 | Unitarianism - 1845 - 572 pages
...two small children (one at the breast), turned into the streets — a beggar. She went to a draper's shop — took some coarse linen off the counter, and...her, and she laid it down. For this she was hanged ! — hanged under the provisions of the shoplifting act, the abolition of the death penalty of which,... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...forgotten, that she was тегу young, (under 19,) and most remarkably handsome She went to a lincndrapcr's shop, took some coarse linen off the counter, and...had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a pressgang came and stole her husband from her, but since then she had no bed to lie on, nothing to... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...short and trifling, and the reward eternal. mention. She was very young, and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse...it down : for this she was hanged. Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), " that she had lived in credit and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...executed, whose case I shall just mention. She was very young, and most remarkably handsome. She went to ft linen-draper's shop, took some coarse linen off the...it down : for this she was hanged. Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), " that she had lived in credit and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...short and trifling, and the reward eternal. mention. She was very young, and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse linen off the counter, and slipped it under her eloak ; the shopman saw her, and she bud it down : for this she was hanged. Her defence was (I have... | |
 | Aaron Venable Brown - Tennessee - 1854 - 608 pages
...forgotten, that she was very young (under nineteen) and remarkably handsome. She went to a linen draper's shop, took some coarse linen off the counter and slipped...was, that she had lived in credit, and wanted for •othing until a press-gang came and stole her husband from her; but since then, she had no rrefiltp... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse linen ofli this counter, and slipiK-d it under her cloak ; the shopman saw her, and she laid it down : lor this she was hanged. Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), "that she had lived in... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...(under " nineteen), and most remarkably handsome. . . Her defence was (I have the trial " in my pocket) that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press" gang came and stole her husband from her. . . It was at the time when press" warrants wei»issued... | |
 | George Washington Quinby - Almshouses - 1856 - 344 pages
...than eighteen, and remarkably handsome. She went to a linen draper's — took some coarse linen from the counter, and. slipped it under her cloak. The...shop-man saw her, and she laid it down. FOR THIS SHE WAS EXECUTED. Her defense was, that she had lived in credit and wanted nothing, till a press-gang came,... | |
 | George Washington Quinby - Almshouses - 1856 - 334 pages
...than eighteen, and remarkably handsome. She went to a linen draper's - — took some coarse linen from the counter, and slipped it under her cloak. The shop-man saw her, and she laid it down. TOR THIS SHE WAS EXECUTED. Her defense was, that she had lived in credit and wanted nothing, till a... | |
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Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), ' that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang came and stole her husband from her ; but, since then... 
