REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF PROF. JOHN W. WEBSTER, INDICTED FOR THE MURDER OF DR. GEORGE PARKMAN Before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Holden at Boston, On Tuesday, March 19, 1850

Softcover. The murder in the Harvard Medical School of Dr. George Parkman, a prominent Bostonian and Harvard alumnus, by Professor John W. Webster was, in the words of Edmund Pearson "America's classic murder." Webster was condemned to hang. Before his execution he admitted killing Parkman, but claimed that it was unpremeditated. He said he struck his creditor down with a heavy root lying nearby when he was provoked by the doctor's taunts and threats to have him fired. Illus. in text + Appendix. 314pp. 8vo. softcover. This edition contains, in an Appendix, the verdict of the Coroner's Jury, the deposition of Dr. Martin Gay, and other 'valuable and interesting papers, not contained in any other edition.' From the library of Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. (McDade 1062 makes no mention of this revised edn.) With tiny label to tp, sunned edges and eps plus sp. and outer edges of covers. Vg.