A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 18Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816 - Trials |
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... strange to my imagina- tion , my lord , that it should be suspected , that a man employed 30 years ago , to make a cradle , could be guilty of any contrivance . .Court . But this contrivance may be within these four months , these six ...
... strange to my imagina- tion , my lord , that it should be suspected , that a man employed 30 years ago , to make a cradle , could be guilty of any contrivance . .Court . But this contrivance may be within these four months , these six ...
Page 113
... strange sort of a name , I cannot recollect it now . How long do you say you lived in the ser- vice before the birth ? --- Near hand a quarter of a year . And how long after ? --- About half a year . Where were you at the time of the ...
... strange sort of a name , I cannot recollect it now . How long do you say you lived in the ser- vice before the birth ? --- Near hand a quarter of a year . And how long after ? --- About half a year . Where were you at the time of the ...
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... strange lady ? -She was . Do you remember any quarrel upon the ac- count of beating a man at the assizes ? -Yes , I remember it very well , and have reason to remember it . Serj . Tisdall . My lord , I do not see to what this ...
... strange lady ? -She was . Do you remember any quarrel upon the ac- count of beating a man at the assizes ? -Yes , I remember it very well , and have reason to remember it . Serj . Tisdall . My lord , I do not see to what this ...
Page 245
... strange . Says he , You shall go back to Camolin again ; there are a good pack of hounds for you , but your favourite hound Forrester is dead . You can be of great service to me ; I shall pay you what I owe you , and double the quantity ...
... strange . Says he , You shall go back to Camolin again ; there are a good pack of hounds for you , but your favourite hound Forrester is dead . You can be of great service to me ; I shall pay you what I owe you , and double the quantity ...
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... Strange : The KING against CЯETWYND . The defendant was tried the last sessions at the Old Bailey for the murder of Mr. Thomas Ricketts , and the jury brought in the following Special Verdict : " That Thomas Ricketts , on the 26th of ...
... Strange : The KING against CЯETWYND . The defendant was tried the last sessions at the Old Bailey for the murder of Mr. Thomas Ricketts , and the jury brought in the following Special Verdict : " That Thomas Ricketts , on the 26th of ...
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