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William Otter Woodall was an attorney who collected a few of the more infamous trials in this collection. At this point in history trials were not easy to research. Woodall prepared this book for professionals in order that they could refer to them in their research. Trials included are The trial of Abraham Thornton for the murder of Mary Ashford, The appeal of murder and wager of Battle; William Ashford vs Abraham Thornton, The trial of Josiah Phillips for a libel on the Duke of Cumberland arising out of the Sellis case, The trial of the action Smyth vs Smyth relating to the Ashton estates,...

A solicitor with offices in Scarborough, William Otter Woodall (1837 1914) was a prominent member of the local community. This work, edited by Woodall and first published in 1873, brings together reports of seven notable and intriguing nineteenth-century civil and criminal trials as case studies for the benefit of the legal profession. (It was intended as the first of a series, but no further volumes were published.) The book includes that of the so-called 'Quaker' poisoner John Tawell, executed in 1845, who was the first person to be arrested with the aid of the electric telegraph and about...