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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. vii, 243 p. illus. 23 cm. OCLC 716526 ; red cloth with gold lettering, no dustjacket ; "Except, perhaps, for the more recent Dreyfus affair, no criminal case of the nineteenth century has so profoundly stirred society as that revealed at the Court of assizes in Brabant, on the 22nd of December, 1882, where sentence of death was passed on the brothers Armand and Le?on Peltzer for the willful murder of Guillaume Bernays." ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] vii, 243 pages illustrations 23 cm. OCLC 716526 LC KD373.P45 H37 ; red cloth, no dustjacket ; "Except, perhaps, for the more recent Dreyfus affair, no criminal case of the nineteenth century has so profoundly stirred society as that revealed at the Court of assizes in Brabant, on the 22nd of December, 1882, where sentence of death was passed on the brothers Armand and Leon Peltzer for the wilful murder of Guillaume Bernays." ; "The Peltzer case , it is the most astounding true record ever penned" ; On the 7th of January, 1882, M. Bernays, a dis- tinguishedBelgian barrister, disappeared from Antwerp. On the morning of thatday he went with his little boy to school and then took the train for Brussels. He had a ticket for the Rue de la Loi station, and there it is supposed he left the train. Nothing more was heard or seen of him for ten days, When the public prosecutor of Antwerp received a letter postmarked Basle, written in English and signed simply " Vaughan, " which stated that the writer had seen accounts of M. Bernays' disappearance in the Belgian papers, and felt himself bound to explain it. He proceeded to say that M. Bernays had visited him, the writer, at his house, 159 Rue de la Loi, where he had a collection of fire-arms, being a collector. In showing his visitor a pistol he alleged that he accidentally shot him. The police immediately went to the house described as the scene of the accident, but found it necessary to enter by breaking a window, as the black- smith could not pick the door-lock. In a small parlour they found the body of M. Bernays sitting in an arm- chair, where it had probably been placed after death. Decomposition had set in and had reached an advanced stage. However, the body was immediately recognised by the public prosecutor and a neighbour who had been well acquainted with the deceased. A letter lay upon the table addressed " To the Coroner of the city of Brussels," containing a second description of the accident, also written in English and signed " Vaughan.". ; scarce edition ; G. Book.…