“UNWRITTEN LAW.”
An extraordinary murder trial is stirring the State of Maryland to its depths. The widow and son of a farmer named Bowie are charged with murdering a man named Herbert Posie, and they have entered the now customary plea in the south of the “ unwritten law.”
Both the prisoners gave evidence on their own behalf. The mother testified that she was entirely to blame, but she believed she could appeal with certainty to Southern chivalry, for she had in sympathy defended the honour of her family. The dead man, she declared, betrayed her daughter Priscilla, and she simply took steps to punish the betrayer.
The evidence of the son showed that, having discovered the wrong done by Posie, he and his mother both fired at the seducer, inflicting fatal injuries. A child had since been born to the girl, and it was on discovering her condition that Posie absconded. Public opinion is strongly in favour of the prisoners.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3770, 5 September 1907, Page 3
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160“UNWRITTEN LAW.” Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3770, 5 September 1907, Page 3
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