The Baldwinsville Homicide, Verbatim Report of the Trial of Owen..

1875. The Only Published Account of an 1873 Murder Near Syracuse, New York: McDade 628 [Trial]. Linsday, Owen, Defendant. Tinsley, [Charles G.], Reporter. Morgan, [Frederick J.], Reporter. The Baldwinsville Homicide. Verbatim Report of the Trial of Owen Linsday, For the Murder of Francis A. Colvin, Containing the Testimony in Full; Opening and Closing Speeches of Counsel; Charge to the Jury, &c. Printed from the Minutes of the Official Reporters. Also Accurate Likenesses of Linsday, Colvin and Vader, Engraved from Photographs Recently Taken. Syracuse, NY: Published by Tinsley & Morgan, Official Stenographers to the Supreme Court, Truair, Smith & Co., Printers, 1875. 268 pp. Text in double columns. 6 plates. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers, publisher advertisement to verso of rear wrapper, fragment of early owner label to spine. Moderate soiling, edgewear and a few small chips to wrappers, spine ends abraded, rear wrapper beginning to detach at ends. "C.F. Libby" in early hand to head of front wrapper, price, at its foot, struck through. Moderate toning to interior, corner folds and light edgewear to first few leaves of text block, "Copy of Mayor Charles F. Libby of Portland Me." in small early penciled hand to head of title page. $450. * Only edition of the only published account. In 1873, with the assistance of Vader, Linsday contrived a plan to murder Colvin and steal his money, a nest egg of about $3,000 that he always kept with him. Linsday fatally struck Colvin in the back of his head with an axe, then he and Vader sunk Colvin's body in the Seneca River and told people afterwards that Colvin left town to live in Syracuse. The crime was detected when the body was discovered two years later. Vader confessed in exchange for testimony and the charges against him were dropped. Linsday was convicted and hanged. Libby [1844-1915], a Maine lawyer and politician, was Portland's mayor in 1882 and president of the American Bar Association from 1909 to 1910. He served in the Maine Senate from 1889 to 1892 and was the Senate's president from 1891 to 1892. Tinsley and Morgan's is the only published account of this case (excepting reports in periodicals). OCLC locates 10 copies in law libraries (Brooklyn Law School, Harvard, NY State Appellate Court, NY State Supreme Court, Northwestern, Trial Cour. (Inventory #: 82655)