Title:
Getting away with murder on the Texas frontier : notorious killings & celebrated trials / Bill Neal ; foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken.
Author:
Neal, Bill, 1936-
Publication Information:
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, ©2006.
Call Number:
KF221.M8 N43 2006
Abstract:
"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.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006005618.htmlBook review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f2y7-aa
ISBN:
9780896725799
9780896726512
Physical Description:
xix, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
The coming of the law -- The unlikely saviors of Thomas J. Fulcher -- The 1896 Wichita Falls bank robbery -- The 1890s Wells Fargo murder trials -- Pardon me, please! -- More scandalous adventures of the Isaacs family -- Murder and mayhem in the Knox County courthouse -- Strychnine in the bride's flour -- And the perpetrator walked.
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