Trial of John R. Buzzell, the Leader of the Convent Rioters, for Arson and Burglary Committed on the Night of the 11th of August, 1834, by the Destruction of the Convent on Mount Benedict, in Charlestown, Massachusetts: Containing the Arguments of Counsel, Judge's Charge, &cTrial held before the Supreme Judicial Court in East Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 2, 1834. |
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