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Getting away with murder on the Texas frontier : notorious killings and celebrated trials
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Getting away with murder on the Texas frontier : notorious killings and celebrated trials / Bill Neal ; foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken.
ISBN
9780896725799 (cloth : alk. paper)
0896725790 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2006.
Physical Description
xix, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Longtime Texas prosecutor and defense attorney mines trial records and other primary sources to analyze murder trials from 1880 through WWI in West Texas and Oklahoma. Addresses not only legal and illegal ploys but also inherent pitfalls for a nascent criminal justice system in a frontier society. Historical photographs"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references(pages 247-295) and index.
Contents
The unlikely saviors of Thomas J. Fulcher
The 1896 Wichita Falls bank robbery
The 1890s Wells Fargo murder trials
Pardon me, please
Murder and mayhem in the Knox County courthouse
Strychnine in the bride's flour
And the perpetrator walked.
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