The Trial of Levi Weeks, or the Manhattan Well Mystery - Story of the First Recorded Murder Trial in United States History, New York, 1800 (Hardcover)

On December 22, 1799, at about 8 o'clock in the evening, a young woman named Gulielma Sands left her boarding house in New York City and was never again seen alive. The fascinating trial of her fiance, Levi Weeks, began on March 31, 1800 at New York's City Hall. His defense attorneys were Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and Brockholst Livingston. This is the first American murder trial ever to have been recorded