| Browsing results matching Hone's interesting history of the memorable blood conspiracy, carried on by S. Mac Daniel, J. Berry, J. Egan, and J. Salmon, thief-takers : and their trials and sentences, in 1756, for procuring two boys to commit a robbery, in order to get the reward for their conviction, and obtaining an innocent lad to be executed, having sworn away the lives of seventy poor creatures, and received £1,720 from the Treasury for their blood-money : also the reasons for which they were suffered to escape the gallows, and illustrative legal and critical notes and observations applicable to present circumstances : with a portrait of Mac Daniel, after he was pilloried. |
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