Lewis Lapham: Hamilton, Burr Team Saved Accused Murderer
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“Crucify him!” shouted people crowding the courthouse as the prisoner arrived. Levi Weeks was on trial for the murder of Elma Sands, a young Quaker girl who lived in the same boardinghouse. She’d been strangled, her body dumped into a Manhattan well just before Christmas, 1799.
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