American Criminal Trials: Volumes I and II

By Peleg W. Chandler

The publication of the following volumes may be regarded as an experiment, which, if successful, will demonstrate that the most important and interesting criminal trials, which have taken place in this country, may be rendered acceptable to the general reader, in the form of abridged narrations divested of the technicalities of legal proceedings. In selecting the cases for publication, the author has been chiefly governed by a desire to present those, which might be interesting to the American reader, not only as illustrative of the morals and manners, but as connected with the religious or political history, of the periods in which they occurred; and, in preparing them for the press, he has attempted to give an account of each case, after a careful examination of all the facts which might throw light upon it, in the form of a narrative accompanied by such general remarks and reflections as naturally suggested themselves to his mind; no other idea of completeness or unity of purpose being entertained, so far as the present work is concerned, than that every trial should contain all the facts, necessary to make it intelligible by itself and without reference to any other. Trial of Anne Hutchinson; Trial of the Quakers; Trial for Witchcraft (Salem); Trial of Thomas Maule; Trial of Peter Zenger; Trial of Certain Negroes for a Conspiracy to Burn the City and Murder the Inhabitants (New York); Trial of Jacob Leisler; Trial of Nicholas Bayard; and more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1518898831
• ISBN13: 9781518898839
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.2" x 6.0"