The Lazier Murder : : Prince Edward County, 1884 / / Robert J. Sharpe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Sharpe, Robert J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Map --; 1 Introduction --; 2 The Crime --; 3 Hugh McKinnon, Detective --; 4 A Place Apart --; 5 Coroner’s Inquest --; 6 Committal Proceedings --; 7 Picton Spring Assizes, 1884 --; 8 Surprise Evidence --; 9 The Defence --; 10 Verdict --; 11 Last Hope --; 12 Pleas for Mercy --; 13 The Day of Execution Approaches --; 14 Community Conscience --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442693418; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442693418
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert J. Sharpe.

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.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.