 | Socialism - 1969 - 496 pages
...forgotten, that she was very young (under lit) and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen draper'« shop, took some coarse linen off the counter, and...her cloak. The shopman saw her, and she laid it down again ; for this she was hanged. Her defence was, " that she lived in credit and wanted for nothing... | |
 | 448 pages
...circumstance not to be forgotten, that she was very young (under nineteen), 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... | |
 | American Correctional Association - Prisons - 1909 - 316 pages
...circumstance not to be forgotten, that she was very young (under nineteen) and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse...and she laid it down ; for this she was hanged. Her defense was (I have the trial in my pocket) that she had lived in credit and wanted for nothing, till... | |
 | 1820 - 568 pages
...circumstance not to be forgotten, that ' she was very young, (under nineteen,) and most remarkably ' handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse...the counter, and slipped it under her cloak ; the shop' man saw her, and she laid it down : for this she was hanged! Her ' defence was, (I have the trial... | |
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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... 
