[Rarebooks] fs-Ax-Murder

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer:

[ALLEGED AX-MURDER].  Report of the Trial of Leavitt Alley,
Indicted for the Murder of Abijah Ellis, in the Supreme Judicial
Court of Massachusetts. Reported by Franklin Fiske Heard. McDade 5. Little, 
Brown, and Company, Boston, 1875.  Original brown cloth,
gilt, rubbed and chafed, light browning; a good copy. [72688 L82]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=72688
                                                          $ 150.00

Only edition of the only report of the trial for a still unsolved
ax-murder, replete with circumstantial evidence including the
forensic issue of the difference between horse blood and human
blood; with Heard's valuable substantive analysis appended.

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