| audio,transcription,file_name | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0093.wav,This phial he had managed to retain in his possession in spite of the frequent searches to which he was subjected in Newgate.,LJ011-0093.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0094.wav,"The second conviction for forgery in 1828 was that of the Quaker Joseph Hunton, a man of previously the highest repute in the city of London.",LJ011-0094.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0095.wav,"He had prospered in early life, was a slop-seller on a large scale at Bury St. Edmunds, and a sugar-baker in the metropolis.",LJ011-0095.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0096.wav,"He married a lady also belonging to the Society of Friends, who brought him a large fortune, which, and his own money, he put into a city firm,",LJ011-0096.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0097.wav,that of Dickson and Co.,LJ011-0097.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0098.wav,"He soon, however, became deeply involved in Stock Exchange speculations,",LJ011-0098.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0099.wav,"and losing heavily, to meet the claims upon him he put out a number of forged bills of exchange or acceptances,",LJ011-0099.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0100.wav,to which the signature of one Wilkins of Abingdon was found to be forged.,LJ011-0100.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0101.wav,"Hunton tried to fly the country on the detection of the fraud, but was arrested at Plymouth just as he was on the point of leaving England in the New York packet.",LJ011-0101.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0102.wav,"He had gone on board in his Quaker dress, but when captured was found in a light-green frock,",LJ011-0102.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0103.wav,"a pair of light gray pantaloons, a black stock and a foraging cap.",LJ011-0103.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0104.wav,"Hunton was put upon his trial at the Old Bailey, and in due course sentenced to death.",LJ011-0104.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0105.wav,"His defense was that the forged acceptances would have been met on coming to maturity, and that he had no real desire to defraud.",LJ011-0105.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0106.wav,"Hunton accepted his sentence with great resignation, although he protested against the inhumanity of the laws which condemned him to death.",LJ011-0106.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0107.wav,"On entering Newgate he said,",LJ011-0107.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0108.wav,"I wish after this day to have communication with nobody; let me take leave of my wife, and family, and friends. I have already suffered an execution;",LJ011-0108.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0109.wav,my heart has undergone that horrible penalty.,LJ011-0109.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0110.wav,"He was, however, visited by and received his wife, and several members of the Society of Friends.",LJ011-0110.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0111.wav,"Two elders of the meeting sat up with him in the press yard the whole of the night previous to execution, and a third,",LJ011-0111.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0112.wav,"Mr. Sparks Moline, came to attend him to the scaffold.",LJ011-0112.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0113.wav,"He met his death with unshaken firmness, only entreating that a certain blue handkerchief,",LJ011-0113.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0114.wav,"to which he seemed fondly attached, should be used to bandage his eyes, which request was readily granted.",LJ011-0114.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0115.wav,Hunton's execution no doubt aroused public attention to the cruelty and futility of the capital law against forgery.,LJ011-0115.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0116.wav,A society which had already been started against capital punishment,LJ011-0116.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0117.wav,"devoted its efforts first to a mitigation of the forgery statute, but could not immediately accomplish much.",LJ011-0117.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0118.wav,In 1829 the gallows claimed two more victims for this offense.,LJ011-0118.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0119.wav,"One was Richard Gifford, a well-educated youth who had been at Christ's Hospital, and afterwards in the National Debt Office.",LJ011-0119.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0120.wav,"Unfortunately he took to drink, lost his appointment, and fell from bad to worse.",LJ011-0120.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0121.wav,"Suddenly, after being at the lowest depths, he emerged, and was found by his friends living in comfort in the Waterloo Road.",LJ011-0121.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0122.wav,"His funds, which he pretended came to him with a rich wife, were really the proceeds of frauds upon the Bank of England.",LJ011-0122.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0123.wav,"He forged the names of people who held stock on the Bank books, and got the value of the stock;",LJ011-0123.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0124.wav,he also forged dividend receipts and got the dividends. He was only six-and-twenty when he was hanged.,LJ011-0124.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0125.wav,"The other and the last criminal executed for forgery in this country was one Maynard, who was convicted of a fraud upon the Custom House.",LJ011-0125.