Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Trial of Samuel M. Andrews: Indicted for the Murder of Cornelius Holmes, Before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, December 11, 1868
A report of this trial is submitted to the public, not alone because it was a capital trial of more general interest to the public than any which has taken place in New England since the trial of Prof. Webster, but also because a very general desire has been expressed by gentlemen of the legal profession that an accurate legal statement should be published. The Editor is indebted to the full notes of the learned and courteous Attorney General, Hon. Charles Allen, the minutes of his associate, Mr. Somerby, to the testimony taken by Albert Mason, Esq., who took notes at the trial for the benefit of counsel on both sides, as well as the reports of the press, for the record of the testimony. The attorney-general has also kindly written out his most eloquent argument, but the argument of Mr. Somerby is gathered from the material which he'has been able to furnish, mostly from his memory, and from the reports which appeared in the daily press. He has been unable, amid the pressing duties of his profession, to recall with exactness a speech which con sumed five hours in its delivery.
The charge of Chief Justice Chapman is published from his own revision of a very accurate phonographic report, which required only a few verbal corrections.
The Editor alone is responsible for the notes, and for the accuracy of the report.
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