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Arsenic under the elms : murder in Victorian New Haven

Author: Virginia A McConnell
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Attorney and crime researcher Virgina McConnell provides a fascinating view of Connecticut in Victorian times, as glimpsed through the unrelated, but disturbingly similar murders of two young women near New Haven in the late 1800s." -- Jacket.
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
McConnell, Virginia A., 1942-
Arsenic under the elms.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999
(OCoLC)607393356
Online version:
McConnell, Virginia A., 1942-
Arsenic under the elms.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999
(OCoLC)607925633
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Virginia A McConnell
ISBN: 0275962970 9780275962975
OCLC Number: 40821045
Description: xiv, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Murder of Mary Stannard --
Mary --
The Reverend Herbert H. Hayden --
The Stannard-Hawley Clan --
Discovery: The Rockland Community Takes Over --
Justice Court Trial: Prelude to "The Great Case" --
Interim: Preparing for "The Great Case" --
The Great Case --
Arsenic at Center Stage --
Experts on Parade --
Lay Testimony --
Verdict --
The Belle of New Haven: The Tragedy of Jennie Cramer --
"Drifting with the Tide" --
Jennie, Jimmy, Wall, and Blanche --
Boys Will Be Boys --
An End and a Beginning: Inquest Verdict --
Justice Court Trial in West Haven --
Superior Court Trial in New Haven --
What Happened to Jennie Cramer? --
Aftermath --
The Victims' Families: The Stannards, Hawleys, and Cramers --
The Defendants' Families: The Haydens and Malleys.
Responsibility: Virginia A. McConnell.

Abstract:

"Attorney and crime researcher Virgina McConnell provides a fascinating view of Connecticut in Victorian times, as glimpsed through the unrelated, but disturbingly similar murders of two young women near New Haven in the late 1800s." -- Jacket.

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