Report of the Trial of John Thomson Alias Peter Walker Before the Circuit Court of Justiciary at Glosgow, 22d to 24th December 1857: For the Murder of Agnes Montgomery by Prussic Acid, and Subsequent Administration Prussic Acid to Agnes Stenhouse Or Mason and Archibald Mason |
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