Arsenic and Clam Chowder : Murder in Gilded Age New York

by Livingston, James D.

• ISBN13: 9781438431796
• ISBN10: 1438431791
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair.

Table of Contents

The Death of Evelina Bliss	p. 1
The New York World	p. 13
Mary Alice Almont of the New York Livingstons	p. 27
Promises Breached	p. 39
In the Tombs	p. 59
Twelve Good Men and True	p. 73
Opening of the People's Case	p. 89
The People Rest	p. 103
The Defense	p. 117
Decision	p. 129
Afterwards	p. 145
Reasonable Doubt and Judicial Murder	p. 159
Acknowledgments	p. 169
Sources	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 197
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