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A story of an immortal novelist, his West Barnstable father-in-law, THE murder of early-Victorian England, and two Boston trials: one which resulted in the trial of the century (before Lizzie Borden) and which resonates in courts today.
Herman Melville witnessed in London the hangings of the Mannings, a married couple who murdered the wife's lover--for money. Melville's father-in-law was the titan of 19th-century Massachusetts jurisprudence, West Barnstable's Lemuel Shaw, who presided over two murder trials, within weeks of each other, the latter being the famous Murder at Harvard: a tale of murder, a grisly cover-up, and a sensational trial that established the reasonable-doubt standard that continues today.
ADMISSION INFO
Free admission
Phone: 508-362-2262
LOCATION
2401 Meetinghouse Way (Route 149), West Barnstable, MA 02668
