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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hortis, Alex, 1972- author.     Subjects     Bodine, Polly -- Trials, litigation, etc.     Tabloid newspapers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.     Murder -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.     Infanticide -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.     Trials (Murder) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.     Trials (Arson) -- New York (State) -- New York. -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hortis, Alex, 1972- author.       by title:      The witch of New Yor...         MARC Display

The witch of New York : the trials of Polly Bodine and the cursed birth of tabloid justice / Alex Hortis. by Hortis, Alex, 1972- author. New York : Pegasus Crime, 2024. Subjects Bodine, Polly -- Trials, litigation, etc.   Tabloid newspapers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.   Murder -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.   Infanticide -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.   Trials (Murder) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.   Trials (Arson) -- New York (State) -- New York. -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9781639363919 (hardcover) : 1639363912 (hardcover) Description:  xx, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First Pegasus Books cloth edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony--before even Lizzie Borden--there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation's debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to death a mother and child in their home--and then covered up the crime with hellfire. When an ambitious district attorney charges Polly Bodine (Emelin's sister-in-law) with a double homicide, the new "penny press" explodes. Polly is a perfect media villain: she's a separated wife who drinks gin, commits adultery, and has had multiple abortions. Between June 1844 and April 1846, the nation was enthralled by her three trials--in Staten Island, Manhattan, and Newburgh--for the "Christmas murders." After Polly's legal dream team entered the fray, the press and the public debated not only her guilt, but her character and fate as a fallen woman in society. Public opinion split into different camps over her case. Edgar Allen Poe and Walt Whitman covered her case as young newsmen. P. T. Barnum made a circus out of it. James Fenimore Cooper's last novel was inspired by her trials"--Amazon.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Acquisitions, SSP   in Processing   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Hortis Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Ho Checked out 05/31/2024 Add Copy to MyList Manoa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Ho Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Mountain View P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Hortis Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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