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0126.wav,"In conjunction with two others, one of whom was a clerk in the Custom House,",LJ011-0126.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0127.wav,"and had access to the official records, he forged a warrant for one thousand nine-hundred seventy-three pounds and was paid the money by the comptroller general.",LJ011-0127.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0128.wav,"Maynard was convicted of uttering the forged document, Jones of being an accessory; the third prisoner was acquitted.",LJ011-0128.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0129.wav,Maynard was the only one who suffered death.,LJ011-0129.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0130.wav,This was on the last day of 1829. In the following session Sir Robert Peel brought in a bill to consolidate the acts relating to forgery.,LJ011-0130.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0131.wav,"Upon the third reading of this bill Sir James Macintosh moved as an amendment that capital punishment should be abolished for all crimes of forgery,",LJ011-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0132.wav,except the forgery of wills and powers of attorney.,LJ011-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0133.wav,"This amendment was strongly supported outside the House, and a petition in favor of its passing was presented,",LJ011-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0134.wav,signed by more than a thousand members of banking firms.,LJ011-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0135.wav,"Macintosh's amendment was carried in the Commons, but the new law did not pass the Lords, who re-enacted the capital penalty.",LJ011-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0136.wav,"Still no sentence of death was carried out for the offense, and in 1832",LJ011-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0137.wav,the Attorney-General introduced a bill to abolish capital punishment entirely for forgery.,LJ011-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0138.wav,"It passed the Commons, but opposition was again encountered in the Lords.",LJ011-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0139.wav,"This time they sent back the bill, re-enacting only the two penalties for will forging and the forging of powers of attorney;",LJ011-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0140.wav,"in other words, they had advanced in 1832 to the point at which the Lower House had arrived in 1830.",LJ011-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0141.wav,There were at the moment in Newgate six convicts sentenced to death for forging wills.,LJ011-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0142.wav,"The question was whether the Government would dare to take their lives at the bidding of the House of Lords,",LJ011-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0143.wav,and in defiance of the vote of the assembly which more accurately represented public opinion. It was indeed announced that their fate was sealed;,LJ011-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0144.wav,"but Mr. Joseph Hume pressed the Government hard, and obtained an assurance that the men should not be executed.",LJ011-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0145.wav,"The new Forgery Act with the Lords' amendment passed into law, but the latter proved perfectly harmless,",LJ011-0145.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0146.wav,and no person ever after suffered death for any variety of this crime.,LJ011-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0147.wav,I will include in this part of the present chapter almost one of the last instances of a crime which in time past,LJ011-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0148.wav,"had invariably been visited with the death penalty, and which was of a distinctly fraudulent nature.",LJ011-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0149.wav,The abduction of Miss Turner by the brothers Wakefield bore a strong resemblance to the carrying off and forcible marrying of heiresses as already described.,LJ011-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0150.wav,"Miss Turner was a school-girl of barely fifteen,",LJ011-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0151.wav,"only child of a gentleman of large property in Cheshire, of which county he was actually high sheriff at the time of his daughter's abduction.",LJ011-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0152.wav,"The elder brother,",LJ011-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0153.wav,"Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the prime mover in the abduction, was a barrister, not exactly briefless, but without a large practice.",LJ011-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0154.wav,"He had, it was said, a good private income, and was already a widower with two children at the time of his committing the offense for which he was subsequently tried.",LJ011-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0155.wav,He had eloped with his first wife from school.,LJ011-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0156.wav,"While on a visit to Macclesfield he heard by chance of Miss Turner, and that she would inherit all her father's possessions.",LJ011-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0157.wav,He thereupon conceived an idea of carrying her off and marrying her willy nilly at Gretna Green.,LJ011-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0158.wav,"The two brothers started at once for Liverpool, where