Theodosius Botkin Defendant

Trial of Theodosius Botkin

• Author(s): Theodosius Botkin (defendant.)

• Categories: Impeachments

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1891
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Independenceof Federal Judges

• Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1971
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

• Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary

• Categories: Administrative procedure

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1971
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Senate and House Journals

• Author(s): Kansas. Legislature. Senate

• Categories: Kansas

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1891
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Chicago Trunk Murder

• Author(s): Elizabeth Dale

• Categories: True Crime

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2011-09-01
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• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press

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 seriously awry. Along the way she reveals a Windy Cit...