JWB Seduction Charge (Not Breach of Promise)
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11-30-2017, 03:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-30-2017 03:58 AM by Steve.)
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RE: JWB Seduction Charge (Not Breach of Promise)
(11-29-2017 04:49 PM)jparkuntz Wrote: This is a follow-up to my post of a few weeks ago of a 4/16/1865 Philadelphia Sunday Mercury clipping that indicated that JWB had seduced a young woman in Philadelphia in 1857-58 and that resulted in a requisition being sent from the Governor of Pennsylvania to Virginia to have Booth returned to face that charge. Wow, great and important find! I'm glad the Mercury story was able to be verified. About the Philadelphia Archives, I have to tell you something important. In less than 2 weeks it's going to close and isn't scheduled to reopen until September 2018 because it is moving locations: https://blog.eogn.com/2017/11/29/philade...gust-2018/ This link may be helpful in understanding Pennsylvania laws regarding the crime of seduction at the time: https://books.google.com/books?id=vj2TAA...ia&f=false |
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