Miss Turner was at school with a Mrs. Daulby.",LJ011-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0159.wav,"At Manchester, en route, a traveling carriage was purchased, which was driven up to Mrs. Daulby's door at eight in the morning,",LJ011-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0160.wav,"and a servant hurriedly alighted from it, bearing a letter for Miss Turner.",LJ011-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0161.wav,"This purported to be from the medical attendant of Mr. Turner, written at Shrigley, Mr. Turner's place of residence;",LJ011-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0162.wav,and it stated that Mrs. Turner had been stricken with paralysis.,LJ011-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0163.wav,"She was not in immediate danger, but she wished to see her daughter, ""as it was possible she might soon become incapable of recognizing any one.""",LJ011-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0164.wav,"Miss Turner, greatly agitated, accompanied the messenger who had brought this news, a disguised servant of Wakefield's,",LJ011-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0165.wav,who had plausibly explained that he had only recently been engaged at Shrigley.,LJ011-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0166.wav,"The road taken was via Manchester, where the servant said a Dr. Hull was to be picked up to go on with them to Shrigley.",LJ011-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0167.wav,"At Manchester, however, the carriage stopped at the Albion Hotel.",LJ011-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0168.wav,"Miss Turner was shown into a private room, where Mr. Wakefield soon presented himself.",LJ011-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0169.wav,"Miss Turner, not knowing him, would have left the room, but he said he came from her father, and she remained.",LJ011-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0170.wav,"Wakefield, in reply to her inquiries, satisfied her that her mother was well, and that the real reason for summoning her from school",LJ011-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0171.wav,was the state of her father's affairs.,LJ011-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0172.wav,"Mr. Turner was on the verge of bankruptcy. He was at that moment at Kendal, and wished her to join him there at once.",LJ011-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0173.wav,"Miss Turner consented to go on, and they traveled night and day towards the north.",LJ011-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0174.wav,"But at Kendal there was no Mr. Turner, and, to allay Miss Turner's growing anxiety,",LJ011-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0175.wav,Wakefield found it necessary to become more explicit regarding her father's affairs.,LJ011-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0176.wav,"He now pretended that Mr. Turner was also on his way to the border, pursued by sheriffs' officers.",LJ011-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0177.wav,"The fact was, Wakefield went on to say, an uncle of his had advanced Mr. Turner £60,000, which had temporarily staved off ruin.",LJ011-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0178.wav,"But another bank had since failed, and nothing could save Mr. Turner but the transfer of some property to Miss Turner, and its settlement on her,",LJ011-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0179.wav,"so that it might become the exclusive property of her husband, ""whoever he might be.""",LJ011-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0180.wav,"Wakefield added that it had been suggested he should marry Miss Turner, but that he had laughed at the idea.",LJ011-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0181.wav,"Wakefield's uncle took the matter more seriously, and declared that unless the marriage came off Mr. Turner must be sold up.",LJ011-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0182.wav,"Miss Turner, thus pressed, consented to go on to Gretna Green.",LJ011-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0183.wav,"Passing through Carlisle, she was told that Mr. Turner was in the town, but could not show himself.",LJ011-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0184.wav,Nothing could release him from his trouble but the arrival of the marriage certificate from Gretna Green.,LJ011-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0185.wav,"Filial affection rose superior to all scruples, and Miss Turner, having crossed the border, was married to Wakefield",LJ011-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0186.wav,by the blacksmith in the usual way.,LJ011-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0187.wav,"Returning to Carlisle, she now heard that her father had been set free, and had gone home to Shrigley, whither they were to follow him.",LJ011-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0188.wav,"They set out, but at Leeds Wakefield found himself called suddenly to Paris;",LJ011-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0189.wav,"the other brother was accordingly sent on a pretended mission to Shrigley to bring Mr. Turner on to London, whither Wakefield and Miss Turner also proceeded.",LJ011-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0190.wav,"On arrival, Wakefield pretended that they had missed Mr. Turner, and must follow him over to France.",LJ011-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0191.wav,"The strangely-married couple thereupon pressed on to Dover, and crossed over to Calais.",LJ011-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0192.wav,The