The Trial Of Emma Cunningham

Author : Brian Jenkins
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638284
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trial of Emma Cunningham written by Brian Jenkins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  The alleged 1857 murder of a wealthy Bond Street dentist by Emma Cunningham, a mature widow he was believed to be sexually involved with, served to distract many New Yorkers from the deepening national crisis over slavery in the United States. Public anxieties seemed well founded--domestic murders committed by women were believed to be increasing sharply, jeopardizing society's patriarchal structure. The penny press created public demand for a swift solution. The inadequacy of the city police, complicated by the state's decision to install a new force, resulted in the rival forces battling it out on the streets. Elected coroners conducting inquests, and elected D.A.s prosecuting alleged culprits, fed a tendency to rush to judgment. New York juries, all men, were reluctant to send a middle class woman to the gallows. At trial, Cunningham proved a formidable and imaginative member of the so-called weaker sex and was acquitted. This reexamination places the story in its social and political context.

Author : Henry Lauren Clinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speech of Henry L. Clinton, to the Jury, on the Part of the Defence, on the Trial of Emma Augusta Burdell, (otherwise Called Cunningham) written by Henry Lauren Clinton and published by . This book was released on 1859* with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin P. Feldman
Publisher : New York Wanderer Press
ISBN 13 : 9780979517501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Butchery on Bond Street written by Benjamin P. Feldman and published by New York Wanderer Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1857 Dr. Harvey Burdell, a young dentist, was murdered; his lover, Emma Hempstead Cunningham, a widow with five children, was accused of his brutal murder. Feldman presents a well-researched book that explores the gender politics and legal aspects of the dentist's murder and Emma Cunningham's trial.

Author : Marie Carter
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531506267
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortimer and the Witches written by Marie Carter and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate and report on the fortune tellers of New York City’s tenements and slums. When his articles were published in book form in 1858, they catalyzed a series of arrests that both scandalized and delighted the public. But Mortimer was guarding some secrets of his own, and in many ways, his own life paralleled the lives of the women he both visited and vilified. In Mortimer and the Witches, author Marie Carter examines the lives of these marginalized fortune tellers while also detailing Mortimer Thomson’s peculiar and complicated biography. Living primarily in the poor section of the Lower East Side, nineteenth-century fortune tellers offered their clients answers to all questions in astrology, love, and law matters. They promised to cure ailments. They spoke of loved ones from beyond the grave. Yet Doesticks saw them as the worst of the worst evil-doers. His investigative reporting aimed to stop unsuspecting young women from seeking the corrupt soothsaying advice of these so-called clairvoyants and to expose the absurd and woefully inaccurate predictions of these “witches.” Marie Carter views these stories of working-class, immigrant women with more depth than Doesticks’s mocking articles would allow. In her analysis and discussion, she presents them as three-dimensional figures rather than the caricatures Doesticks made them out to be. What other professions at that time allowed women the kind of autonomy afforded by fortune-telling? Their eager customers, many of whom were newly arrived immigrants trying to navigate life in a new country, weren’t as naive and gullible as Doesticks made them out to be. They were often in need of guidance, seeking out the advice of someone who had life experience to offer or simply enjoying the entertainment and attention. Mortimer and the Witches offers new insight into the neglected histories of working-class fortune tellers and the creative ways that they tried to make a living when options were limited for them.

Author : Ellen Horan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061969370
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 31 Bond Street written by Ellen Horan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-03-13 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell? Though there are no witnesses and no clues, fingers point to Emma Cunningham, the refined, pale-skinned widow who managed Burdell’s house and his servants. Rumored to be a black-hearted gold digger with designs on the doctor’s name andfortune, Emma is immediately put under house arrest during a murder investigation. A swift conviction is sure to catapult flamboyant district attorney Abraham Oakey Hall into the mayor’s seat. But one formidable obstacle stands in his way: the defense attorney Henry Clinton. Committed to justice and the law, Clinton will aid the vulnerable widow in her desperate fight to save herself from the gallows. Set in 1857 New York, this gripping mystery is also a richly detailed excavation of a lost age. Horan vividly re-creates a tumultuous era characterized by a sensationalist press, aggressive new wealth, a booming real-estate market, corruption, racial conflict, economic inequality between men and women, and the erosion of the old codes of behavior. A tale of murder, sex, greed, and politics, this spellbinding narrative transports readers to a time that eerily echoes our own.

Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1260 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs. written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: 197 NY 520 (Soper v. Butler) 197 NY 522 (Steinway v. Steinway) 196 NY 482 (Sweet v. Perkins) 196 NY 487 (Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. Haven) 197 NY 521 (Wilkin v. Cunningham) 197 NY 560 (Wilkin v. Cunningham) 197 NY 545 (Young v. Du Bois)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
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Total Pages : 932 pages
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Author : Sara Grimes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
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Download or read book West Lake Reflections written by Sara Grimes and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Drew Gray
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500775729
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder Maps: Crime Scenes Revisited. Phrenology to Fingerprint. 1811-1911 written by Drew Gray and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid and intriguing, Murder Maps plots the nineteenth century’s most dramatic murders from around the world onto meticulous diagrams and period maps, and recounts the brilliant detective work that solved the cases. Elegant period maps and compelling crime analysis illuminate this disquieting volume, which reexamines the most captivating and intriguing homicides of the nineteenth century. Organized geographically, the elements of each murder—from the prior movements of both killer and victim to the eventual location of the body—are meticulously replotted using archival maps and bespoke plans, taking readers on a perilous journey around the murder hot spots of the world. From the “French Ripper,” Joseph Vacher, who roamed the French countryside brutally mutilating and murdering at least eleven people, to H. H. Holmes and his “Murder Castle” in Chicago, crime expert Dr. Drew Gray recounts the details of each case. His forensic examination uncovers both the horrifying details of the crimes themselves and the ingenious detective work that led to the capture of the murderers. Throughout the book, Gray highlights the development of police methods and technology, from the introduction of the police whistle to the standardization of the mug shot to the use of fingerprinting and radiotelegraphy in apprehending criminals. Vividly recreating over one hundred individual murder cases through historic maps, photographs, newspaper excerpts, court papers, and police reports, Murder Maps is perfect for everyone interested in criminal history, forensics, or the macabre.