1
/
of
0
North Country Books, Incorporated
The Balance of Justice: The Utica Streetcar Murder of 1872
The Balance of Justice: The Utica Streetcar Murder of 1872
Regular price
$19.95 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$19.95 USD
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Quantity
Couldn't load pickup availability
In January of 1872, Josephine McCarty was indicted for murder in a shooting on a horse-drawn streetcar in Utica, New York. There were witnesses, and the common consensus was that the woman would hang. Then the governor of New York called a special term of court, and his attorney general sent a high-powered lawyer to aid the prosecution. Why?
Perhaps the story was more complex than it appeared. This accounting of Josephine’s life offers a window into another place in time, an era when flamboyant architecture and white-gloved manners masked a darker side of society. The facts brought forth in her trial reveal a woman of unfathomable courage struggling in a time when money and influence obliterated the line between villain and victim.
Perhaps the story was more complex than it appeared. This accounting of Josephine’s life offers a window into another place in time, an era when flamboyant architecture and white-gloved manners masked a darker side of society. The facts brought forth in her trial reveal a woman of unfathomable courage struggling in a time when money and influence obliterated the line between villain and victim.