The Procession to Tyburn: Crime and Punishment in the Eighteenth CenturyBoni and Liveright, 1927 - 268 trang |
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accomplices acquaintance afterwards answered appeared apprehended attended Barrington battle of Culloden Billings Blewit boat body brought Brownrigg Burnworth Calf Sound called captain carried Catherine CATHERINE HAYES committed conduct convicted court crime criminal death Donellan door Earl Edgworth Edward Marcus Despard Elizabeth Brownrigg escape evidence felons gave gentleman George Barrington guilty guineas hanged Hayes Hayes's head Hereupon husband indicted Jack Sheppard Johnson Jonathan Wild jury justice Kidd Lady Boughton likewise lived lodged London Longmore Lord Ferrers lordship magistrate Marjoram Mary morning murder Newgate night Noble o'clock observed Old Bailey persons pickpockets pirates pistol place of execution pockets prisoner procure public-house Quedah Merchant received returned robbed robberies sailed Sayer sent sentence servant Sheppard sheriff ship Sir Theodosius soon Springate stealing stolen taken into custody tence thieves tion told took trial Tyburn vessel wife Wild witness woman
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Trang 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...
Trang 239 - ... assist her; and at this juncture she contrived to , get possession of the ring without the knowledge of the owner; after which she slipped behind her companion and heard the gentleman say that as there was no probability of gaining admittance he would return. Upon his leaving the meeting he missed his ring, and mentioned his loss to the persons who were near him, adding that he suspected it to be stolen by a woman whom he had endeavoured to assist in the crowd; but as the thief was unknown she...
Trang 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.
Trang 39 - ... sewn up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and...
Trang 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.
Trang 282 - Notwithstanding this disadvantage he in half-an-hour forced open the box of the lock and opened ' the door ; but this led him to another room still more difficult, for it was barred and bolted as well as locked ; however he wrenched the fillet from the main post of the door, and the box and staples came off with it. It was now eight o'clock, and Sheppard found no...
Trang 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.
Trang 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...
Trang 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...
Trang 84 - A thief of most infamous character, named Arnold Powel, being confined in Newgate, on a charge of having robbed a house in the neighbourhood of Golden Square of property to a great amount, was visited by Jonathan, who informed him that, in consideration of a sum of money, he would save his life ; adding that if the proposal was rejected, he should inevitably die at Tyburn for the offence on account of which he was then imprisoned. The prisoner, however, not believing that it was in Wild's power to...