| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Elizabeth Dale. The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis. (The History of Crime and Criminal Justice Series.) Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2001. Pp. vii, 158. Cloth $60.00, paper $23.95.

On the afternoon of February 27, 1888, an employee of Greene's Boot Heel Factory in Chicago stumbled upon the body of another employee, fourteen-year-old Maggie Gaughan, who had been hacked to death earlier that day and hidden away in a factory closet. Few doubted that the crime had been perpetrated by Zephyr Davis, a young black man who worked as a supervisor at Greene's and who had just disappeared. Having gone out on company business, Davis apparently saw the police and a growing crowd outside the factory as he returned and chose to flee. The next day, he was apprehended in Forest, Illinois, and returned to Chicago. A month later, he was tried and convicted of murder; on May 12, Davis was executed by hanging. . . .

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