The Fatal Effects of Gambling Exemplified in the Murder of Wm. Weare, and the Trial and Fate of John Thurtell, the Murderer, and His Accomplices: With Biographical Sketches of the Parties Concerned ... To which is Added, the Gambler's Scourge; a Complete Exposé of the Whole System of Gambling in the MetropolisT. Kelly, 1824 - 512 oldal |
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
24th of October affidavit afterwards appeared Artichoke asked bert blood body brought called carpet-bag chaise circumstances clothes committed confession Coroner counsel Court crime Cross-examined deceased defence Edgeware Elstree evidence examined fact feelings Friday gaol Gentlemen Gill's Hill gray horse guilty Gurney half-past heard Hertford hour Hunt and Thurtell Hunt's indictment John Thurtell Joseph Hunt Justice PARK King's Bench prison knew knife lane learned friend learned Judge London Lord Lordship magistrates mind Miss Noyes morning murder never Nicholls's night nine o'clock Noel o'clock observed occasion persons pistol pond pounds present prisoner Hunt Probert Probert's cottage proceeded produced Radlett received recollect returned Richard Hunt sack soners statement Sunday sworn taken tell Tetsall's Thessiger thing Thomas Thurtell Thur Thurtell and Hunt Thurtell's told took trial verdict Watford Weare wife Wilson witness
Népszerű szakaszok
296. oldal - For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
379. oldal - ... and shall pay or deliver the same or any part thereof, the person or persons so losing and paying or delivering the same, shall be at liberty, within three months...
222. oldal - Barbarous father, your cruelty in having put it out of my power ever to join my fate to that of the only man I could love, and tyrannically insisting upon my marrying one whom I always hated, has made me form a resolution to put an end to an existence which is become a burden to me.
225. oldal - Jennings, whom they found fast asleep ; his pockets were searched, and from one of them was drawn a purse containing exactly nineteen guineas, which the gentleman identified. Jennings was dragged out of bed and charged with the robbery. He denied it most solemnly ; but the facts having been deposed to on oath by the gentleman and Mr. Brunell, he was committed for trial. So strong did the circumstances appear against Jennings, that several of his friends advised him to plead guilty, and throw himself...
380. oldal - Games aforesaid, or for the reimbursing or repaying any Money knowingly lent, or advanced for such gaming or betting, as aforesaid, or lent or advanced at the Time and Place of such Play, to any Person or Persons so gaming or betting...
286. oldal - That you be carried from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead ; and may the Lord have mercy on your soul...
151. oldal - Thurtell searched the deceased's pockets, and found a pocket-book containing three five pound notes, a memorandum book, and some silver. John Thurtell said, "This is all he has got, I took the watch and purse when I killed him.
224. oldal - Pray, Sir, what time in the evening was it ?" — " It was just setting in to be dark."— " The time confirms my suspicions !" Mr. Brunell then informed the gentleman that he had a waiter, one John Jennings, who had, of late, been so very full of money...
229. oldal - I am incapable of any dishonourable action. Those who know me best, know that I am utterly incapable of an unjust and dishonourable action, much less of the horrid crime with which I am now charged. There is not, I think, one in this court who does not think me innocent of the charge. If there be, to him or them I say, in the language of the apostle, ' Would to' God ye were altogether suc.h as I am, save these bonds.
295. oldal - And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men every where to repent ; because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained : whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.