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, Հատոր 1R. Dowson, 1815 |
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... never made any considerable progress . The father allowed him the use of his hounds , and furnished him with a horse and gun . Horne took delight in the sports of the field : but there were other pleasures to which he was , at least ...
... never made any considerable progress . The father allowed him the use of his hounds , and furnished him with a horse and gun . Horne took delight in the sports of the field : but there were other pleasures to which he was , at least ...
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... never failed to beg that they would in- tercede with the king for a pardon , to which he thought that his singular dexterity gave him some pretentions . Having been already convicted , he was carried to the bar of the court of King's ...
... never failed to beg that they would in- tercede with the king for a pardon , to which he thought that his singular dexterity gave him some pretentions . Having been already convicted , he was carried to the bar of the court of King's ...
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... never attempted , however , to 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 ...
... never attempted , however , to 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 ...
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... never went out of his room , except into the lobby to consult his Counsel . He lived well , and was at times very facetious , casy in his manners , and pleasant in conversation ; but during the night he frequently sat up in his bed and ...
... never went out of his room , except into the lobby to consult his Counsel . He lived well , and was at times very facetious , casy in his manners , and pleasant in conversation ; but during the night he frequently sat up in his bed and ...
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... never having quitted the bed of his cell from the day of condemnation till the morning of his execution . The crowd , though prodigious , was said to be not so great as that which attended the execution of Adamson and Wilkinson for ...
... never having quitted the bed of his cell from the day of condemnation till the morning of his execution . The crowd , though prodigious , was said to be not so great as that which attended the execution of Adamson and Wilkinson for ...
Common terms and phrases
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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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...