The trial of the notorious highwayman Richard Turpin: at York Assizes on the 22d day [of] March 1739, before the Hon. Sir Willia[m] Chapple, Kt., judge of assize and one [of] His Majesty's justices of the Court of King['s] Bench: taken down in court by Mr. Thomas Kyll, professor of short hand; to which is prefix'd an exact account of the said Turpin, from h[is] first coming into Yorkshire to the time of hi[s] being committed prisoner to York Castle; communicated by Mr. Appleton, of Beverle clerk of the peace for the east-riding of t[he] said County; with a copy of a letter which Turpin received from his father, while under sentence of deat[h]; to which is added his behaviour at the place of execution, on Saturday, the 7th of April 1739; together with the whole confession [he] made to the hangman at the gallows, wherein he acknowledg'd himself guilty of the facts for which he suffer['d], own'd the murder of Mr. Thompson's servant on Eppi[ng] Forest and gave a particular account of several robberies which he had committed
1739; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
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Errata: at p. v. Book.
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