Records of an organization founded by business and church leaders to overthrow commercialized vice in Lancaster by sending agents into the community to check for prostitution, obscenity, drinking, and gambling. Collection includes by-laws, minutes, annual reports, treasurers' reports, agents' expenses, reports on findings, correspondence, newspaper clippings, 25 books of agents' on-duty reports, and investigative reports. The Rev. Clifford G. Twombly was identified with this movement, as was the late William H. Hager, department store merchant.
A true crime account of a highly publicized 1985 murder in Florida. Members of a wealthy family originally from Lancaster, PA, were killed by a pipe bomb in their car. The son, Steven Benson, was convicted of the murder of his mother and brother and injury to his sister. His sister later assisted the author in the writing of this book.
From Google Books: "The Benson pipe-bomb murder drama is the gripping focus of this story of a tobacco dynasty, failed ambition, drugs, violence, and a family tragedy of shattering proportions, all told by a reporter who held exclusive rights to the story. 35 pages of black-and-white photographs."
Wilton Marion Krogman (1903 - 1987) was an American anthropologist. He was a leader in the development of the field of physical anthropology, with an early and lasting interest in dental anthropology....In 1939 Krogman wrote an article in the F.B.I. newsletter entitled "A Guide to the Identification of Human Skeletal Material". It is widely considered to mark the beginning of forensic anthropology in the United States. Over the years Professor Krogman came to be popularly known as "the bone doctor." [from Wikipedia]
Charter, constitution of the Intercourse Association : of Lancaster County, for the recovery of stolen horses and other stolen property and detection of thieves
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]
In: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.106, no.2 (April 1982)
"This study of Lancaster County is a selective probe...For this project we examined the origins and dispositions of the 1,300 "true bill" indictments from 1860 through 1866.
