The Lazier murder: Prince Edward County, 1884
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Beteilige Person: Sharpe, Robert J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press c2011 (2012)
Schriftenreihe:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series
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Links:https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442693418?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442693418?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442693418?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442693418?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442693418?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442693418?locatt=mode:legacy
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Crime -- Chapter 3 Hugh McKinnon: Detective -- Chapter 4 A Place Apart -- Chapter 5 Coroner's Inquest -- Chapter 6 Committal Proceedings -- Chapter 7 Picton Spring Assizes, 1884 -- Chapter 8 Surprise Evidence -- Chapter 9 The Defence -- Chapter 10 Verdict -- Chapter 11 Last Hope -- Chapter 12 Pleas for Mercy -- Chapter 13 The Day of Execution Approaches -- Chapter 14 Community Conscience
"In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse. Three local men, pleading innocence from start to finish, were arrested and charged with his murder. Two of them - Joseph Thomset and David Lowder - were sentenced to death by a jury of local citizens the following May. Nevertheless, appalled community members believed at least one of them to be innocent - even pleading with prime minister John A. Macdonald to spare them from the gallows
The Lazier Murder explores a community's response to a crime, as well as the realization that it may have contributed to a miscarriage of justice. Robert J. Sharpe reconstructs and contextualizes the case using archival and contemporary newspaper accounts. The Lazier Murder provides an insightful look at the changing pattern of criminal justice in nineteenth-century Canada, and the enduring problem of wrongful convictions."--Pub. desc
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 189 p., [12] p. of plates)
ISBN:9781442693418
144269341X