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    A Historic Hanging for a Murder Never Committed

    AUGUST 25, 2010 5:42PM

    By James and Lois Cowan


    Topics: true story, garrot, ap, morse code, big story, morse, illegal, lawyer, attorney, judge, deposition, pleading, boston, cambridge, dismember, disarticulation, harvard, medical school, college, nineteenth century, history, science, parkman, webster, murder, killing, 1850, hanging, 1849, associated press, victorian, dissection, resurrectionist, body snatcher, anatomy, corpse, aubergine, physiology, chemist, west end, back bay, boston, benefactor, garrot, big story, anniversary, ephraim littlefield

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