The Procession to Tyburn: Crime and Punishment in the Eighteenth Century

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Boni and Liveright, 1927 - 268 էջ

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Էջ 100 - ... wherever any person taketh money or reward directly or indirectly under pretence or upon account of helping any person or persons to any stolen goods or chattels, every such person...
Էջ 252 - ... 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...
Էջ 220 - ... if he had anything to say as to why sentence should not be pronounced.
Էջ 93 - II. That he had formed a kind of corporation of thieves, of which he was the head or director ; and that notwithstanding his pretended services in detecting and prosecuting offenders, he procured such only to be hanged as concealed their booty, or refused to share it with him.
Էջ 39 - ... sewn up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and...
Էջ 94 - That he had, under his care and direction, several warehouses for receiving and concealing stolen goods; and also a ship for carrying off jewels, watches, and other valuable goods, to Holland, where he had a superannuated thief for his factor.
Էջ 184 - ... severity; and at another time, when the mother had been whipping her in the kitchen till she was absolutely tired, the son renewed the savage treatment. Mrs. Brownrigg would sometimes seize the poor girl by the cheeks, and forcing the skin down violently with her fingers, cause the blood to gush from her eyes.
Էջ 117 - Hall, took an opportunity, when the officers were conducting Marjoram before the lord mayor, to fire at him ; but Marjoram, observing him advancing, stooped down, so that the ball grazed his back only. The suddenness of this action, and the surprise it occasioned, gave Barton an opportunity of effecting his escape. About this time one Wilson, who had likewise belonged to the gang, quitted London; but, being apprehended about two years afterwards, he was hanged at Kingston, in Surrey.
Էջ 276 - ... in May-Fair, he took an opportunity of carrying off a sum of money, a quantity of plate, some gold rings and four suits of clothes. Not long after this Edgworth Bess was apprehended and lodged in the Round-house of the parish of St. Giles's, where Sheppard went to visit her, and the beadle...
Էջ 189 - After sentence of death was passed on Mrs. Brownrigg she was attended by a clergyman, to whom she confessed the enormity of her crime, and acknowledged the justice of the sentence by which she had been condemned. The parting between her and her husband and son, on the morning of her execution, was affecting beyond description. The son falling on his knees, she bent herself over him and embraced him; while the husband was kneeling on the other side. On her way to the fatal tree the people expressed...

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