fact of the abduction did not transpire for some days.,LJ011-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0193.wav,"Then Mrs. Daulby learnt that Miss Turner had not arrived at Shrigley, but that she had gone to Manchester.",LJ011-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0194.wav,Friends went in pursuit and traced her to Huddersfield and further north.,LJ011-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0195.wav,"The terror and dismay of her parents were soon intensified by the receipt of a letter from Wakefield, at Carlisle, announcing the marriage.",LJ011-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0196.wav,"Mr. Turner at once set off for London, where he sought the assistance of the police,",LJ011-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0197.wav,and presently ascertained that Wakefield had gone to the Continent with his involuntary bride.,LJ011-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0198.wav,"An uncle of Miss Wakefield's, accompanied by his solicitor and a Bow Street runner, at once went in pursuit.",LJ011-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0199.wav,"Meanwhile, a second letter turned up from Wakefield at Calais, in which he assured Mrs. Turner that Miss Turner was fondly attached to him,",LJ011-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0200.wav,"and went on to say, ""I do assure you, madam, that it shall be the anxious endeavor of my life to promote her happiness by every means in my power.""",LJ011-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0201.wav,"The game, however, was nearly up. Miss Turner was met by her uncle on Calais pier as she was walking with Wakefield.",LJ011-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0202.wav,The uncle claimed her. The husband resisted.,LJ011-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0203.wav,"Monsieur le Maire was appealed to, and decided to leave it to the young lady, who at once abandoned Wakefield.",LJ011-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0204.wav,"As he still urged his rights over his wife, Miss Turner cried out in protest, ""No, no, I am not his wife;",LJ011-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0205.wav,"he carried me away by fraud and stratagem, and forced me to accompany him to Gretna Green",LJ011-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0206.wav,"By the same forcible means I was compelled to quit England, and to trust myself to the protection of this person,",LJ011-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0207.wav,"whom I never saw until I was taken from Liverpool, and never want to see again.",LJ011-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0208.wav,On this Wakefield gave in.,LJ011-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0209.wav,"He surrendered the bride who had never been a wife, and she returned to England with her friends, while Wakefield went on alone to Paris.",LJ011-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0210.wav,"Mr. William Wakefield was arrested at Dover, conveyed to Chester, and committed to Lancaster Jail for trial at the next assizes,",LJ011-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0211.wav,"when indictments were preferred against both brothers ""for having carried away Ellen Turner, spinster,",LJ011-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0212.wav,"then a maid and heir apparent unto her father, for the sake of the lucre of her substance; and for having afterwards unlawfully and against her will",LJ011-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0213.wav,married the said Ellen Turner.,LJ011-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0214.wav,"They were tried in March of the following year, Edward Wakefield having apparently given himself up,",LJ011-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0215.wav,"and found guilty, remaining in Lancaster Jail for a couple of months, when they were brought up to the court of King's Bench for judgment.",LJ011-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0216.wav,The prosecution pressed for a severe penalty. Edward Wakefield pleaded that his trial had already cost him £3000.,LJ011-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0217.wav,"Mr. Justice Bayley, in summing up,",LJ011-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0218.wav,"spoke severely of the gross deception practiced upon an innocent girl, and sentenced the brothers each to three years' imprisonment,",LJ011-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0219.wav,"William Wakefield in Lancaster Jail, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield in Newgate, which sentences were duly enforced.",LJ011-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0220.wav,"The marriage was annulled by an Act of Parliament, although Wakefield petitioned against it,",LJ011-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0221.wav,"and was brought from Newgate, at his own request, to oppose the second reading of the bill.",LJ011-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0222.wav,"He also wrote and published a pamphlet from the jail to show that Miss Turner had been a consenting party to the marriage, and was really his wife.",LJ011-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0223.wav,"Neither his address nor his pamphlet availed much, for the bill for the divorce passed both Houses.",LJ011-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0224.wav,"That Mr. Wakefield was a shrewd critic and close observer of all that went on in the Newgate of those days,",LJ011-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0225.wav,"will be admitted by those who have read his book