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Sympathy for the devil : the Emmanuel Baptist murders of old San Francisco / Virginia A. McConnell.

Van Pelt Library HV6534.S3 M33 2001
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Author/Creator:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Case studies.
Physical Description:
xix, 334 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.
Summary:
Details the 1895 arrest and trial of a medical student for the grisly murder of two young women inside San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist Church in what the press of the day characterized as a reenactment of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Contents:
  • 1 In Plain Sight 1
  • 2 Missing! 13
  • 3 The Durrants of Toronto 25
  • 4 The Little Quakeress 45
  • 5 Holy Week Horrors 65
  • 6 The Prince of City Prison 81
  • 7 The Inquest, and a Trial by "Noose" paper 97
  • 8 Knee-deep in the Hoopla: The Road to Trial 133
  • 9 The Case for the Prosecution 155
  • 10 Theo Takes the Stand 183
  • 11 "Mamma's Sweetheart": Appeals and an Execution 217
  • 12 Killer Angel: Murder in the Emmanuel Baptist Church 255.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-326) and index.
ISBN:
027597054X
OCLC:
47658796

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