The Lazier murder
Prince Edward County, 1884
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Author
Publication
2011 - University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario
Language
English
Word Count
47,250 words, Guess
Page Count
189 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25163190M
- ISBN-139781442644212
- ISBN-101442644214
- OCLC Control Number727326077
- Library of Congress Control Number2011285060
Classifications
- DDC364.152/30971358709034
- LCCHV6535.C33 P76 2011
Description
"In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse. Three local men, pleading innocence from start to finish, were arrested and charged with his murder. Two of them - Joseph Thomset and David Lowder - were sentenced to death by a jury of local citizens the following May. Nevertheless, appalled community members believed at least one of them to be innocent - even pleading with prime minister John A. Macdonald to spare them from the gallows. The Lazier Murder explores a community's response to a crime, as well as the realization that it may have contributed to a miscarriage of justice. Robert J. Sharpe reconstructs and contextualizes the case using archival and contemporary newspaper accounts. The Lazier Murder provides an insightful look at the changing pattern of criminal justice in nineteenth-century Canada, and the enduring problem of wrongful convictions."--Pub. desc.
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