Remarkable California murder case ends with death verdict
Emma McVicar, also known as Le Doux, is found guilty of first degree murder for killing her husband Albert McVicar by morphine laced poison placed in a trunk affair. The Stockton jury, on first ballot, convicts without mercy recommendation, leading to a death sentence by hanging.
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Stockton
Cal
Emma McVicar
le Doux
California
Albert M. McVicar
Mary Head
Albert McVicar
Bixby
Ariz
Eugene le Doux
McVicar
Jackson
Ral
Jamestown
A. M. McVicar
Henley
San Miinecisco
Healey
San Francisco
Louis Quartorze
Miller
Worthy
Aliller
Wealey
Sonora
Murderers in France and Curious Legal Puzzles Abroad
Article reviews archaic and anomalous laws in various countries. It cites France’s fifteen year rule on untried murders, foreign legations’ inviolability, and a husband unable to prosecute his wife for crimes she commits upon marriage as examples of legal absurdities.
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Pearson
Senor Balmaceda
Chilian Legation
Brussels
Luiz Waddington
Waddington
Legation
Arm of Justice
France
Paris
Chester
A. M. Binet
Br. Binet
M. Binet Kent
The Disappearance of Godfrey Staunton
Sherlock Holmes investigates the sudden vanishing of Godfrey Staunton, heir to Lord Mount James. The case centers on a cryptic telegram and a bearded stranger, leading Holmes to Cambridge and a wary family circle as he pieces together motive, timing, and possible kidnappers.
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Mr. Holmes
Rugger
Cambridge
Varsity
Godfrey Staunton
Oxford
Bentley
Godfrey
Strand
Sherlock Tolmes
Lord Mount-Jaimes
Lord Mount-James
Lord Mount-Jam
Wingland
Lord Mount- James
Roine
Porter
Holmes
Watson
Cyril Overton
Gyerten
Sherlock Holmes
Staaunton
Staunton
Detective
Sherlock Fformes
Mount James
Lord Mount James
Overton
King’s Cross Station
Camnbridge
Gray’s Inn Road
New York Still a Country Town
From the New York Evening Post the city still shows rural traits with 21 dead animals found in three months of 1906 and 18 584 stray cars and dogs taken to the public pounds. The notice notes pigs coats and sheen listed among carcasses and mentions an auction sale of grass near the Croton reservoir.
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New York
New York Evening Post
New Croton
He Didn't Meet It The Tenderfoot The Westerner
A fragmented note describes a sheriff overtaking suspects in a death case titled He Didn’t Meet It The Tenderfoot The Westerner with unclear details about Alkali’s death. The readable lines imply pursuit and a fatal encounter but lack confirmed names or places.
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Trians
A. Conan Doyle
Collier's Weekly
McClure, Phillipe
Squilbob
New York Sun
Henrietta
Ginger
Louilbob
Baltimore
Este
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