Livingston Arsenic and Clam Chowder

Murder in Gilded Age New York
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3180-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Excelsior Editions

Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Livingston, James D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Death of Evelina Bliss

2. The New York World

3. Mary Alice Almont of the New York Livingstons

4. Promises Breached

5. In the Tombs

6. Twelve Good Men and True

7. Opening of the People’s Case

8. The People Rest

9. The Defense

10. Decision

11. Afterwards

12. Reasonable Doubt and Judicial Murder

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Über Autor(innen)

Born June 23, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, James D. Livingston studied engineering physics at Cornell University and received a PhD in applied physics from Harvard University in 1956. Since retiring from General Electric after a lengthy career as a research physicist, he has been teaching in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. Although a physicist by profession, he has long had a strong interest in American history, and is the coauthor, with Sherry H. Penney, of A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women's Rights.