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Innocence preserved : being an authentic account, of the extraordinary case of a merchant of considerable consequence, in Dublin, who was lately tried for having committed a street-robbery : the particulars of his trial and conviction, when, at the moment sentence of death was going to be passed, the real criminal, a Mr. Leeson, came forward in the court, and ... confessed his guilt, proved his being a gentleman who was reduced to such an act by necessity : also, how he was pardoned, and received a place of 700l. per ann. from the Lord Lieutenant.
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