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Deadly swindle : an 1890 murder in backwoods Ontario that gripped the world /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Radforth, Ian Walter, 1952- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2024]
Series:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
Subjects:
Birchall, Reginald, > 1866-1890.
Benwell, Frederick Cornwallis, > 1865-1890.
Swindlers and swindling > Ontario > Case studies.
Murder > Ontario > Case studies.
Trials (Murder) > Ontario > Woodstock > Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-Title Page
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Principal Characters in the Benwell-Birchall Case
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Murder Mystery
  • 3 Arrests at Niagara
  • 4 The Net Tightens
  • 5 In Woodstock Jail
  • 6 Pelly's Story
  • 7 The Great Detective?
  • 8 The Trial Begins
  • 9 The Defence and Conclusion
  • 10 Aftermath of the Trial
  • 11 Birchall's Own Story
  • 12 Pleading for Mercy
  • 13 The Hanging
  • 14 A Compelling Story
  • 15 Epilogue
  • Notes
  • List of Newspapers Cited
  • Index