In 1806 thousands descended on Lenox, Massachusetts, for the hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his 13-year-old daughter, Betsy. Using the trial report to reconstruct the crime and drawing on Wheeler's jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history, the authors illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America.
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In 1806 thousands descended on Lenox, Massachusetts, for the hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his 13-year-old daughter, Betsy. Using the trial report to reconstruct the crime and drawing on Wheeler's jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history, the authors illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 388 pages, illustrated. "In 1806, an anxious crowd of thousand descended upon Lenox, Massachusetts-, for the public hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Betsy. Not all witnesses believed justice has triumphed. The death penalty has become controversial, no one had been executed for rape in Massachusetts in more than a quarter century." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.
