Cheating the Hangman single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1872... 1872 Cheating the Hangman
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On the discrimination suffered by Jews, and how a mother persuades her conscienceless murdering son to take poison in his cell before publicly disgracing his people in a trial. Very heavy-handed; sententiously legal. Mother as killer is compared to Rizpah in the bible. (PB)

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