50 Famous Trials

viii, 344 pp. CONTENTS: Political or Historical Trials - Queen Anne Boleyn, 1536; Mary, Queen of Scots, 1586; Sir Walter Raleigh, 1603; The Gunpowder Plotters, 1605-6; John Hampden, 1636-7; Charles I of England, 1648; The Papist Plotters, 1678-80; Lady Alice Lisle, 1685; Warren Hastings, 1788-95; Thomas Paine, 1792; J. Thompson Callender, 1800; Robert Emmet, 1803; Aaron Burr, 1807; Andrew Jackson, 1815; The Dred Scott Case, 1847-57; John Brown, 1859; Ex Parte Milligan, 1865-6; Andrew Johnson, 1868; William Sulzer, 1913; Sir Roger Casement, 1916; Eugene Victor Debs, 1918-19. Religious Trials - Socrates, 399 B.C.; John of Arc, 1431; John Thomas Scopes, 1925. Military Trials - Major John Andre, 1780; The Lincoln Conspirators, 1865; Alfred Dreyfus, 1894-1906; Francisco Ferrer, 1909. Civil Trials - The Tilden Will Contest, 1886-91; Laidlaw vs. Sage, 1893-9. Criminal Trials - Captain William Kidd, 1701; Eugene Aram, 1759; Daniel E. Sickles, 1859; The Ku Klux Klan, 1871; William M. Tweed, 1873; The Chicago Anarchists, 1886; Florence Maybrick, 1889; Roland B. Molineux, 1899-1902; Albert T. Patrick, 1902-06; Harry K. Thaw, 1907-08; Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, 1910; Charles Becker, 1912-15; Mendel Beilis, 1913; Leo M. Frank, 1913; Mme. Henriette Caillaux, 1914; The Billings-Mooney Case, 1916-17; The Sacco-Vanzetti Case, 1921-7; The Loeb-Leopold Case, 1924; The Massie-Fortescue Case, 1932; Bruno Richard Hauptmann, 1935.