American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials which Have Taken Place in the United States, from the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day : with Notes and Annotations, Volume 10John Davison Lawson Thomas Law Book Company, 1914 - Crime |
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... Capt . Couzins ' return , he showed me a daguerreotype case similar to that produced . Cross - examined . Don't know the writing on the watch paper . Know the names of Gordon's father and mother , but never saw them . Either Couzins or ...
... Capt . Couzins ' return , he showed me a daguerreotype case similar to that produced . Cross - examined . Don't know the writing on the watch paper . Know the names of Gordon's father and mother , but never saw them . Either Couzins or ...
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... Capt . Couzins to a handcar which I was standing alongside a railroad track . We all got on the hand car : self , Couzins , Worrell and two other gentlemen who were along . Capt . Couzins put a pair of handcuffs on Worrell . At this point ...
... Capt . Couzins to a handcar which I was standing alongside a railroad track . We all got on the hand car : self , Couzins , Worrell and two other gentlemen who were along . Capt . Couzins put a pair of handcuffs on Worrell . At this point ...
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... Capt . Couzins thought it advisable not to arrest him immediately . We had a man watching Worrell— a constable in Dover . Went to the railroad to get hand car , and Couzins and others went to the hotel to get Worrell . Think the others ...
... Capt . Couzins thought it advisable not to arrest him immediately . We had a man watching Worrell— a constable in Dover . Went to the railroad to get hand car , and Couzins and others went to the hotel to get Worrell . Think the others ...
Page 59
... Capt . Couzins and Mr. Harrow of Vincennes went with me from Baltimore to Chestertown first and thence to Dover . Worrell had told me he was going to Dover ; that he had some friends near there . When I next saw Worrell he was in ...
... Capt . Couzins and Mr. Harrow of Vincennes went with me from Baltimore to Chestertown first and thence to Dover . Worrell had told me he was going to Dover ; that he had some friends near there . When I next saw Worrell he was in ...
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... Capt . Preston , who went down to the custom house on the fifth March , the evening mentioned in the indictments ; that the five persons named in those indictments were killed by some one or other of that party , but who they were that ...
... Capt . Preston , who went down to the custom house on the fifth March , the evening mentioned in the indictments ; that the five persons named in those indictments were killed by some one or other of that party , but who they were that ...
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Page 127 - But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly: better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our place, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
Page 737 - tis too horrible. The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 798 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 416 - Labourer, not having the fear of God before their Eyes but being moved and Seduced by the instigation of the Devil...
Page 260 - Well, gentlemen, I do not wish to take up any more of your time and thank you again for the honour you have done to me.
Page 526 - That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king ; and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.
Page 415 - A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770, by soldiers of the 2!Hh regiment; which, with the 14th regiment, were then quartered there ; with some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe. Printed by order of the Town of Boston, and sold by Edes & Gill, in Queen street, and T. & J. Fleet, in Cornhill, 1770.
Page 149 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 171 - But why should I borrow the language of Foster, or of any other man, when the language of the indictment itself is lying before our eyes? What does it say ? Does it directly charge the overt act as in itself constituting the crime ? No. It charges that the Prisoner " maliciously and traitorously did compass, imagine, and intend to raise and levy war and rebellion against the King...
Page 841 - That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...