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[Newspaper clippings and miscellaneous material on benefit of clergy and wager of law].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Lea Collection E.4.28
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Privilegium fori.
- Torture.
- Physical Description:
- 14 pieces ; 4-29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [S.l. :] [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1867-1884]
- Contents:
- A barbarous ordeal (1867)
- Superstition (1867)
- Suspected criminals put to the torture in Texas (1867)
- Judicial torture (1868)
- The murder of Miss Lumsden in Orange County, Va. (1868)
- Revival of the "ghee ordeal" in India (1868)
- The story of Don Carlos (1869)
- Torture in Switzerland (1870)
- Execution of a Chinese murderer (1871)
- Legal torture in Japan (1879)
- An outrage on an American citizen (1879)
- As to the manner in which Nihilists are treated ... (1880)
- The Mennonites of Pennsylvania ... (1884)
- [Folded leaf of ms. notes].
- Notes:
- A collection of newspaper clippings and 1 ms. leaf on benefit of clergy and wager of law; most items dated between 1867 and 1884.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- OCLC:
- 317752124
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