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Collins, Paul, 1969-
Subjects
Parkman, George, 1790-1849.
Webster, John White, 1793-1850.
Harvard University -- History -- 19th century.
Murder -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies.
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Collins, Paul, 1969-
Parkman, George, 1790-1849.
Webster, John White, 1793-1850.
Harvard University -- History -- 19th century.
Murder -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies.
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Blood
&
ivy
: the
1849
murder
that
scandalized
Harvard
/ Paul Collins.
by
Collins, Paul, 1969-
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
Call #:
364.1523092 C712b
Subjects
Parkman, George, 1790-1849.
Webster, John White, 1793-1850.
Harvard
University -- History -- 19th century.
Murder
-- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies.
ISBN:
9780393245165 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Blood
and
ivy
: the
1849
murder
that
scandalized
Harvard
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xix, 347 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pgs. 325-335) and index.
Contents:
I: Scenes of the crime. The way into
Harvard
; On pins and crowbars ; The skeleton box ; The great world goes clanging on -- II: The victim. A bad business ; A gentleman unknown ; The yellow envelope ; Some aberration of mind -- III: The suspect. Thanksgiving by the fire ; The final reward ; Wickedness takes eleven ; "I shal be kiled" -- IV: The accused. Pistols drawn ; A ruined man ; Old Grimes is dead ; A lifetime of uprightness -- V: The trial. In the dead house ; Good men and true ; The catalog of bones ; Mesmeric revelation -- VI: The verdict. Twelve men in Massachusetts ; Law manufactured for the occasion ; A man in error ; Closing hours.
Summary:
Traces the scandalous
murder
of a
Harvard
Medical School graduate and the ensuing trial that riveted mid-nineteenth-century America, exploring how the case established important precedents in medical forensics and the definition of reasonable doubt.
"On November 23rd of
1849
, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater,
Harvard
Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and offered hefty rewards as leads put the elusive Dr. Parkman at sea or hiding in Manhattan. But one
Harvard
janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never even left the Medical School building alive. His shocking discoveries in a chemistry professor's laboratory engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. John White Webster. A baffling case of red herrings, grave robbery, and dismemberment--of
Harvard
's greatest doctors investigating one of their own, for a
murder
hidden in a building full of cadavers--it became a landmark case in the use of medical forensics and the meaning of reasonable doubt. Paul Collins brings nineteenth-century Boston back to life in vivid detail, weaving together newspaper accounts, letters, journals, court transcripts, and memoirs from this groundbreaking case. Rich in characters and evocative in atmosphere,
Blood
&
Ivy
explores the fatal entanglement of new science and old money in one of America's greatest
murder
mysteries."--Dust jacket.
Genre:
True crime.
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