Poor Innocent Lad
The Tragic Death of Gill Jamieson and the Execution of Myles Fukunaga
Will be published approx. on 26. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
370 pages
978-1-949135-01-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Mas. Gill Jamieson, poor innocent lad, has departed for the Unknown, a forlorn ‘Walking Shadow’ in the Great Beyond, where we all go to when the time comes."
Those words, printed in a handwritten letter delivered to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on the morning of September 20, 1928, told the city of Honolulu that 10-year-old Gill Jamieson, the only son of Hawaiian Trust Company vice president Frederick Jamieson, was dead. What had begun as the search for a kidnap victim quickly turned into a search for Gill’s body and for his killer—a 19-year-old Japanese man named Myles Fukunaga. Poor Innocent Lad: The Tragic Death of Gill Jamieson and the Execution of Myles Fukunaga uses trial transcripts and court documents, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, official government records, and a detailed confession from the killer, himself, to tell this tragic story of the kidnapping and murder of young Gill, and the arrest, trial, conviction and execution of Myles.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-949135-01-5 (9781949135015)
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ABOUT THE EDITORMIKE FARRIS, the elder son of Dr. T.V. "Corky" Farris," is a retired attorney whose law practice in Dallas included commercial litigation and entertainment law focusing on the movie and publishing industries. He is a 1983 cum laude graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, where he was associate editor of the Texas Tech Law Review and was inducted into the honor society Order of the Coif. He has served as chair of the Dallas Bar Association's Entertainment Art and Sports Law Section and the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section, where he also served as editor of the section's Entertainment and Sports Law Journal.Mike is a multi-time published author of both fiction and nonfiction, including the Amazon best-selling Hawaiian true crime book, A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow. His most recent non-fiction book, the Amazon bestselling Blowhard: Windbaggery and the Wretched Ethics of Clarence Darrow, is an analysis of, and commentary on, four seminal cases in the career of Clarence Darrow.Mike is also an adjunct professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, and a course of his design called Lawyers in Popular Culture. In addition to writing and teaching at UTA, he is a book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books, with more than 85 published reviews.