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Duel with the Devil, concluded

Burr as feminist:  "I hope by her (his daughter) to convince the world . . . that women have souls."
Burr the liberal; Hamilton an advocate of the property class. . . The trial is exceptionally long--two days.  It also goes until well after midnight both days. . .  Ezra Weeks, universally condemned before the trial, is exonerated by the team of Hamilton/Burr . . . Hamilton passionate and eloquent; Burr slow and precise, both effective . . . The landlord of house, Elias Ring, having an affair with Elma Sands . . . trial is transcribed (first time in US history) After the trial, immediately some quick summaries are available to hungry, scandal-loving public.  Two weeks later, the complete transcript (99 pages) is published--the first complete transcript of a trial in the USA. . . Hamilton money problems. . . Burr "invents" today's politics, getting out and hustling for votes in NYC election, hoping to sweep all offices for his liberal friends==and doing so.  Burr as Jefferson's VP is pushed aside, Jefferson shuns him . . . hard time for Burr . . . Burr is ruined financially and politically. He hears that Hamilton, at a dinner party, has heaped scorn on him.   Duel challenge. . . Hamilton not eager, but agrees.  New Jersey (legal there) . . . Hamilton shoots into trees; Burr kills Hamilton . . . reviled in NYC for the killing . . . ends up in Paris, penniless . . . returns to NYC and is a hard-working lawyer . . . never escapes the reprobation for killing Hamilton.

Well is located at 129 Spring Street in NYC
Burr's bank ends up being Chase Manhattan (Manhattan Water Works)
Real murderer is Richard Croucher, a cloth merchant who does everything he can to frame Weeks.  Croucher in England is let off for earlier crime on "insanity" plea. (Stolen boots.)  Croucher rapes his stepdaughter, convicted, released on insanity with promise to return to Britain, instead goes to Virginia

Weeks ends up in Natchez, as an architect, and finally puts his life back together

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