Ugly prey : an innocent woman and the death sentence that scandalized jazz age Chicago
Record details
- ISBN: 1613736991
- ISBN: 9781613736999
- ISBN: 1613736975
- ISBN: 9781613736975
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Front Cover -- Front Flip -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Key Figures -- Part I: Guilty -- 1. That Means a Hanging! -- 2. Give Them the Extreme Penalty -- 3. I'll Tell Her If I Have To -- 4. Send a Woman to the Gallows? How Could You? -- Part II: The Year Before -- 5. Gone -- 6. The Crime in Dasso's Head -- 7. The Widow's Award -- 8. We Laid Him on the Prairie -- Part III: To Shield and Protect -- 9. Unraveling the Safety Nets -- 10. You Would Have Wanted It Too -- 11. I Ought Not Tell You How to Try Your Case -- 12. You Don't Know What Burdens I Am Carrying -- 13. The White Widow -- 14. Do You Love Your Mother? -- 15. Just the Bare Skull -- 16. He Took the Body on His Back -- 17. Oh, Dough -- 18. Sabella on the Stand -- 19. Don't Think of Her as a Woman -- Part IV: Ninety-Five Days to Die -- 20. The Guilt of Others -- 21. Eighty-Nine and Ninety -- 22. The Surratt Effect -- 23. Dust of the Feet -- 24. You've Got Me -- 25. Given Under My Hand and Seal -- Part V: Passing Through the Fire -- 26. Monkey Meets a Tiger -- 27. My God! What Did They Do? -- 28. Slumming in the Police Station -- 29. Hula Lou, the Gal Who Can't Be True -- 30. A Delicate Condition -- 31. Goldfish -- 32. A Hanging Case -- Epilogue: All That Jazz -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Notes -- Index -- Back Flip: About the Author -- Back Cover. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 3, 2017). |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Trials, litigation, etc. |