The Chicago's Trunk Murder: Law and Justice at the Turn of the Century
On November 14, 1885, a cold autumn day in the City of Broad Shoulders, an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred watched as three Sicilians Giovanni Azari, Agostino Gelardi, and Ignazio Silvestri were hanged in the courtyard of the Cook County Jail. The three had only recently come to the city, but not long after they were arrested, tried, and convicted for murdering Filippo Caruso, stuffing his body into a trunk, and shipping it to Pittsburgh.Historian and legal expert Elizabeth Dale brings the Trunk Murder case vividly back to life, painting an indelible portrait of nineteenth-century Chicago, ethnic life there, and a murder trial gone seri…
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- ISBN: 978-0-87580-440-8
- EAN: 9780875804408
- Produktnummer: 11359602
- Verlag: Northern Illinois Univ
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 155 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.3 cm 431 g
- Gewicht: 431
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Elizabeth Dale is Associate Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Law at the University of Florida. She isthe author of The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis.
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