Heading: (Weber, Adolph Julius)
Author: Adams, Charles H., official reporter
Title: The People of the State of California, plaintiff, V. Adolph Julius Weber, Defendant. Reporter's Transcript on Trial
Place Published: [Auburn], Placer County, California
Publisher:Superior Court
Date Published: 1905
Description: Vol. III (of 3?), Pages 618 to 902. Typescript. 33.5x22 cm (13¼x8¾"), cloth covers with paper title label, brad bound.Original transcript of the latter part of one of the most famous, and infamous, murder trials in California history, with the perpetrator, then twenty years of age, robbing a bank, and later murdering his mother and younger sister, and finally his father, as part of his effort to cover up the crime. The circumstances led to the enactment of California's "Patricide Law," where inheritance was denied those who caused the death of the parent from which the inheritance came. Accompanied by a copy of the book by Lewis J. Swindle, "The Story and Trials of Adolph Julius Weber.

Cover label glue-stained, normal internal wear; very good.