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Author Peters, Shawn Francis, 1966- author.

Title The infamous Harry Hayward : a true account of murder and mesmerism in gilded age Minneapolis / Shawn Francis Peters
Published Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Minneapolis, circa 1895; Introduction: â#x80;#x9C;Under a Cloud of Moral Darknessâ#x80;#x9D;; 1. â#x80;#x9C;This Woman Was Murderedâ#x80;#x9D;; 2. â#x80;#x9C;Who Killed Kittie Ging?â#x80;#x9D;; 3. â#x80;#x9C;A Saturnalia of Crimeâ#x80;#x9D;; 4. â#x80;#x9C;Money Was My God!â#x80;#x9D;; 5. â#x80;#x9C;Go Out and Kill Somebodyâ#x80;#x9D;; 6. â#x80;#x9C;She Made No Sound, and Was Deadâ#x80;#x9D;; 7. â#x80;#x9C;The Plot of a Fiendâ#x80;#x9D;; 8. â#x80;#x9C;A Cursed Ghoulish Monsterâ#x80;#x9D;; 9. â#x80;#x9C;Donâ#x80;#x99;t Under Any Circumstances Squeal on Meâ#x80;#x9D;; 10. â#x80;#x9C;The Boldest Thing I Ever Heard of in My Lifeâ#x80;#x9D;; 11. â#x80;#x9C;We Shall Be Able to Prove Everythingâ#x80;#x9D
12. â#x80;#x9C;Youâ#x80;#x99;ll Be Wearing Stripes within a Yearâ#x80;#x9D;13. â#x80;#x9C;Evidence! Oh, What a Sham!â#x80;#x9D;; 14. â#x80;#x9C;Take Him to the Gallows!â#x80;#x9D;; 15. â#x80;#x9C;The Greatest Villain of the Nineteenth Centuryâ#x80;#x9D;; 16. â#x80;#x9C;Stained with Bloodâ#x80;#x9D;; 17. â#x80;#x9C;A Kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Existenceâ#x80;#x9D;; 18. â#x80;#x9C;The Awful Finaleâ#x80;#x9D;; Epilogue: â#x80;#x9C;I Had a Schemeâ#x80;#x9D;; Acknowledgments; Sources and Further Reading; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary On a winter night in 1894, a young woman's body was found in the middle of a road near Lake Calhoun on the outskirts of Minneapolis. She had been shot through the head. The murder of Kittie Ging, a twenty-nine-year-old dressmaker, was the final act in a melodrama of seduction and betrayal, petty crimes and monstrous deeds that would obsess reporters and their readers across the nation when the man who likely arranged her killing came to trial the following spring. Shawn Francis Peters unravels that sordid, spellbinding story in his account of the trial of Harry Hayward, a serial seducer and schemer whom some deemed a "Svengali," others a "Machiavelli," and others a "lunatic" and "man without a soul." Dubbed "one of the greatest criminals the world has ever seen" by the famed detective William Pinkerton, Harry Hayward was an inveterate and cunning plotter of crimes large and small, dabbling in arson, insurance fraud, counterfeiting, and illegal gambling. His life story, told in full for the first time here, takes us into shadowy corners of the nineteenth century, including mesmerism, psychopathy, spiritualism, yellow journalism, and capital punishment. From the horrible fate of an independent young businesswoman who challenged Victorian mores to the shocking confession of Hayward on the eve of his execution (which, if true, would have made him a serial killer), The Infamous Harry Hayward unfolds a transfixing tale of one of the most notorious criminals in America during the Gilded Age"--Viewed on Amazon.com 4-9-2018
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2018)
Subject Hayward, Harry T., -1895.
Ging, Catherine M., 1865-1894.
SUBJECT Ging, Catherine M., 1865-1894. fast (OCoLC)fst00499180
Hayward, Harry T., -1895. fast (OCoLC)fst01986674
Subject Murderers -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Biography
Murder -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Case studies
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Murder.
Murderers.
SUBJECT Minneapolis (Minn.) -- History -- 19th century
Subject Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Case studies.
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017058076
ISBN 9781452957104
145295710X
1517903750
9781517903756