Full Title: The Truth About Oscar Slater [With the Prisoner's Own Story] Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred ...
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Full Title: The Truth About Oscar Slater [With the Prisoner's Own Story] Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial. Trials provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Monograph Harvard Law School Library London, S.W.: The Psychic Press 2, Victoria Street, c.1926
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Near fine in very good(+) jacket. Introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 8vo, blue cloth. London: The Psychic Pres, n.d. (1926). First Edition. An account of a famous miscarriage of judgement in Scotland. Conan Doyle was involved in helping to clear the man who was wrongfully convicted of murder, a case in which anti-semetism played a part. Enclosed is a postcard, written on both sides and signed by Conan Doyle, to a Mr. Reade, referring to the case "....It is clear that the Advocate General...was told about the facts by the police & deliberately manipulated them...He would, I think, have truly been a murderer had OS been hanged. ) About 90 words. Ownership signature and bookplate of Vincent Starrett.