An unjust hanging : sent to the gallows by folly, ignorance and a doctor's selfish cruelty
Halliwell, Dave2012
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One winter’s evening in 1821, stung by his girlfriend Eliza’s rejection, 17-year-old John Horwood picked up a stone and flung it at her. That thoughtless act of fury was to cost both those young people their lives. A prominent surgeon who clearly placed his own reputation above the care of his patients carried out an operation on Eliza which he must have known would probably kill her – as it did. Smith kept her skull for teaching purposes, and when John was sentenced to hang for her death he made sure the youth’s body would be his to dismember.
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Memories, 2012.
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156 p.
ISBN:
9781909020665 (pbk)190902664 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
3512523
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