Person:Richard Smyth (4)

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Name Richard Smyth
Gender Male
Marriage 1815 Pennsylvaniato Ann Baker
Death[1] 1816 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United Statesdeath by hanging for the murder of Capt. John Carson, to whom his wife was still married
References
  1. Family Notes by Bitbybug (2001) [1].

    http://www.law.uh.edu/Libraries/Bibliography/frankel.html

    This site is from the University of Houston Law Center's O'Quinn Law Library. The library's Franckel Rare Book Collection has a copy of an old book about Richard SMYTH/SMITH's trial, written in 1816.
    Here's the citation from the book:

    "Smith, Richard, d. 1816.
    THE TRIALS OF RICHARD SMITH ... AS PRINCIPAL, AND ANN CARSON, ALIAS ANN SMITH, AS ACCESSORY, FOR THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOHN CARSON, ON THE 20TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1816, AT A COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, MAY, 1816, BY THE JUDGES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUDGE RUSH ... PRESIDENT; TOGETHER WITH THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL, THE CHARGES AND SENTENCE OF THE PRESIDENT.
    TAKEN IN SHORT HAND BY J. C., A MEMBER OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAR.
    Philadelphia, Thomas Desilver [1816].
    KF223.S48C23 1816 [call number?]"