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ROSE, ANDREW. (STINIE MORRISON.) Stinie: Murder on the Common.
The Bodley Head, London, (1985), Ist edition.. 220 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos, map. "Who was Stinie Morrison, the man sentenced to death for the murder of Leon Beron on Clapham Common in the early hours of Ist January 1911? An odd man, even by criminal standards, with a lo ng track record for burglary well before he came to face the capital charge of murder..Andrew Rose has gained access to the Home Office files, officially closed until 1990, and has delved deeply into the contemporary reportage of this case, w h i c h a mounts, arguably, to a miscarriage of justice..gives an absorbing picture of the East End immigrant community before the First World War, reveals the dubious motives of Edwardian officialdom and the blatant suppression of facts to bol s te r a we ak pr osecution case.." Dust jacket has light edgewear/wrinkling/rubbing. VG+/VG.
Offered for US$ 7.50 by: Capricorn Books - Book number: 8993
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