caa a22 4500 38808281X CHVBK 20180307125222.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/744184 doi S0738248000006830 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/744184 Dale Elizabeth The People versus Zephyr Davis: Law and Popular Justice in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago [Elektronische Daten] [Elizabeth Dale] Shortly after 3 P.M. on February 27, 1888, Eddie Dwyer, one of the young employees at Greene's Boot Heel Factory in Chicago, began to clear empty sacks out of a closet in the rear of the factory so that coal could be loaded into the room. After pulling out roughly five sacks, Eddie called out that there seemed to be something else in the closet. Investigation established that the something else was the body of another employee, fourteen-year-old Maggie Gaughan, who had been missing all day and apparently had been hacked to death with the hatchet found beneath her body. Suspicion quickly centered on the factory foreman, a seventeen-year-old African American named Zephyr Davis, who was away from the factory on an errand at the time the body was discovered. That suspicion became certainty when Davis did not return from the errand, driven away, as he later admitted, by the crowds he saw gathered outside of Greene's when he returned. Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 1999 Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/1(1999), 27-56 0738-2480 17:1<27 1999 17 LHR https://doi.org/10.2307/744184 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/744184 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dale Elizabeth NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/1(1999), 27-56 0738-2480 17:1<27 1999 17 LHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge