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Henry Bedlow (1767-1838) was a New York gentleman who became notorious in the fall of 1793 when he was prosecuted for the rape of seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer during a sensational trial. The jury reportedly deliberated for only fifteen minutes before acquitting him. Bedlow’s acquittal provoked waves of outrage that included a series of riots in the city and an extended newspaper debate. In an era before stenographic court reporting, William Wyche’s Report of the Trial of Henry Bedlow (New York, 1793), was the first published report of an American rape trial.

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