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Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9781332227617
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Excerpt from Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who Have Been Condemned and Executed for Murder, Highway Robberies, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining, or Other Offences, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Year 1720 to the Year 1735, Collected From Original Papers and Authentic Memoirs Perhaps there are few works which afford a larger fund of instruction and entertainment than those devoted to criminal annals; and the present reprint of an old collection, embracing many extraordinary Instances of crime, some of the actors in which are not yet forgotten - in support of which may be named the astounding career of Jonathan Wild, the thief-taker, and the exploits of Jack Sheppard, of Newgate renown - cannot fail to prove interesting alike to the general reader, to the legal student, and to the historian. To the first, the numerous accounts of the doings of highwaymen, pirates, and other notorious criminals, accompanied with thrilling incidents, and described with a quaintness of expression and minuteness of detail which attest their truth, will yield a plentiful supply of entertainment; nor will the light which is incidentally thrown upon the social and domestic habits, manners, and customs of the people prove without interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.