AMERICAN CRIMINAL TRIALS Volume II

Hardback. US reprint. First pub. 1840-1844. Originally covering a period of over 150 years and containing the most interesting trials that took place, from the first establishment of judicial tribunals in the country, until after the adoption of the constitution of the United States. They illustrate the morals and manners, or the religious and political history of this period. Contents include : Bathsheba Spooner and Others (1778); Colonel Henley (1778); Major Andre (1780); Joshua H. Smith (1780); The Rhode Island Judges (1786); John Hauer and Others (1798). With Appendix and Notes. 387pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr. F.