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Execution! : a full and particular account of Samuel Maxwell, who was executed at the head of Libberton Wynd, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, on Wednesday morning, the 17th January, 1821, for stouthrief and robbery, committed in the honse of Mr. Arneil, near Glasgow, last year ; A full account of the trial and sentence of James Gordon, who is to be executed on the 6th day of June next, for the barbarous and horrid murder of a poor pedlar boy : also an aceount of the apprehension of that notorious offender Haggart, who broke Dumfries jail, murdered the turnkey, and madt his escape from two other jails since the murder.

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Book
Series:
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Maxwell, Samuel--Death and burial.
Maxwell, Samuel.
Elliot, John--Death and burial.
Elliot, John.
Gordon, James--Trials, litigation, etc.
Gordon, James.
Haggart.
Executions and executioners.
Theft.
Trials (Murder).
Genre:
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (2 pages).
Manufacture:
Edinburgh : Priented for James Lindsay, [1819]
Other Title:
Execution! : a full and particular account of Samuel Maxwell, who was executed at the head of Libberton Wynd, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, on Wednesday morning, the 17th January, 1821, for stouthrief and robbery, committed in the house of Mr. Arneil, near Glasgow, last year
Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1821]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Caption title.
Reproduction of the original from the British Library.
Contains:
Full account of the trial and sentence of James Gordon, who is to be executed on the 6th day of June next, for the barbarous and horrid murder of a poor pedlar boy : also an aceount of the apprehension of that notorious offender Haggart, who broke Dumfries jail, murdered the turnkey, and madt his escape from two other jails since the murder.
Full account of the trial and sentence of James Gordon, who is to be executed on the 6th day of June next, for the barbarous and horrid murder of a poor pedlar boy : also an account of the apprehension of that notorious offender Haggart, who broke Dumfries jail, murdered the turnkey, and made his escape from two other jails since the murder.
OCLC:
937012322
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