Edmund Pearson
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a reporter at large ·
REPORTER AT LARGE dealing with cases of circumstantial evidence. One case was that of Professor Webster, in 1850. The Professor, an elderly and respectable…
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REPORTER AT LARGE. Tells of the "Murder Trust" that collected in Tony Marino speakeasy at 3804 Third Avenue. They picked out Michael Malloy, an old …
a reporter at large ·
Tells of the case of Jessie Costello who was accused of poisoning her husband with cyanide of potassium which she said she had bought to clean the kitchen …
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Edmund Pearson on Lizzie Borden, who was tried for and acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother with a hatchet blade, in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892.
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Tells of the trial of Sophie May Burns and Dillis, alias Shakespeare. Amos Peters who ran a speakeasy in Harlem was the state's witness in the case …