The Criminal Recorder: Or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious Public Characters, Volumen3J. Cundee, 1804 |
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... OFFENCES . Embracing a variety of CURIOUS AND SINGULAR CASES , ANECDOTES , & c . WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES : TO WHICH IS ADDED , AN ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS INFLICTED ON THOSE WHO TRANSGRESS THE LAWS OF THEIR COUNTRY ; With a ...
... OFFENCES . Embracing a variety of CURIOUS AND SINGULAR CASES , ANECDOTES , & c . WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES : TO WHICH IS ADDED , AN ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS INFLICTED ON THOSE WHO TRANSGRESS THE LAWS OF THEIR COUNTRY ; With a ...
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... OFFENCES . Embracing a variety of CURIOUS AND SINGULAR CASES , ANECDOTES , & c . WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES : TO WHICH IS ADDED , AN ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS INFLICTED ON THOSE WHO TRANSGRESS THE LAWS OF THEIR COUNTRY ; With a ...
... OFFENCES . Embracing a variety of CURIOUS AND SINGULAR CASES , ANECDOTES , & c . WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES : TO WHICH IS ADDED , AN ACCOUNT OF THE VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS INFLICTED ON THOSE WHO TRANSGRESS THE LAWS OF THEIR COUNTRY ; With a ...
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... Jews Women , Disorderly , how punished in China Wood , Block of , a punishment in China Wooden Cage , in China ib . ib . 412 ib . Collar , in ditto Tube , in ditto Writs 413 414 ib . CRIMINAL OFFENCES , & c . & c . A viii CONTENTS .
... Jews Women , Disorderly , how punished in China Wood , Block of , a punishment in China Wooden Cage , in China ib . ib . 412 ib . Collar , in ditto Tube , in ditto Writs 413 414 ib . CRIMINAL OFFENCES , & c . & c . A viii CONTENTS .
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Or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious Public Characters. CRIMINAL OFFENCES , & c . & c . A ACCOMPLICES . CCOMPLICES ought not to suffer so severe a punishment as the immediate perpe- trator of the crime ; but this for a different reason ...
Or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious Public Characters. CRIMINAL OFFENCES , & c . & c . A ACCOMPLICES . CCOMPLICES ought not to suffer so severe a punishment as the immediate perpe- trator of the crime ; but this for a different reason ...
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... Offences of a hidden nature could never be brought to light , without the law had this recourse ; therefore it is just , because expedient for the sake of justice , sometimes to pardon an accomplice . Editor . ACCUSATIONS , SECRET AND ...
... Offences of a hidden nature could never be brought to light , without the law had this recourse ; therefore it is just , because expedient for the sake of justice , sometimes to pardon an accomplice . Editor . ACCUSATIONS , SECRET AND ...
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accomplices accused afterwards appear assizes attended base money Beccaria benefit of clergy Blastock carried Chelmsford circumstances coach Colquhoun committed concealed condemned confessed consequence constable convicts counterfeit court crime criminal dealers death degree depredations discharged evidence evil execution expence felony frauds fraudulent friends gentleman guilty Herefordshire high treason highwayman horse Ibid imprisonment infamy inflicted innocent Jeffries Jews John Fielding judge jury justice Kidderminster labour Langston harbour larceny laws liberty live London Lord magistrates manner Mary Mary Kendall master Matthews means ment metropolis mind mistress murder nature necessary Newgate night nishment obtained offence officers Old Bailey ostler pardon party passions person pistol plunder police present prisoner proofs punishment quarter sessions racter river Thames robbed robbery sentence servants shillings ships silver society soon species stealing Stirn suffered Swan thieves tion took torture town treason trial Tyburn unhappy watchmen young
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Página 288 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 376 - King, . . . and until the end of the next session of parliament after a demise of the crown, shall, within the realm or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend death or destruction, or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maim or wounding, imprisonment or restraint...
Página 66 - So dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders. The injured, through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute: juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget their oaths, and either acquit the guilty or mitigate the nature of the offence : and judges, through compassion, will respite one half of the convicts, and recommend them to the royal mercy.
Página 310 - And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church : but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Página 25 - ... if any person shall enter into the mansion •• or dwelling house of another by day or by night, without " breaking the same, with an intent to commit felony, or " being in such house shall commit any felony, and shall in " the night time break the said house to get out of the same...
Página 218 - ... has the writings of my houses; but I hope in God, when they are sold and all other matters collected, there will be nearly enough to settle our account. May Almighty God bless you and yours with comfort and happiness ; and may you ever be a stranger to the pangs I now feel ! May Heaven protect my beloved woman, and forgive this act, which alone could relieve me from a world of misery I have long endured ! Oh ! if it should ever be in your power to do her an act of friendship, remember your faithful...
Página 247 - As punishments become more mild, clemency and pardon are less necessary. Happy the nation in which they will be considered as dangerous ! Clemency, which has often been deemed a sufficient substitute for every other virtue in sovereigns, should be excluded in a perfect legislation where punishments are mild, and the proceedings in criminal cases regular and expeditious.
Página 216 - ... to the playhouse, where he waited till the play was over. Seeing Miss Reay ready to step into the coach, he took a pistol in each hand, one of which he discharged against her, which killed her on the spot, and the other at himself, which, however, did not take effect. He then beat himself with...
Página 247 - To show mankind, that crimes are sometimes pardoned, and that punishment is not the necessary consequence, is to nourish the flattering hope of impunity, and is the cause of their considering every punishment inflicted as an act of injustice and oppression.
Página 3 - They rifled his portmanteau undisturbed, and settled the plan of putting him to death. — The gentleman hearing all this, and not knowing by what means he was to be rescued, it may naturally be supposed, was under great perturbation of mind during such an awful interval of suspense; -when, at the moment the villains...