Carole Haber: 1 book
The Trials of Laura Fair
Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a...
