Was Guiteau Insane?
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There is no intention of reproducing the somewhat sensational trial of Gruiteau here. There were in that melo-dramatie proceeding a number of novel, startling, and inexplicable episodes, calculated to interest and instruct our insular mind, but, except in so far as these incidents may cast a lurid light upon the conduct and character of the accused, they shall not be included in this inquiry. In the many crimes belonging to the regicidal category which have disgraced Europe during the current century; in the murder of the Emperor Alexander, in the
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دوره 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016