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I placed the SoCo Manhattan on a coaster right next to my lounge chair. My tablet and pen were also on the same end table. I was now prepared for some serious work.
These are the Sealy highlights that I came up with:
140 Abductions
556 Assaults of both degrees
164 Third degree burglaries
957 Grand Larcenies of both degrees
445 Murders of the first degree
247 Rapes of both degrees
265 Robberies of the first degree (With several other variations)
There were myriads of other crimes; way too many to list by quantity; however, not too many to mention, this time in reverse alphabetical order:
Wrongful act
Weapon carrying
Voting offense
Seduction
Sodomy
Receiving
Public Officers; Misappropriation, Corruption, Neglect, Taking (See Note 1 below)
Liquor
Forgery
Compounding a felony
Bribery
Arson
Note 1: These are now “Ethics Violations”, not crimes, exercised by the NY State legislature.
I first took a peek at the summary data on Monk Eastman’s trial.
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TRIAL #421 Date: 1904/4/12; Reels(s): 73.
Defendant(s): William Delaney, Sex: M; Monk Eastman, Sex: M;
Charge(s): Assault (1st degree); Assault (2nd degree); Murder (1st degree), attempted;
Judge: John W. Goff;
Defense Attorney(s): Cantwell; George W. Hurlbut; Moore;
Prosecuting Attorney(s): William Rand Jr.; Nathan A. Smythe;
Note(s): Alias Monk Eastman.
Stenographer Number: 514;
Page(s): 289 p.
Full-Text Transcript available: 421.pdf
Court: Court of General Sessions
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And then I perused the top page of the legal document.
Finally I studied some of the testimony:
Soon I realized that I had accidentally found a hot link that pointed to Monk’s trial record.
You are more than welcome to peruse the entire record yourself:
A link to Eastman’s trial record
I was happy to realize that I was using a platform that allows me to hot-key to these documents. I now had the ability to sit through Monk Eastman’s trial.
But this was just the beginning.