Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold by Horace Bleackley

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Preface:
No apology is needed, save that which the consciousness of inadequate work may call forth, from him who writes a history of great criminals. Since the lives of so many whose crime is their only title to fame have been included in the Dictionary of National Biography, it is inevitable that some of these old stories shall be re-told.

Contents:
The Love Philtre. The Case of Mary Blandy, 1751-1752
The Unfortunate Brothers. The Case of Robert and Daniel Perreau and Margaret Caroline Rudd, 1775-1776
The King’s Engraver. The Case of William Wynne Ryland, 1783
A Sop to Cerberus. The Case of Governor Wall, 1782-1802
The Keswick Impostor. The Case of John Hadfield, 1802-1803
A Famous Forgery. The Case of Henry Fauntleroy, 1824—

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