Selling SparrowsJudy Wright, 2006 - 454 páginas One bitter winter night during 1849, landowners of Stanbridge in Bedfordshire, seeking to protect their property from a gang of petty thieves, detailed two police constables to watch the activities of a local man thought to be their ringleader. The bloody events of that night were to have disastrous consequences for many families. This true story depicts the lives of the three men who were subsequently arrested for a crime which at the time could carry a sentence of transportation to Australia. |
Contenido
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 5 |
INTRODUCTION The Accused | 7 |
Village Life Thorn and Puddlehill | 11 |
Facts of Life for Labourers | 27 |
Facts of Life for Strawplaiters and Children | 45 |
The Whites Family Life 1800 to 1849 | 55 |
The Dockerills A Paupers Life in Stanbridge | 83 |
The Rise in Crime | 113 |
Caught in the Act | 129 |
The Bedfordshire Lent Assizes 1849 | 143 |
The Trial | 159 |
William and Squire Brandreth | 177 |
Life in Bedford Prison | 191 |
Millbank Cholera and Shorncliffe | 215 |
Portland Gaol | 229 |
Términos y frases comunes
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