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Title: Harry Farrell Papers
Dates: 1940-1997
Collection Number: 2007-6
Creator/Collector:
Farrell, Harry
Extent: 7 linear feet
Repository:
History San Jose Research Library
Abstract: Material accumulated by author and journalist Harry Farrell during his research for books Shallow Grave in Trinity County
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997) and Swift Justice: Murder and Vengeance in a California Town (New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1992) as well as personal correspondence and mementos from service during World War II.
Language of Material: English
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Harry Farrell Papers. History San Jose Research Library
Donated to History San Jose by the Harry Farrell Trust in 2007.
Scope and Content of Collection
Material accumulated by author and journalist Harry Farrell during his research for books Shallow Grave in Trinity County
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997) and Swift Justice: Murder and Vengeance in a California Town (New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1992) as well as personal correspondence and mementos from service during World War II. Farrell researched the kidnapping
of Brooke Leopold Hart and subsequent vigilante justice in San Jose for Swift Justice; his book Shallow Grave in Trinity County
Recounts the murder of fourteen-year-old Stephanie Bryan in 1955 near Berkeley, California, and the subsequent trial and execution
in 1957 of Burton Abbott of Alameda. Includes research notes, correspondence, photographs, copies of evidence used at trial,
and grave site soil samples.
Murder--Investigation--California--Case studies
Soldiers--United States--Correspondence
Abbott, Burton W., -1957
Bryan, Stephanie
Hart, Brooke Leopold
Thurmond, Harold
Holmes, Jack
San Jose (Calif.)
Berkeley (Calif.)