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The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West
The Trials of Laura Fair Sex Murder and Insanity in the Victorian West
Author: Carole Haber
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781469607580
ISBN-10: 1469607581
Publication Date: 8/1/2013
Pages: 328
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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