The Suspension Bridge Robbery: A Gilded Age Legal Thriller

September 1894. A brazen ambush: Two express agents gunned down on the Waco suspension bridge, their money bag stolen in broad daylight. The police arrest a peculiar young man named Toby Topper, who's caught with the murder weapon and part of the loot. In a speedy trial, the prosecution parades a string of incriminating eyewitnesses while the oblivious Toby can only pitch back and forth in a mute stupor, and his drunken defense lawyer snores. Disgusted by the inept defense, the judge appoin...