Edmund Pearson
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REPORTER AT LARGE dealing with cases of circumstantial evidence. One case was that of Professor Webster, in 1850. The Professor, an elderly and respectable…
REPORTER AT LARGE. Tells of the "Murder Trust" that collected in Tony Marino speakeasy at 3804 Third Avenue. They picked out Michael Malloy, an old …
Tells of the case of Jessie Costello who was accused of poisoning her husband with cyanide of potassium which she said she had bought to clean the kitchen …
Edmund Pearson on Lizzie Borden, who was tried for and acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother with a hatchet blade, in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892.
Tells of the trial of Sophie May Burns and Dillis, alias Shakespeare. Amos Peters who ran a speakeasy in Harlem was the state's witness in the case …