Edward F. Costello Trial transcripts 1881-1913 1891 Costello, Edward F. Trial transcripts

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Edward F. Costello Trial transcripts 1881-1913 1891 Costello, Edward F. Trial transcripts

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This volume is a lawyer-retained copy of transcripts of the April 1891 murder trial of Edward F. Costello in Springfield, Massachusetts. Costello was found guilty of murdering his son William, despite his attorneys' attempts to win a plea of insanity.

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William L. Clements Library

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William L. Clements Library

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Costello, Edward F.

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Barrows, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1853-1918

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Edward F. Costello was born in Keshcarrigan, Ireland, in the mid-1860s, and lived with his maternal grandparents after losing his father at the age of 7. In 1879, they sent him to the United States, where he lived for a time in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, working at a succession of factory jobs. He moved to Palmer, Massachusetts, in 1886, and obtained employment as a brakeman with the New London Northern Railroad; he later had an accident that cost him a leg. He married Adelaide Victoria Burns (b....

Massachusetts. Superior Court (Hampden County)

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