Murder of Mary Bean

Name: Murder of Mary Bean
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ISBN: 9780873389181

ISBN-10: 0873389182

ISBN-13: 9780873389181

Edition: 2007

Authors: Elizabeth A. De Wolfe

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When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. Thanks to evidence left at the scene, a local physician was arrested and tried for the death of Mary Bean, the name given to the unidentified young girl; the cause of death was failed abortion. Garnering extensive newspaper coverage, the trial revealed many secrets: a poorly trained doctor, connections to an unsolved murder in New Hampshire, and the true identity of "Mary Bean"--a young Canadian mill worker named Berengera Caswell, missing since the previous winter. The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories examines the series of events that led…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Publication date: 7/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Illustrations



The Death of Berengera Caswell



The Murder of Mary Bean


Mary Bean, The Factory Girl


Life of George Hamilton


Notes


Sources


Index