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Product Name:
ADA AND THE DOC: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADA LEBOEUF-THOMAS DREHER MURDER CASE (PB) |
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| Product ID:
9781887366359 |
| Category:
History |
| Price:
$7.50 |
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Description:
Ada and the Doc: An Account of the Ada Leboeuf-Thomas Dreher Murder Case
Charles M. Hargroder
Featuring the first woman executed in the state of Louisiana. It was a brutal murder, carried out in Morgan City in 1927, but where was the evidence other than conflicting confessions and testimony by Ada LeBoeuf, Dr. Thomas Dreher, and the trapper, James Beadle, who later recanted? Then, there was the post-sentence petition by 11 of the 12 convicting jurors asking clemency to replace the death sentence with life imprisonment. Ada and Dr. Dreher were identified in newspapers as lovers, a point never explored as a motive by the prosecution and raised only by attorneys (without proof) for Beadle, a co-defendant. Yet, Mrs. LeBoeuf and Dr. Dreher were found guilty and sentenced to hang, touching off an almost hysterical public appeal for clemency. Nevertheless, the pair were executed, the first time in 116 years of statehood that Louisiana had sent a woman to the gallows. The LeBoeuf-Dreher murder case thus became a part of Louisiana's rich and colourful past. |
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