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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Chadwick, Bruce.     Subjects     Wythe, George, 1726-1806 -- Death and burial.     Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Friends and associates.     Poisoning -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.     Murder -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.     Criminal investigation -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.     Richmond (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Chadwick, Bruce.       by title:      I am murdered : Geor...         MARC Display

I am murdered : George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the killing that shocked a new nation / Bruce Chadwick. by Chadwick, Bruce. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2009. Subjects Wythe, George, 1726-1806 -- Death and burial.   Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Friends and associates.   Poisoning -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.   Murder -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.   Criminal investigation -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.   Richmond (Va.) -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780470185513 (cloth) : 0470185511 (cloth) Description:  viii, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Contents:  "I am murdered"? -- The funeral -- Homicide: early investigation, part I -- Williamsburg: George Wythe and Thomas Jefferson -- Jefferson and Wythe remake Virginia -- Richmond: boomtown and the decadent night life of George Wythe Sweeney -- The dying George Wythe changes his will -- Moving day: a second life in Richmond and the return of George Wythe -- The arrest -- The investigation, part II -- For the defense: William Wirt -- For the defense: Edmund Randolph -- Mourning at the executive mansion -- The forensics nightmare, part I: arsenic, the poison of choice -- The forensics nightmare, part II: the autopsy -- Lydia Broadnax, the eyewitness -- The black and white legal codes -- Washington: October, 1806. Requests:  0 Summary:  Wythe lived long enough to accuse his grandnephew of poisoning him and two other members of his household. Why did three prominent doctors insist that he hadn't been poisoned at all? Learn the grisly, fascinating, and often astounding tale of Wythe's murder and America's very first "trial of the century."   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 364.1523 Ch Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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