on ""the punishment of death,",LJ011-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0226.wav,"which was based on his jail experiences, and of which I have availed myself in the last chapter.",LJ011-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0227.wav,"After their release from Lancaster and Newgate respectively, both Wakefields went abroad.",LJ011-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0228.wav,"Mr. W. Wakefield served in a continental army, and rose to the rank of colonel,",LJ011-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0229.wav,"after which he went to New Zealand, and held an important post in that colony.",LJ011-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0230.wav,"Mr. E. G. Wakefield took part in the scheme for the colonization of North Australia, and for some years resided in that colony.",LJ011-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0231.wav,"Miss Turner subsequently married Mr. Legh of Lym Hall, Cheshire.",LJ011-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0232.wav,"It must not be imagined that although highway robbery was now nearly extinct, and felonious outrages in the streets were rare,",LJ011-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0233.wav,that thieves or depredators were idle or entirely unsuccessful.,LJ011-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0234.wav,"Bigger ""jobs"" than ever were planned and attempted,",LJ011-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0235.wav,"as in the burglary at Lambeth Palace, when the thieves were fortunately disappointed, the archbishop having, before he left town,",LJ011-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0236.wav,"sent his plate-chests, eight in number, to the silversmith's for greater security.",LJ011-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0237.wav,The jewelers were always a favorite prey of the London thieves.,LJ011-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0238.wav,"Shops were broken into, as when that of Grimaldi and Johnson, in the Strand, was robbed of watches to the value of £6000.",LJ011-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0239.wav,"Where robbery with violence was intended, the perpetrators had now to adopt various shifts and contrivances to secure their victim.",LJ011-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0240.wav,"No more curious instance of this ever occurred than the assault made by one Howard upon a Mr. Mullay, with intent to rob him.",LJ011-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0241.wav,"The latter had advertised, offering a sum of £1000 to anyone who would introduce him to some mercantile equipment.",LJ011-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0242.wav,"Howard replied, desiring Mr. Mullay to call upon him in a house in Red Lion Square.",LJ011-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0243.wav,"Mr. Mullay went, and a second interview was agreed upon, when a third person, Mr. Owen,",LJ011-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0244.wav,"through whose interest an appointment under Government was to be obtained for Mullay, would be present.",LJ011-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0245.wav,"Mr. Mullay called again, taking with him £500 in cash. Howard discovered this, and his manner was very suspicious;",LJ011-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0246.wav,"there were weapons in the room -- a long knife, a heavy trap-ball bat, and a poker.",LJ011-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0247.wav,"Mr. Mullay became alarmed, and as Mr. Owen did not appear, withdrew;",LJ011-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0248.wav,"Howard, strange to say, making no attempt to detain him; probably because Mullay promised to return a few days later, and to bring more money.",LJ011-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0249.wav,"On this renewed visit Mr. Owen was still absent, and Mr. Mullay agreed to write him a note from a copy Howard gave him.",LJ011-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0250.wav,"While thus engaged, Howard thrust the poker into the fire.",LJ011-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0251.wav,"Mullay protested, and then Howard, under the influence of ungovernable rage, as it seemed, jumped up,",LJ011-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0252.wav,"locked the door, and attacked Mullay violently with the trap-ball bat and knife.",LJ011-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0253.wav,"Mullay defended himself, and managed to break the knife, but not before he had cut himself severely.",LJ011-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0254.wav,"A life and death struggle ensued. Mullay cried ""Murder!""",LJ011-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0255.wav,"Howard swore he would finish him, but proved the weaker of the two, and Mullay got him down on the floor.",LJ011-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0256.wav,"By this time the neighbors were aroused, and several people came to the scene of the affray.",LJ011-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0257.wav,"Howard was secured, given into custody, and committed to Newgate.",LJ011-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0258.wav,"The defense he set up was, that Mullay had used epithets towards him while they were negotiating a business matter,",LJ011-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0259.wav,"and that, being an irritable temper, he had struck Mullay, after which a violent scuffle took place.",LJ011-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0260.wav,"It was, however, proved that