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Subject(s)

• Murder—New York (State)—New York—Case studies [Browse]
• Teenagers—New York (State)—New York—Case studies [Browse]
• New York (State)—New York—Social life and customs—20th century [Browse]
• Burns, Florence Wallace, 1882- [Browse]

Distributor

• OverDrive, Inc [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Case studies [Browse]

Notes

Electronic book.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ashland The Kent State University Press 2019 Available via World Wide Web.

Contents

• Murder at Ground zero
• The Bedford Avenue gang
• Florence Burns and Walter Brooks
• Walter Brooks's last week
• Arrest
• Florence and the tombs angel
• The unwritten law
• Florence in jail and a city obsessed
• The court of special sessions
• The verdict and an intermission
• The inquest
• Florence's new life
• The badger game
• Arrest, trial, and the law of unintended consequences
• Lessons not learned
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

9781631013492 (electronic bk.)

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