Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

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LibriVox recording of Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward. Read in English by Jim Gallagher; PhyllisV; Ciufi Galeazzi; Kristine Bekere; SteveMiller; Elizabeth Miles; 5Tommy00; Blake Butler; DuckTD; Peter Musgrove; Dale Grothmann; John; Andrea Kotzer; Linda Johnson; Beau Wood; Jervis Hudson; Username146; Scotty Smith; Theophania; Lynne T; Colleen McMahon "If there be a haunted spot in London it must surely be a few square yards that lie a little west of the Marble Arch, for in the long course of some six centuries over fifty thousand felons, traitors and martyrs took there a last farewell of a world they were too bad or too good to live in. From remote antiquity, when the seditious were taken _ad furcas Tyburnam_, until that November day in 1783 when John Austin closed the long list, the gallows were kept ever busy, and during the first half of the eighteenth century, with which this book deals, every Newgate sessions sent thither its thieves, highwaymen and coiners by the score." We have a strange fascination with crime and criminals; and…

Directors & creators

Arthur L. Hayward

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;robbery; murderer; death penalty; execution; highwaymen; newgate; tyburn; hanging

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