A Review of the Case, the People Agt Rev Henry Budge, Indicted...
McDade 137: OCLC Locates 4 Copies in Law Libraries Swinburne, John [1820-1889]. Budge, Henry, Defendant A Review of the Case, The People Agt. Rev. Henry Budge, Indicted for the Murder of His Wife Priscilla Budge, (Tried at the Oneida, New York, Circuit Court, In August and September, 1861,) Containing an Examination of the Medico-Legal Questions Involved in the Case; A Review of the Positions Taken by the Medical Witnesses for the Defence; An Extended Discussion of the Positions Assumed by the Medical Witnesses for the Prosecution, With Cuts, And Tables for Illustration; Letters and Opinions from Various Eminent American and Foreign Medical Jurists; Together with Copious Abstracts from the Evidence Adduced, And the Judge's Charge in the Civil Action of Henry Budge agt. Caleb Lyon, For Libel, Tried at the Herkimer Circuit in October and November, 1861. Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, Printer, 1862. 94 pp. 6 lithograph plates. Octavo (9" x 6"; 23 x 15.2 cm). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Light soiling and a few minor stains to exterior, two early owner signatures, "H. Louis Wallace" and, with cross-outs, "T.C. Callicot," to head of front wrapper, small bookseller ticket (Williamson Law Book Co., Rochester New York) to verso, moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners. Moderate toning to interior, faint dampstaining to head of text block in a few places. A very good copy overall. $350. * Only edition. "Mrs. Budge's death was first ruled a suicide; then her husband was tried, but acquitted. Her throat had been cut. After acquittal, Budge sued Caleb Lyon for calling him a murderer. Lyon's defense was that the allegation was true. Budge got a judgement of $100; he had sued for $20,000. Dr. Swinburne was Lyon's defense witness, and his pamphlet summarizes that trial. There is an interesting series of illustrations demonstrating the kinds of wounds made from different positions" (McDade). Swinburne went on to serve as mayor of Albany and represent New York in Congress from 1885-1887 in addition to his work as a physician. Theophilus Carey Callicot [1826-1920], a graduate of Yale Law School, was a notable Brooklyn lawyer, politician and newspaper editor. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1860 to 1863 and was its speaker in 1863. Appointed a customs official in 1865, he was.
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