The Canning WonderA. A. Knopf, 1926 - 277 pages Elizabeth Canning was an Englishwoman who claimed that she had been abducted and her kidnappers tried to force her to become a prostitute. She ended up being convicted for perjury. |
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Page 22 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 23 - ... wisely withdraw themselves from a trial which would involve them in ruin. Had 1 considered the case of the defendants alone, without regard to any other person, I should have thought it needless to give the Court any trouble upon this occasion. They are private countrymen, without any connexions in this part of the world, and totally unconcerned at any reports which may prevail here: — within the narrow circle of their acquaintance, their characters will remain unblemished, let fame do its...
Page 189 - Damn the bitch, how drunk she is! When they came up to the stile, the tall one got over first and the hindmost lifted her over by either one leg or both legs; she came down upright on the other side; then she hung back, and fell on her breech upon the step, and cried bitterly.
Page 169 - Adamson set his back araiust a window, and asked her what she had ever observed out of that window ? She said, hills at a distance. Which window was this ?—That next to the fire-place. She had told us there was a pewter bason there, and a saddle; but when we came there, there were two saddles.
Page 252 - God of truth in the most solemn manner, and upon the most awful occasion, to attest a falsehood — to imprecate the vengeance of heaven upon her guilty head — to prostitute the law of the land to the vilest purpose — to triumph in the...
Page 21 - Norwood, in the lifetime of the aforesaid Thomas Gray, viz. the second day of April, in the second and third years of the reign of the lord the King and lady the Queen now, at London, in the parish of St. Sepulchre, in the ward of Farringdon without, at the special instance and request of the aforesaid Thomas Gray...
Page 46 - I bad seen her abroad somewhere or other; she said, she could not: I asked her, if she could talk Portuguese? she said, No: I said, Nor French ? she said, No: Nor Dutch? No: she said she knew what I said, but could not answer me. Upon this an old gentleman said, You must cant to her, talk gypsey to her, and she'll answer you. Then I said, You are one of the family of the scamps ; she said, No, I am no scamp ; and a young man in the room said her name was Squires.
Page 125 - These are the words ofthat letter: — " Mr. Lyon, I am informed by Mr. Aldridge, who has been at Enfield, that if a person be appointed there to receive contributions, some money may be raised in that place for the unhappy poor girl. 1 wish you success, and am yours.
Page 226 - Because 1 worked in the yard, and the horse was missing, and I happened to speak a word to the man that was with her: I asked him, what he would give me to help him to his horse again ? so he went and told her directly.
Page 252 - Of all the crimes (says he) the human heart can conceive, perjury is the most impious and detestable. But the guilt of this person is so transcendent as to defy aggravation. To call upon the God of truth, in the most solemn form, and on the most awful occasion, to attest a falsehood — to imprecate the vengeance of Heaven upon her guilty head — to prostitute the law of the land to the vilest purpose — to triumph in the...