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Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier By Neal TTU Press 1st Ed. SIGNED
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- ISBN
- 9780896725799
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-10
0896725790
ISBN-13
9780896725799
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52418166
Product Key Features
Book Title
Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier : Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), General, Legal History
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, True Crime, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-005618
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
364.152/309764
Synopsis
In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worth s finest hotel, a young man kills an old gentleman in cold blood in the middle of the lobby. The verdict in both of these murderers trials? Not guilty. The explanation? This is Texas. Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justice relied less on written statutes than on common sense, grass-roots fairness, and vague notions of folk law drawn from the Old South s Victorian code of chivalry and honor. In this very different time and place, a murderer might go free based on the following reasoning: The son-of-a-gun is guilty all right, but we must turn him loose. He owes me for a pair of boots, and if we convict him I ll never get my money. Inexperienced prosecutors, a lack of modern crime-detection methods, unavailability of witnesses, an acceptance of violence in society, and a laissez-faire attitude toward trial tactics all conspired to make guilty verdicts a rarity.CONTENTSThe Unlikely Saviors of Thomas J. Fulcher - The 1896 Wichita Falls Bank Robbery - The 1890s Wells Fargo Murder Trials - Pardon Me, Please - More Scandalous Adventures of the Isaacs Family - Murder and Mayhem in the Knox County Courthouse - Strychnine in the Bride s Flour - . . . And the Perpetrator Walked", In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worth's finest hotel, a young man kills an old gentleman in cold blood in the middle of the lobby. The verdict in both of these murderers' trials? Not guilty. The explanation? "This is Texas."Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justice relied less on written statutes than on common sense, grass-roots fairness, and vague notions of folk law drawn from the Old South's Victorian code of chivalry and honor. In this very different time and place, a murderer might go free based on the following reasoning: "The son-of-a-gun is guilty all right, but we must turn him loose. He owes me for a pair of boots, and if we convict him I'll never get my money." Inexperienced prosecutors, a lack of modern crime-detection methods, unavailability of witnesses, an acceptance of violence in society, and a laissez-faire attitude toward trial tactics all conspired to make guilty verdicts a rarity.CONTENTSThe Unlikely Saviors of Thomas J. Fulcher The 1896 Wichita Falls Bank Robbery The 1890s Wells Fargo Murder Trials Pardon Me, Please! More Scandalous Adventures of the Isaacs Family Murder and Mayhem in the Knox County Courthouse Strychnine in the Bride's Flour . . . And the Perpetrator Walked, Winner of the 2008 Rupert N. Richardson AwardBook of the Year by the National Association for Outlaw and Lawmen History
LC Classification Number
KF221.M8N43 2006
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