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...CASKET LETTERS by M. H. Armstrong Davison. 352 pages. University Press of Washington, D.C., and Community College Press...
...Scots, was a wanton schemer or a woman wronged-particularly since the whole evidence of her presumed adultery and complicity in her husband's murder rests on the eleven documents that comprise the "Casket Letters." In this highly packed piece of literary sleuthing, Dr. M. H. Armstrong Davison concludes that the Casket Letters were frauds...
Wrong Victim. Davison, a British doctor and lecturer in the history of medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, spent ten years researching and analyzing everything written about Mary and the Scotland of her age to produce his defense. Some of the letters, he concludes, were written by one of Bothwell's mistresses. Others were actually written by Mary to Bothwell in the course of legitimate business, but then doctored to suggest illicit passion and intrigue. One of Mary's maids-in-waiting had been taught by the same writing master as Mary, and as a result...
...Coast Guard boarding party found three bullet-riddled bodies in the aft cabin. The body of Captain Rogelio Díaz, 38, was not on the bridge, but a trail of blood led over the side. Gone were Ramírez, Second Engineer Salomon Franco and Cook Gerald Davison-and the ship's 14-ft. dinghy...
Over the Side. The man was Ramírez, and under interrogation in Miami he admitted killing everyone on board the Seven Seas except Elwin and the cook, Davison. "They called me a Communist and a thief," he said, "so I shot them." He said that Díaz and most of the others had been bullyragging him mercilessly for his pro-Castro sympathies. He had fled Cuba last fall in a boat, leaving behind his wife and three daughters. Now he longed to return. On the night of the shooting, he had the helm on the bridge when Captain...