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Acquittal, by Greame and Sarah Lorimer
I have been asked to read and comment on the book Acquittal, by Greame
and Sarah Lorimer, and I'd like to find out something about it before doing so. I found an entry an Amazon, but there was nothing in the way of description. I tried Googling it, and didn't have much better luck. Can anone tell me at least what genre itfalls into, so I know what to expect. From the title, it sounds like some kind of murder mystery. Thanks. |
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Acquittal, by Greame and Sarah Lorimer
"David Downing" wrote in message
... I have been asked to read and comment on the book Acquittal, by Greame and Sarah Lorimer, and I'd like to find out something about it before doing so. I found an entry an Amazon, but there was nothing in the way of description. I tried Googling it, and didn't have much better luck. Google finds he 1. "LORIMER, GRAEME LORIMER, SARAH - Acquittal New York, Little, Brown And Company. 1938, First Edition. Hard Cover Cloth. Good+ in Good+ dj. Fading/mottling to 50% of front and rear cloth covers. Slight rippling to cloth on faded part of rear cover. Few chips and tears to dj. Text is clean and tight. Dj price intact. Good +/Good +. USD 75.00 http://www.antiqbook.com/books/booki...42&Language=en 2. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...405B 828DF1D3 suggests this had something to do with a trial in 1912, discussed by presidential candidates Taft and T.Roosevelt. 3. More fully narrated at http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/il...n-and-now.html The event concerned Illinois state nomination for a US Senate seat of a congressman called Lorimer. "Not only did Lorimer's allies bribe 108 state lawmakers about $800 each for an approximate cost of $864,000 in 1909 dollars, there was an additional expense to bribe the two juries that acquitted Browne. A special investigating committee of the US Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections that was named to look into the Lorimer affair concluded they could not trust the outcome of court cases in Cook County and decided to expel Lorimer from his seat in 1912 after they concluded that Lorimer had also bribed all the members of both Cook County juries that had acquitted Lorimer's ally State Rep. Browne in both of his trials. But the exact amount of those bribes is not known with certainty." There seems to be more. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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