The Lazier murder : Prince Edward County, 1884 / Robert J. Sharpe.
2011
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Title
The Lazier murder : Prince Edward County, 1884 / Robert J. Sharpe.
Published
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Call Number
HV6535.C33 P75 2011
ISBN
9781442644212
1442644214
1442644214
Description
viii, 189 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)727326077
Summary
"In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse. Three local men, pleading innocence from start to finish, were arrested and charged with his murder. Two of them - Joseph Thomset and David Lowder - were sentenced to death by a jury of local citizens the following May. Nevertheless, appalled community members believed at least one of them to be innocent - even pleading with prime minister John A. Macdonald to spare them from the gallows.
The Lazier Murder explores a community's response to a crime, as well as the realization that it may have contributed to a miscarriage of justice. Robert J. Sharpe reconstructs and contextualizes the case using archival and contemporary newspaper accounts. The Lazier Murder provides an insightful look at the changing pattern of criminal justice in nineteenth-century Canada, and the enduring problem of wrongful convictions."--pub. desc.
The Lazier Murder explores a community's response to a crime, as well as the realization that it may have contributed to a miscarriage of justice. Robert J. Sharpe reconstructs and contextualizes the case using archival and contemporary newspaper accounts. The Lazier Murder provides an insightful look at the changing pattern of criminal justice in nineteenth-century Canada, and the enduring problem of wrongful convictions."--pub. desc.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Abbreviations
xi
Map
xii
1.
Introduction
3
2.
The Crime
7
3.
Hugh McKinnon, Detective
20
4.
A Place Apart
33
5.
Coroner's Inquest
41
6.
Committal Proceedings
47
7.
Picton Spring Assizes, 1884
56
8.
Surprise Evidence
74
9.
The Defence
83
10.
Verdict
103
11.
Last Hope
115
12.
Pleas for Mercy
130
13.
The Day of Execution Approaches
139
14.
Community Conscience
150
Notes
161
Index
185