmen in the middle ages, hadlived…
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PREFACE TO VOLUME TEN xiWhen will our appellate judges recognize that theirduty ig to do justice, not simply to see that the judicialmachine is run according to rulef When will ourtribunals arrive at that very different point of viewof the…
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xii PREFACE TO VOLUME TENernor, however, did not set Frank free. He sentencedhim to imprisonment for life. But if Frank murderedMary Phagan was there one extenuating reason whyhe should eseape the gallows? the evidence showsnone; his friends, his counsel, he…
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PREFACE T0 VOLUME TEN xiiiAs might be expected, this tragedy wrought ithewhole people of Massachusetts, and above all, the in-habitants of Boston, to the highest pitch of rage andindignation, The populace breathed only vengeance.Even minds better instructed and of higher…
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xiv PREFACE TO VOLUME TENtown, doubly anxious for the cause of humanity theyfelt an earnest desire that justice should not fall asacrifice in her own temple. Of these John Adamsand Josiah Quincy, junior, deserve most honorablemention. Sympathizing most deeply with…
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PREFACE TO VOLUHE TEN xvwere regarded with abhorrence that they were onlysaved from summary punishment by the jadicious ef-forts of the friends of law and order, the’ soldiers hada fair trial, the result of which has stood the test oftime…
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xvi PREFACE TO VOLUME TENin the foremost rank of the patriots of that day andeovered the names of some of their number with im-perishable fame.‘That curious ancient privilege, viz.: benefit of clergy,of which the two soldiers (Kilroy and Montgomery)eonvicted of…
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PREFACE TO VOLUME TEN xviiThe Leisler rebellion in New York (Jacob Leisler,p. 512) was the outgrowth of the anti-Catholic wavethat swept over England and ber colonies during thereign of James II, and Leisler’s imagination greatlymagnified the danger of a general…
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xviii PREFACE TO VOLUME TENis no reason to doubt the general aceuracy of that re-port although some of the statements in it should bereceived with much allowance. The trial as reportedgives evidence of great learning, research and skill onthe part…
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PREFACE TO VOLUME TEN xixlearned gentleman who had then contended that a whaleunder no circumstances was entitled to be called afish was now no more successful in his view that anegro might be the father of a white child.In passing…
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xx PREFACE TO VOLUME TENto be sublimely ignorant of what the great dramatisthas written of the comparative value of one’s purseand good name, treat a blackmailer as a person to hedealt with most tenderly—witness the mild sentencesgiven to Cook and…
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PREFACE TO VOLUME TEN XXLto be found in the castoms of their people, in the writ-ings of their jurists and in the decisions of theircourts, so the unwritten International law is to befound in the customs of nations, in the…
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xxil PREFACE TO VOLUME TENthere is a striking picture of the personages—lawyersand judges—who clashed so strongly in the celebratedtrial of James Thompson Callender (p. 813).It waa a picturesque gathering of Virginians that awaited theopening of the United States Circuit Court…
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PREFACE TO VOLUME TEN xxiiiwealth. Nevertheless, it was not these momentous isaues that at-tracted the majority of the legal professton, but rather the person-ality of the judge who proposed to try the cage, for His Honor wasprobably the most violent,…
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xxiv PREFACE TO VOLUME TENeducation and conelderable experience and ability as a lawyer hehad the majority of the attorneya who practiced before him at a dis-tinct advantage, and those whom he could not unhorse with legallearning he cowed and silenced…
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PREFACE TO VOLUME TEN xxv‘the case until nearly ten o’clock, when they slowly moved towardsthe scene of action, and a few minutes later filled the courtroom tooverflowing,At a table beside the judicial desk sat William Marshall, clerk ofthe court and…
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xxvi PREFACE TO VOLUME TENmost of those who returned his ecrutiay he was an entire stranger, foruntil the present term of the court he had never set foot in Richmond,and doubtless many of the apectators were prepared to find him…
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TABLE OF TRIALSThe Trial of EDWARD D. WORRELL for the Murder ofBASIL H. GORDON, Union, Misaourt, 1857The Trial of JOHN HODGES for Treason, Baltimore, Mary-fond, 1815 0The Triat of LEO M, FRANK for the Murder of MARYPHAGAN, Atiania, Georgia, 1913…
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xxviii TABLE OF TRIALSPAGEThe Trial of MRS. HERMAN H. HIRSCH fer Blackmail,Atlanta, Georgia, 1918 © 6 6 eww we ww. OEE B8SThe Triat of PEDRO GIBERT, BERNARDO DH SOTO,FRANCISCO RUIZ, NICOLA COSTA, ANTONIOFERRER, MANUEL BOYGA, DOMINGO DE GUZMAN,JUAN ANTONIO PORTANA,…
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THE TRIAL OF EDWARD D. WORRELL FOR THEMURDER OF BASIL H. GORDON,UNION, MISSOURI, 1857.THE NARRATIVE,Edward D. Worrell was the only child of Dr. Edward Wor-rell of Dover, Del, a college president. He was welleducated and after practicing dentistry for a…
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2 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.going to the place, found blood all over the mow, which con-tinued to a ravine about fifteen feet from the road. Herethey found Gordon’s body, covered with brush and snow, ahole through the head as if…
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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 3THE TRIAL.*In the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Union, Missouri,January, 1857.Hon. Jonn H. Srowz,? Judge.Edward D. Worrell had at the May Term, 1856, of the Cir-enit Court of Warren County been indicted jointly withWiliam H. Bruff for…