TRIAL OF JOHN STUART, AND CATHERINE WRIGHT, OR STUART...FOR THE MURDER AND ROBBERY OF ROBERT LAMONT, ON BOARD THE TOWARD CASTLE STEAM-BOAT, WHILE ON THE PASSAGE FROM TABBERT TO GLASGOW
1829 · Edinburg
by [Scottish Crime]
Edinburg, 1829. viii,47pp. Dbd. Two faint institutional stamps and one small ink number on titlepage, light toning. Good. An interesting murder trial account involving a husband-and-wife poisoning team on a steamboat near Glasgow in the early-19th century. From the Introduction: "The case which forms the subject of the present publication is, however, a proof, that there are other and equally subtile and perilous forms of committing murder; and the trial of John Stuart and Catherine Wright is published in its present authentic form, as a warning to the people of Scotland against the approaches of a set of crimes which have always been perpetrated under the reign of the darkest vice and superstition which have clouded European society." Rare, with only about a dozen copies over several records in OCLC. (Inventory #: WRCAM53865)