TRIAL OF HENRY G. GREEN, FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE. CONTAINING THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OPENING, THE TESTIMONY COMPLETE, JUDGE PARKER'S CHARGE IN FULL, THE VERDICT AND SENTENCE, THE LETTER OF HIS MOTHER, TO GREEN, A POEM, SUGGESTED BY THE OCCASION.
Troy: Printed for the Publisher, 1845. Original printed wrappers with an engraved portrait of Green ["Drawn by F. A. Lydston, of Boston, now staying in this City"]. Wrappers are chipped at extremities [closed tear without loss on front wrap, rear wrapper has loss of a few words]. 48pp, each page printed in two columns. Light dusting. Good+.
"Green, twenty-two years old, met his wife, Mary Ann Wyatt, eighteen years old, during some temperance lectures. They had been married less than a week when he poisoned her with arsenic at Berlin, New York. The crime seems to have been induced by his mother's disapproval of his wife" [McDade].
Green makes his confession to Reverend Van Kleeck; he urges other "young men to lead a Christian life." Sentencing him to death, Judge Parker expresses astonishment: "Was it ever known that so interesting and holy a relation as that of man and wife, has been followed thus soon by a result so shocking and painful to all the feelings of our nature?"
McDade 388. AI 45-2846 [5]. Item #41162
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