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  2. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT.

    The following extract of a letter, we doubt not, will be read with interest, showing as it does to the advocates of capital punishments what are the natural feelings begrotten in the mind of a poor Indian. ...

    Article : 401 words
  3. THE FOLLY OP CHIME.

    The Home of Crime is in a shadowy land Where all tilings wear an aspect not their own, The seeming water is but shining sand, The temptier fruit hut hard yielding stone. ...

    Article : 609 words
  4. A. SENTIMENTAL THIEF.

    Martin Connolly, a boy only thirteen years old, and another boy, were placed at the bar. Martin was charged with stealing a quantity of cigars from the shop of Mr Wright, in Deansgate. He had ...

    Article : 477 words
  5. THE CRT OP THE FELON.

    Yes ! shackle my limbs and bind the fast, Through the hooting crowd to press Away io the judgment hall: at last The doom of my life I guess. ...

    Article : 358 words
  6. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " WORCESTER JOURNAL.

    sir—Your contemporary the Chronicle of Wednesday last contained a jeu d esprit, purporting to be an extract from a letter of one of the Ojibway Indians on the execution of a man for murder. The sentiments it ...

    Article : 721 words
  7. DEATH BY THE LAW.

    In a periodical called The Topic, there is a very good article on death punishment. The writer of the article in this periodical objects to all capital punishments, for these reasons ...

    Article : 632 words
  8. DEATH PUNISHMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 words
  9. DEATH AND THE HANGMAN.

    Up at a crazy old house top, In a dreary room, whoso walls were hang With the pictures grim of the gallows drop. And the doggard rhvmes by felons ...

    Article : 378 words
  10. A KNOTTY POINT.

    Three years ago (says a Paris paper) the courts and tribunals of Austria were consulted upon the " knotty" question, whether there was reason to change the mode of executing capital sentences. ...

    Article : 230 words
  11. "THE SUICIDE.

    My heart is o'ercharg'd with grief My reason for ever hath filed; Oh. where can I fly for relief— To where-but the home of the dead ...

    Article : 98 words
  12. EVIL EFECTS OF NOTORIETY AND DISPLAY AT PUBLIC EXECUTIONS.

    A soldier belonging to one of the regiments at present serving in India, fired at a sergeant on the parade ground of the corps, and killed him. The delinquent was tried and sentenced to suffer death. ...

    Article : 244 words
  13. THE SONG OF THE GIBB[?]T.

    The following song, says a correspondent of Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, is from the pen of my excellent friend, the veteran Moncrieff; a man whose whole life has been devoted to the ...

    Article : 1,468 words
  14. CRIME AND ITS REMEDIES.

    The Athencaum, is an article on juvenile crime, as brought before the nobleman and gentle men at the Mansion-house, on the 14th of last month, states— " All these arguments of fact lead to the inference. ...

    Article : 351 words
  15. CONSESQUENCE OF CRIME.

    In the Bristol Bankruptcy Court, lately, W. J. Dunsford, surgeon, passed his last examination. This person was the defendant in an action of aim. con. brought bY a gentleman with whose ...

    Article : 174 words
  16. Advertising

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    Advertising : 42 words
  17. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.

    The advocates of the abolition of the, punishment of death commit the mistake described by lawyers as that of "proving too much." Their reasoning carried full out, would come to the conclusion that ...

    Article : 344 words
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