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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Yet this gentle creature can deliberately poison his two friends.
Was ever such a contradictory fellow?
Professor Webster
The best report of Webster's trial is that edited by Bemis. The
following tracts in the British Museum have been consulted by the
writer: "Appendix to the Webster Trial," Boston, 1850:
"Thoughts on the Conviction of Webster"; "The Boston Tragedy," by
W. E. Bigelow.
It is not often that the gaunt spectre of murder invades the
cloistered calm of academic life. Yet such a strange and
unwonted tragedy befell Harvard University in the year 1849, when
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