"BY THE NECK UNTIL DEAD"

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Preface
  A Word to the Reader
  Chapter I:

White Men's Justice: The Burlesque Demise of John O'Mic (1812)

  Chapter II:

"I Die an Innocent Man": The Gruesome Death of William Beatson (1853)

  Chapter III:

Tamsen Parsons' Long Fatal Love Chase: The Insufferable Dr. Hughes (1865)

  Chapter IV:

Bloody Doings at Olmsted: The Lonesome Death of Rosa Colvin (1866)

  Chapter V:

Shot in His Own Bed: The Murder of David Skinner (1868)

  Chapter VI:

"A Swing For a Swing": Slaughter on Cedar Ave. (1871)

  Chapter VII:

"They Say I've Been Killing Someone": The Butchery of Greenberry Hood (1873)

  Chapter VIII:

"I Am Settling For All Past Wrongs . . .": William Adin's Cross-Town Bloodbath (1875)

  Chapter IX:

"She Is Not Dead To Me": The Fatal Passion of Charlie McGill (1877)

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