The Criminal Recorder: Or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious Public Characters, Including Murderers, Traitors, Pirates, Mutineers, Incendiaries ... and Other Noted Persons who Have Suffered the Sentence of the Law for Criminal Offenses ; Embracing a Variety of Curious and Singular Cases, Anecdotes, &c, Volum 1R. Dowson, 1815 |
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Side 6
... give her a shilling as a fortune . He had likewise criminal connexions with his own sister ; which leads us to speak of the crime for which he suffered . This sister being delivered of a boy in February 1724 , Horne told his brother ...
... give her a shilling as a fortune . He had likewise criminal connexions with his own sister ; which leads us to speak of the crime for which he suffered . This sister being delivered of a boy in February 1724 , Horne told his brother ...
Side 8
... give him five pounds , he would go immediately to Liverpool , and quit the kingdom : but William's excessive avarice prevented his complying with this moderate request . Charles being examined by some magistrates in Derby- shire , they ...
... give him five pounds , he would go immediately to Liverpool , and quit the kingdom : but William's excessive avarice prevented his complying with this moderate request . Charles being examined by some magistrates in Derby- shire , they ...
Side 10
... give him a good character . " It happened that on the day appointed for his execution he bad just completed his 74th year ; and having always been accustomed to have a plum - pudding on his birth - day , he would have continued that ...
... give him a good character . " It happened that on the day appointed for his execution he bad just completed his 74th year ; and having always been accustomed to have a plum - pudding on his birth - day , he would have continued that ...
Side 22
... give security to the parish for its support , he had been sent to Bridewell , from whence he had made his escape . The man said if that was all it did not much signify , but he did not care how soon he was gone , for he did not like his ...
... give security to the parish for its support , he had been sent to Bridewell , from whence he had made his escape . The man said if that was all it did not much signify , but he did not care how soon he was gone , for he did not like his ...
Side 27
... give any , but appeared , even at the time when he was so studiously con- cealing himself , to have a distant intention of making a surrender , in order to take his trial . It is very evident his mind was not at ease , and that he was ...
... give any , but appeared , even at the time when he was so studiously con- cealing himself , to have a distant intention of making a surrender , in order to take his trial . It is very evident his mind was not at ease , and that he was ...
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accomplices acquainted Adair afterwards appeared apprehended arrival asked attended Bank of England bills body Bolland brought called captain circumstances coach committed companions conduct consequence convicted court crime daugh daughter declared discharged distress door Dublin Edgworth Elizabeth Brownrigg escape evidence father favour fire following day friends gang Gardelle gave gentleman girl guilty guineas Hereupon highwayman horse hundred pounds husband immediately indictment innocent John John Fielding Jonathan Wild jury justice KENNINGTON COMMON lady Lincolnshire lived lodged London lord lordship magistrate manner marriage morning murder Newgate night o'clock obtained offender officers Old Bailey person pistol place of execution Powis prisoner procured public-house racter received Richard Coyle robbed robbery Sarah Green Scotland seized sent sentence of death servant sheriff shillings ship soon stolen suffered taken into custody tion told took trial Tyburn unhappy vessel watch wife William witness woman young
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Side 216 - I have but one request to ask, at my departure from this world; it is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for, as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Side 109 - I have heard, my lord, the indictment read, wherein I find myself charged with the highest crime, with an enormity I am altogether incapable of ; a fact, to the commission of which there goes far more insensibility of heart, more profligacy of morals, than ever fell to my lot...
Side 111 - The place of their depositum, too, claims much more attention than is commonly bestowed upon it ; for of all places in the world, none could have mentioned any one wherein there was greater certainty of finding human bones than a hermitage, except he should point out a churchyard ; hermitages, in time past, being not only places of religious retirement, but of burial too...
Side 74 - ... be taken to the place from whence you came, and from thence you are to be drawn on hurdles, to the place of execution,. where you are to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead...
Side 112 - ... 1. The bones, as was supposed, of the Saxon, St. Dubritius, were discovered buried in his cell at Guy's Cliff near Warwick, as appears from the authority of Sir William Dugdale. 2. The bones, thought to be those of the anchoress...
Side 113 - Another particular seems not to claim a little of your lordship's notice, and that of the gentlemen of the jury; which is, that perhaps no example occurs of more than one skeleton being found in one cell : and in the cell in question was found but one ; agreeable, in this, to the peculiarity of every other known cell in Britain. Not the invention of one skeleton, but of two, would have appeared suspicious and uncommon. But it seems another skeleton has been discovered by some labourer, which was...
Side 311 - I begged to have the liberty to listen at the door where he died, I was not allowed it. My keys were taken from me; my shoe-buckles and garters too — to prevent me from making away with myself, as though I was the most abandoned creature.
Side 215 - I shall not forbear to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions ; and, as a man to whom fame is dearer than life, I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honor and love, and for whom I am proud to perish.
Side 109 - My lord," began Aram, in that remarkable defence still extant, and still considered as wholly unequalled from the lips of one defending his own cause ; — my lord, I know not whether it is of right, or through some indulgence of your lordship, that I am allowed the liberty, at this bar, and at this time, to attempt a defence ; incapable and uninstructed as I am to speak. Since, while I see BO many eyes upon me.
Side 214 - French — in the dignity of freedom, 1 would have expired on the threshold of that country, and they should have entered it only by passing over my lifeless corpse. Is it, then, to be supposed, that I would be slow to make the same sacrifice to my native land ? Am I, who...