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Famous Trials 8 : Captain William Kidd, Dr Thomas Smethurst, Alfred Arthur Rouse, Patrick Carraher, John Thomas Straffen by James H. Hodge is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From piracy to child-murder, Famous Trials 8 covers three centuries in its five cases. This volume opens with Captain Kidd, a respectable shipowner who turned pirate after he was fifty. Though undoubtedly a robber and a murderer, he does not come across as the black-hearted criminal of legend.Dr Smethurst was found guilty of poisoning the woman he had married bigamously. At her inquest, the discovery that she was pregnant, along with only slight traces of poisonous substances being found, made a strong case for the defence. Conflicting evidence secured a reprieve for Dr Smethurst.Rouse, on the other hand, who engineered the Blazing Car Mystery', was patently guilty. His tampering with the engine of a Morris Minor, and the subsequent fire it caused, led him to be easily caught, despite the fact that he was a careful planner.Finally, this volume covers the trials of Patrick Carraher, the Glasgow slum murderer, whose guilt was never in any doubt, and describes the gruesome episode of Straffen, who escaped from Broadmoor and murdered a five-year-old girl as the culmination of years of mental disease.

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Author

James H. Hodge

Publisher

Penguin

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Biography, Memoir, True Crime