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Hurled Into Eternity: Mary Jane Dies in Memphis, 1890

Hurled Into Eternity: Mary Jane Dies in Memphis, 1890

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Series: Hurled Into Eternity: Mary Jane Dies in Memphis, 1890, Book 1

Civil War Period (1850-1877)True Crime

ISBN13: 9798395122469
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 23 2023
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
HURLED INTO ETERNITY. MRS. M.J. PERSON SHOOTS HER BRAINS OUT THIS MORNING.

The sensational newspaper headline announces the death of Mary Jane Person on an early Tuesday morning in September 1890.

The forty-five-year-old woman is found lying face up and stone-cold dead behind her home near the south gate of Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis. There are horrendous wounds to both sides of her head and a bloody pistol lies at her feet. She had threatened self-harm many times before; it appears she has succeeded. A coroner's inquest rules her death a suicide.

But her funeral the next day is interrupted by Memphis police; her casket is taken to the family's kitchen where an autopsy is performed. The funeral resumes afterwards but her interment following it at Elmwood is denied. And later that evening, police will return to the family home and arrest her fifty-nine-year-old husband William. He is charged with first degree murder, punishable by hanging.

This is the chronological recounting of his trial.

One hundred and thirty-five years later, the question still waits to be answered: who killed Mary Jane Person?

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