This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...or the dark and dreary walls of prison cells. In every murder case, the sociologist, the criminologist, the judge and the lawyer--in fact, every man or woman who attends the trial, will find open before him many new phases of human life. The first celebrated murder case tried in Dodge County was the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...or the dark and dreary walls of prison cells. In every murder case, the sociologist, the criminologist, the judge and the lawyer--in fact, every man or woman who attends the trial, will find open before him many new phases of human life. The first celebrated murder case tried in Dodge County was the case of Dr. George J. St. Louis, charged with murdering his wife by wilfully and maliciously administering to her arsenic. There remain but few official records and nearly all of the witnesses and actors have passed on. The crime was committed on the 30th day of May, 1877, and on the 2d day of June, 1877, a coroner's inquest was held in Fremont by Doctor Crabbs, the medical partner of Doctor St. Louis. George Blanchard, Peter Denny, E. C. Usher, D. B. Short, M. H. Hinman and George Marshall composed the coroner's jurv. The preliminary hearing was held before L. M. Keene, county judge, and the defendant was bound over to the District Court for trial. The defendant was tried in the District Court of Dodge County in the months of January and February, 1878. The prosecution was conducted by N. B. Reese, district attorney and later chief justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Nebraska, who was assisted by Marlow & Munger of Fremont. N. H. Bell of Fremont, John Carrigan of Blair and Charles Brown of Omaha defended St.' Louis. He was put on trial in Dodge County on the 5th day of February, 1878, but the jury did not agree upon a verdict and was discharged. The case was then taken upon a change of venue to Saunders County, where a trial was had in April, 1878. A verdict of murder in the first degree was returned against St. Louis and the date of execution of the sentence of death fixed for September 20, 1878. The judgment...
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