Case of Arson -- Kentucky Practice
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Title
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Case of Arson -- Kentucky Practice
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Publisher
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F.J. Waldo
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Place
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Vevay, IN
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Date
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19 Aug 1857
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Language
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English
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Temporal coverage
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1857-1860
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Description
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An excerpt from the article, "At a term of the Dearborn Circuit Court, a colored boy was indicted for arson in burning the barn of General Pike, near Lawrenceburgh. I was attorney for the State, and Messrs. Vawter and Armstrong, of Boone County, Kentucky, appeared for the prisoner, under some understanding that they were to have the boy for a term of years upon his acquittal. The evidence of the burning was first given to the jury. I then proceeded to give evidence of the confessions of the boy while the barn was burning. - The boy, being suspected by the neighbors, was seized and threatened, that unless he confessed and told all about it, he would be thrown into the flames and burnt alive. Under these threats the boy confessed, and told where he threw the chunk with which he had carried the fire into the barn. [...] The prisoner was convicted and sentenced five years to the penitentiary."
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Accessed online at Hoosier State Chronicles
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Bibliographic citation
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About the Indiana Reville. Library of Congress, <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047729/>