Famous Trials: Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Field and Gray, George Joseph Smith, Ronald True v. 2 (Penguin crime)

by HarryHodge (Editor)

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  1948

  $12.30

  The four trials recorded in this book are particularly compelling, partly because of the wealth of forensic skills they demonstrate and partly because of the successful piecing together of scanty evidence. Herbert Armstrong's generosity with arsenic aroused suspicion as to the true cause of his wife's death. Field and Gray were two bumbling, inept murderers who failed even to receive the mercy the jury requested. George Smith invented numerous identities and married, deserted or murdered for money, while Ronald True was mentally deranged besides being dangerous and greedy.

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  1954

  $3.38

  The five court cases in this volume cover the crimes of treason and murder by means of poison, throat-cutting and strangling. At the time, they were each the focus of acute public interest. Harold Greenwood's wife dies showing some of the symptons of poisoning, but his main crime seemed to be his remarriage within four months. Robert Wood, accused of the murder of a prostitute, was also defended by Marshall Hall, who used all his considerable skills in both cases. There was no such ambiguity of evidence at the trial of D. Pritchard, who was the last man to be publicly hanged in Glasgow. Of the two men accused in the bizarre Chalk Pit murder , one became Broadmoor's richest inmate. Finally, the treason trial of William Joyce - wartime's Lord Haw-Haw - set a precedent in legal history.