"I am murdered"
Subtitle: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the killing that shocked a new nation
By: Bruce Chadwick.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780470185513
Subjects: Wythe, George, -- 1726-1806 -- Death and burial; Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826 -- Friends and associates; Poisoning -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies; Murder -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies; Criminal investigation -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies; Richmond (Va.) -- History -- 19th century
Description: Wythe lived long enough to accuse his grandnephew of poisoning him and two other members of his household. Why did three prominent doctors insist that he hadn't been poisoned at all? Learn the grisly, fascinating, and often astounding tale of Wythe's murder and America's very first "trial of the century."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "I am murdered"?; title: The funeral; title: Homicide: early investigation; title: Williamsburg: George Wythe and Thomas Jefferson; title: Jefferson and Wythe remake Virginia; title: Richmond: boomtown and the decadent night life of George Wythe Sweeney; title: The dying George Wythe changes his will; title: Moving day: a second life in Richmond and the return of George Wythe; title: The arrest; title: The investigation II; title: For the defense: William Wirt; title: For the defense: Edmund Randolph; title: Mourning at the executive mansion; title: The forensics nightmare, part one: arsenic, the poison of choice; title: The forensics nightmare, part two: the autopsy; title: Lydia Broadnax, the eyewitness; title: The black and white legal code; title: Washington: October, 1806.