Remarkable instances of circumstantial evidence, given on trials for criminal acts, which has resulted in the conviction and execution of innocent persons: together with after disclosures

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J. Post, 1833 - 48 Seiten

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Seite 9 - Dublin for a crime of the same stamp, and there condemned and executed. Between his conviction and execution, and again at the fatal tree, he confessed himself to be the very Thomas Geddely who had committed the robbery at York for which the unfortunate James Crow had been executed. We must add, that a gentleman, an inhabitant of York, happening to be in Dublin at the time of Geddely's trial and execution, and who knew him when he lived with Mrs Williams, declared that the resemblance between the...
Seite 12 - Jennings being in liquor, he sent him to bed, resolving to discharge him in the morning ; that at the time he returned him the guinea, he discovered it was not the same he had given him, but was marked, of which he took no further notice until he heard the particulars of the robbery, and that the guineas which the highwayman had taken were all marked. He added, that he had unluckily paid away the marked guinea to a man who lived at some distance.
Seite 25 - ... of which quarrel, the juryman had unfortunately stabbed him with that very pitchfork, and had then got away totally unsuspected ; but finding, soon after, that the other person had been apprehended, on suspicion of being the murderer, and fearing, as the circumstances appeared so strong against him, that he should be convicted, although not guilty, he had contrived to get upon the jury, as the only way of saving the innocent without endangering himself.
Seite 28 - About four years after, the witness was extremely ill, and understanding that there were no possible hopes of her recovery, she confessed that her father and brother having offended her, she was determined they should both die; and, accordingly, when the former went to milk the cow, she followed him with her brother's hammer, and in his shoes; that she...
Seite 14 - The prosecutor swore to the being robbed ; but that, it being nearly dark, the highwayman in a mask, and himself greatly terrified, he could not swear to the prisoner's person, though he thought him of much the same stature as the man who robbed him. To the purse and guineas, which were produced in court, he swore, — as to the purse, positively, — and as to the marked guineas, to the best of his belief, and that they were found in the prisoner's pocket.
Seite 10 - Shaw and her father, but was particularly struck with the repetition of the above words, she having pronounced them loudly and emphatically. For some little time after the father was gone out, all was silent, but presently Morrison heard several groans from the daughter. Alarmed, he ran to some of his neighbours under the same roof.
Seite 9 - Edinburgh, in the year 1721, He had a daughter, Catherine Shaw, who lived with him. She encouraged the addresses of John Lawson, a jeweller, to whom William Shaw declared the most insuperable objections, alleging him to be a profligate young man, addicted to every kind of dissipation. He was forbidden the house ; but the daughter continuing to see him clandestinely, the father, on the discovery, kept her strictly confined. William Shaw had, for some time, pressed his daughter to receive the addresses...
Seite 22 - But, until it is proved that pain has a greater tendency to make a person speak truth than falsehood, this reasoning seems to have little weight. This unhappy girl was, therefore, horridly and repeatedly tortured ; but still persevering in asserting her innocence, she at last escaped with life — if it could be called an escape, when it was supposed she would never again enjoy either health or the use of her limbs, from the effects of the torture.
Seite 3 - ... to me. I doubt not I shall find mercy in another world ; for sure no benevolent being can require that I should any longer live in torment to myself in this ! My death I lay to your charge : when you read this, consider yourself as the inhuman wretch that plunged the murderous knife into the bosom of the unhappy — CATHERINE SHAW.
Seite 14 - ... him unmarked. He also gave evidence as to the finding of the purse, and the nineteen marked guineas, in the prisoner's pocket. And, what consummated the proof, the man to whom Mr. Brunell paid the guinea, produced the same, and gave testimony to the having taken it, that night, in payment, of the prisoner's master. Mr. Brunell gave evidence of his having received that guinea, which he afterward paid to this last witness.

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