Sickles makes history with 'temporary insanity'...
THE NORWALK EXPERIMENT, Ohio, March 29, 1859 Among the articles: "Mr. Sickles' Child Visits Him in Prison". Daniel Sickles was an American politician, soldier, and diplomat. He was involved in a number of scandals, most notably the 1859 homicide of his wife's lover, U.S. Attorney Philip Barton Key II, whom Sickles gunned down in broad daylight in across the street from the White House. He was acquitted after using temporary insanity as a legal defense for the first time in U.S. history.
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HARTFORD DAILY COURANT, Hartford, Connecticut, Feb. 29, 1859
- Daniel Edgar Sickles trial
- Philip Barton Key murder
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THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, a trio of issues dated April 9, 11 & 20, 1859.
- Daniel sickles murder trial
- Philip Barton Key
The first use of a plea of temporary
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page features a cameo of 'The Hon. Daniel E. Sickles' with a lengthy accompanying article entitled
NEW YORK HERALD, July 19, 1859 Nearly half of the front page is taken up with a lengthy & detailed report: "The Sickles Case - The Last Phase of Public
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