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In a high-profile 1889 case that shook Dublin, Samuel Childs was accused of murdering his brother Thomas. Thanks to a brilliant defense by the attorney Seymour Bushe, Samuel Childs was acquitted. James Joyce attended the trial as a young man.
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Childs Murder Case Term Timeline in Ulysses
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Episode 6: Hades
...paying Milly a surprise visit. But after passing a miserable tramp and a house where the Childs murder took place, Bloom decides not to visit Milly unannounced.
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Episode 7: Aeolus
...insists that Ireland still has excellent jurists, like Seymour Bushe, who defended the accused in the Childs murder case. This case reminds Stephen of the scene in Hamlet when the king’s ghost explains...
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Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun
...ghost, holding a book of Irish literature and a vial of poison. He confesses to the Childs murder and declares that he’s being haunted by his victim’s spirit, then vanishes (and briefly reappears...
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