REPORT OF THE CASE OF GEO. C. HERSEY, INDICTED FOR THE MURDER OF BETSY FRANCES TIRRELL, Before The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts;....

Hardback. Hersey had been living in Weymouth with the Tirrell family since the sudden death four months before of their daughter and his fiancee Mary Tirrell. A second daughter Betsy became pregnant by him, and he gave her a drug which he represented would cause an abortion. Actually it was strychnine which he had obtained in Boston allegedly to poison a dog. He was convicted and hanged. The Preface claims this to be the only (in 1862) published trial in which strychnine was detected by analysis in the deceased. With Index. 267pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Ragged edges to two pp., browned edges, sl. damage to head of sp., covers a little shelfworn. Nr. Vg. (McDade 472).