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- [1920]-2015 (Creation)
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9pp
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Printout of Price, Eliphalet (1920), 'The Trial and Execution of Patrick O'Conner at the Dubuque Mines in the Summer of 1834', The Palimpsest 1, no. 2, as printed from http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/firstmurder.htm by Marion Casey in 2015, plus Casey's email to Kerby A. Miller forwarding the article. The article describes the 1834 murder of George O'Keaf by County Cork native Patrick O'Conner (or O'Connor) in the Dubuque, Iowa lead-mining region during a time when formal legal institutions had not yet been established in the recently acquired Black Hawk Purchase, leading local settlers to administer justice through informal community courts. Following a public trial conducted by local residents, O'Conner was convicted and executed.