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Famous Trials 4: Harold Greenwood, William Joyce, Ley and Smith. Dr Pritchard, Robert Wood

Edited by: James H. Hodge

ISBN13: 9780140009835
ISBN: 0140009833
Previous Edition ISBN: 004368
Published: April 1994
Publisher: Penguin Books
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: Out of print



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The Penguin Famous Trials series was started by Harry Hodge, who was Managing, Director of William Hodge & Co., Ltd, Publishers and Shorthand Writers. The son and grandson of a printer, he followed his father as one of the most expert of shorthand writers in Scotland, and for some fifty years was a well-known figure in the Scottish Courts both in that capacity and as a publisher of legal works.

In 1905 he founded The Notable British Trials Series which now extends to 70 volumes, commencing with that cause celebre, the Trial of Madeleine Smith. He was steeped in criminology all his life and held the view that a trial should be at least twenty years old before it can proveitself to have been notable, although this view had to be modified under modern conditions.

As general editor of that series he carefully selected his editors and insisted on the greatest possible accuracy in the presentation of each volume. Outside of his business life Mr Hodge's main interest was devoted to music, and he has a number of compositions to his name. He died in November 1947.

Since his death both The Notable Trial Series and the Penguin Famous Trials have been edited by his son, James Hozier Hodge. Moreover, in 1948, after long negotiations, James Hodge produced the first volumes in the War Crimes Trials Series, of which he is the assistant general editor to Sir David Maxwell Fyfe,P.C., Q.C., M.P

This is a 1994 reprint of the original 1954 edition

Volume 4
The five court cases in this volume cover the crimes of treason and murder by means of poison, throat-cutting and strangling. At the time, they were each the focus of acute public interest and they still exercise a chilly fascination.

Harold Greenwood's wife died showing some of the symptoms of poisoning, but his main crime seemed to be his remarriage within four months. Robert Wood, accused of the murder of a prostitute, was also defended by Marshall Hall, who used all his considerable skills in both cases.

There was no such ambiguity of evidence at the trial of Dr Pritchard, who was the last man to be publicly hanged in Glasgow. Of the two men accused in the bizarre `Chalk Pit Murder', one became Broadmoor's richest inmate. Finally, the treason trial of William Joyce wartime's Lord Haw-Haw — set a precedent in legal history.

Subjects:
Legal History, Trials

Series: Famous Trials

Famous Trials 9: Roger Casement ISBN 9780140021240
Published September 1994
Penguin Books
Out of print
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde ISBN 9780140018578
Published July 1994
Penguin Books
Out of print
Out of print
Out of print
Famous Trials 2 : Armstrong, Field & Gray, GJ Smith, Ronald True
Edited by: Harry Hodge
ISBN 9780140006346
Published February 1994
Penguin Books
Out of print
Famous Trials 1: Madeleine Smith, Oscar Slater, Dr.Crippen, Dr.Palmer
Edited by: Harry Hodge
ISBN 9780140003383
Published January 1994
Penguin Books
Out of print
Famous Trials: Selected by John Mortimer Creator of Rumpole ISBN 9780880290807
Published November 1986
Dorset Press
£12.00
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Famous Trials: Selected by John Mortimer Creator of Rumpole ISBN 9780140069242
Published July 1984
Penguin Books
Out of print
Out of print
Famous Trials 9: Roger Casement ISBN 004437
Published April 1964
Penguin Books
Out of print
Famous Trials 7: Oscar Wilde ISBN 004374
Published September 1962
Penguin Books
Out of print
Out of print
Out of print
Famous Trials 1: Madeleine Smith, Oscar Slater, Dr.Crippen, Dr.Palmer
Edited by: Harry Hodge
ISBN 004433
Published November 1941
Penguin Books
Out of print