TY  - GEN
T1  - The Lazier murder : Prince Edward County, 1884
T2  - Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
A1  - Sharpe, Robert J.
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn785803087
AB  - "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.
AB  - 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.
OP  - 189
CN  - HV6535.C33 P76 2011eb
SN  - 9781442693418
SN  - 144269341X
SN  - 9781442644212
KW  - Thomset, Joseph : Trials, litigation, etc.
KW  - Lowder, George : Trials, litigation, etc.
KW  - Lowder, David : Trials, litigation, etc.
KW  - Lazier, Peter.
KW  - Murder : Ontario : Prince Edward : History : 19th century.
KW  - Trials (Murder) : Ontario : Prince Edward : History : 19th century.
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of : Ontario : Prince Edward : History : 19th century.
KW  - Meurtre : Ontario : Prince Edward : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Procès (Meurtre) : Ontario : Prince Edward : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - TRUE CRIME : Murder : General.
KW  - LAW : General.
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Murder
KW  - Trials (Murder)
KW  - Ontario : Prince Edward
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - History
KW  - Trials, litigation, etc.
ER  -