The History of the State of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations volume 6
The History of the State of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations volume 6
Thomas Williams Bicknell
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34, or $7 per annum, by changing £40 Colonial currency to the decimal system. The sensation of the years 1799-1801, was the libel suit brought against Governor Fenner by one John Dorrance, of Providence, a lawyer and a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Providence county, a man of respectable literary ability, of adequate law knowledge, and of the strictest integrity- The suit grew out of the filching of the body of a suicide from a grave in Scituate by some medical students of Providence. ...The slander was "that the judge having had the body confided to him for decent burial, sold it for dissection to Doctor Pardon Bowen for a beaver hat, and furthermore had the impudence to wear the hat in town meeting, when he presided as moderator. " Governor Fenner pleaded not guilty, though he did not deny uttering the slander. The case was conducted with masterly ability by Ray Greene, James Burrill, and Nathaniel Searle, for Judge Dorrance, and David Howell, Arthur Robbins and Daniel Lyman for the defendant.
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