Law miscellanies: containing an introduction to the study of the law : notes on Blackstone's Commentaries, shewing the variations of the law of Pennsylvania from the law of England, and what acts of Assembly might require to be repealed or modified; observations on Smith's edition of the laws of Pennsylvania; strictures on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and on certain acts of Congress, with some law cases, and a variety of other matters, chiefly original
"Publication sponsored by the Hostetter Family Reunion."
Includes indexes.
Contents
Descendants of Jacob and Anna Hostetter of Engleside, Lancaster Cty., Pa. / by Richard L. Hostetter -- Descendants of Oswald and Maria Hostetter of Warwick Twp., Lancaster Cty., Pa. / by David J. Bachman.
Reports of cases in the county courts of the Fifth circuit, and in the High courts of errors & appeals, of the state of Pennsylvania. [1791-1799] And Charges to grand juries of those county courts
Acts of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : passed at a session which was begun and held at the borough of Lancaster, on Tuesday the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the independence of the United States of America, the thirty-third. : Published by authority
A Correct account of the trials of Charles M'Manus, John Hauer, Elizabeth Hauer, Patrick Donagan, Francis Cox, and others; at Harrisburgh -- June Oyer and Terminer, 1798. For the murder of Francis Shitz, on the night of the 28th December, 1797, at Heidelberg Township, Dauphin County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Containing, the whole evidence, and the substance of all the law arguments in those celebrated trials
"The following is the last speech and dying confession of Charles M'Manus ."--Page 161-163.
Half-title: Trials and confessions of John Hauer, Charles M'Manus, &c. for the murder of Francis Shitz.
Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Evans
Summary
This is an account of the first murder trial in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for a crime that took place just outside of Harrisburg in December 1797. "The will of Peter Shitz left most of his estate to his sons Francis and Peter, but if they died without children, part went to his daughter Elizabeth. Hauer was the husband of Elizabeth, and he hired four Irishmen, newly arrived in the country, to kill his brothers-in-law. Two masked men raided the house one night and killed Francis with an ax, but Peter escaped. M'Manus and Hauer were hanged." [Williamreesecompany.com]
