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

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"In February 1890, in a remote swamp in rural southwestern Ontario, two woodsmen discovered the frozen body of a well-dressed young stranger killed by two bullets to the back of the head. Before long, police laid a murder charge on Reginald Birchall, a handsome, young gentleman from London just...

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Main Author: Radforth, Ian Walter, 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : 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 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Benwell, Frederick Cornwallis, > 1865-1890.
Birchall, Reginald, > 1866-1890 > Procès, instances, etc.
Swindlers and swindling > Ontario > Case studies.
Murder > Ontario > Case studies.
Trials (Murder) > Ontario > Woodstock > Case studies.
Escroqueries > Ontario > Études de cas.
Meurtre > Ontario > Études de cas.
Procès (Meurtre) > Ontario > Woodstock > Études de cas.
Case studies.
Études de cas.
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