EP 69: Horse Thief PT 1

In this week's episode, the first part of a two-parter, Kate and Paul head to 1846 upstate New York where an offender with a knife attacks a family in their home. After the murderer flees the scene on horseback, the manhunt begins.

Sources:

The trial of William Freeman for the murder of John G. Van Nest: including the evidence and the arguments of counsel, with the decision of the Supreme Court granting a new trial, and an account of the death of the prisoner, and of the post-mortem examination of his body by Amariah Brigham, M.D., and others. (1848)

https://archive.org/details/trialwilliamfre01courgoog/page/n11/mode/2up

People V. William Freeman (Historical Society of the New York Courts)

https://history.nycourts.gov/case/people-v-freeman/

“People V. William Freeman” (Cornell Law School)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/people_v._william_freeman_(1847)

“In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity” by Jeannine Marie DeLombard

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fj0kq?typeAccessWorkflow=login

“America's First M'Naghten Defense and the Origin of the Black Rage Syndrome” by Kenneth J. Weiss and Neha Gupta (Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry) 2018.

https://jaapl.org/content/46/4/503

“Crazy Bill Had a Down Look” by Louis C. Jones (American Heritage) 1955.

https://www.americanheritage.com/crazy-bill-had-down-look

“Owasco Lake” (World Lake Database)

https://wldb.ilec.or.jp/Display/html/3419

“Owasco Lake” (Visit Finger Lakes)

https://www.visitfingerlakes.com/plan-your-trip/finger-lakes-facts/owasco-lake/

“The Insanity Plea in Early Nineteenth Century America” by AD Spiegel and MB Spiegel (Journal of  Community Health) 1998.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9615297/

“The Story Behind Each of the Eleven Finger Lakes” (Life in the Finger Lakes) 2019.

https://www.lifeinthefingerlakes.com/the-story-behind-each-of-the-eleven-finger-lakes-part-3/

“The Horrible Murder in Cayuga” New-York Tribune (1846)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/79062942/?terms=%22van%20nest%22%20%22freeman%22&match=1

“Ancient Dagger Found in Owasco House Believed Weapon Used in 1856 Carnage” (Democrat and Chronicle) 1928.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/135311878/?terms=%22van%20nest%22%20%22freeman%22&match=1

“The Full Story of William Seward and his most famous defendant” by Laurel Auschampaugh (The Citizen) 2014.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/479017591/?terms=%22van%20nest%22%20%22freeman%22&match=1

“Harriet Tubman” (National Park Service)

https://www.nps.gov/hart/learn/historyculture/tubman-residence.htm

“Harriet Tubman Home” (National Park Service)

https://www.nps.gov/places/harriettubmanhome.htm

“History” (Cayuga County)

https://www.cayugacounty.us/235/History

“M’naghten rule” (Cornell Law School)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/m%27naghten_rule#:~:text=Under%20this%20M'Naghten%20test,not%20know%20that%20it%20was

“The Black Rage Defense” by Paul Harris (UConn Law)

https://cpilj.law.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2515/2018/09/1.13-The-Black-Rage-Defense-by-Paul-Harris.pdf

“Harriet Tubman Home” (The History List)

https://www.thehistorylist.com/sites/harriet-tubman-home#:~:text=She%20was%20provided%20a%20two,US%20Senator%20from%20New%20York.

“History of the Insanity Defense in New York State” by R A Carter (OJP)

https://ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/history-insanity-defense-new-york-state

“§ 40.15 Mental disease or defect.” (The New York State Senate)

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/40.15

 

 

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