Howard was in needy circumstances, and that his proposals to Mr. Mullay could only have originated in a desire to rob him.",LJ011-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0261.wav,"He was found guilty of an assault with intent, and sentenced to transportation for fourteen years.",LJ011-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0262.wav,"A more complicated and altogether most extraordinary case of assault, with intent to extort money, occurred a few years later.",LJ011-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0263.wav,"It was perpetrated upon a respectable country solicitor,",LJ011-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0264.wav,"Mr. Gee, of Bishop Stortford, who administered the estate of a certain Mr. Canning, deceased.",LJ011-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0265.wav,This Mr. Canning had left his widow a life interest in £2000 so long as she remained unmarried.,LJ011-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0266.wav,The money went after her to her children.,LJ011-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0267.wav,"Mr. Gee had invested £1200 of this, and was seeking how best to place the remaining £800,",LJ011-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0268.wav,when he was asked to meet a Mr. Heath in London with regard to the sale of certain lands at Bishop Stortford.,LJ011-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0269.wav,"An appointment was made and kept by Mr. Gee,",LJ011-0269.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0270.wav,"but on arrival he was met by a young sailor with a letter which begged Mr. Gee to go to Heath's house, as the latter was not well.",LJ011-0270.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0271.wav,"Mr. Gee went in the coach sent for him, and alighted at 27, York Street, West, Commercial Road.",LJ011-0271.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0272.wav,"The coach immediately drove off; Mr. Gee entered the house, asked for Mr. Heath, was told he would find him in the back kitchen at breakfast.",LJ011-0272.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0273.wav,"He was about to descend the stairs when three persons, one of them the young sailor,",LJ011-0273.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0274.wav,"fell upon him, and in spite of his resistance carried him into a sort of den partitioned off at the end of the back kitchen.",LJ011-0274.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0275.wav,There he was seated on some sort of wooden bench and securely fastened.,LJ011-0275.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0276.wav,"A chain fixed to staples at his back passed round his chest under his arms, and was padlocked on the left side;",LJ011-0276.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0277.wav,"his feet were bound with cords and made fast to rings in the floor. Thus manacled, one of the party, who pretended to be Mrs. Canning's brother,",LJ011-0277.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0278.wav,"addressed him, insisting that he should forthwith sign a cheque for the £800 of the Canning inheritance still uninvested,",LJ011-0278.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0279.wav,and write an order sufficient to secure the surrender of the other £1200.,LJ011-0279.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0280.wav,Mr. Gee at first stoutly refused.,LJ011-0280.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0281.wav,"Then, as they warned him that he would be kept a prisoner in total darkness in this horrible den until he agreed to their demands,",LJ011-0281.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0282.wav,"he gave in, and signed the documents thus illegally extorted.",LJ011-0282.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0283.wav,"One was a cheque for £800 on his bankers, the other an order to Mr. Bell of Newport, Essex, requesting the surrender of a deed.",LJ011-0283.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0284.wav,"His captors having thus succeeded in their designs, left him, no doubt to realize the money.",LJ011-0284.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0285.wav,"The door of his place of durance stood open, and Mr. Gee began to consider whether he might not escape.",LJ011-0285.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0286.wav,"For three hours he struggled without success with his bonds,",LJ011-0286.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0287.wav,"but at length managed to wriggle out of the chain which confined his body, and soon loosened the ropes round his feet.",LJ011-0287.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0288.wav,"Thus free, he eluded the vigilance of two of the party, who were at dinner in the front kitchen,",LJ011-0288.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0289.wav,"and creeping out into the garden at the back, climbed the wall, and got into the street.",LJ011-0289.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0290.wav,"His first act was to send a messenger to stop the cheque and the order to Mr. Bell, his next to seek the help of the police.",LJ011-0290.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0291.wav,"Two Bow Street runners were dispatched to the house in York Street, which had evidently been taken on purpose for the outrage.",LJ011-0291.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0292.wav,"There was no furniture in the place, and the den in the kitchen had been recently and specially constructed of boards of immense strength and thickness.",LJ011-0292.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0293.wav,"It was a cell five feet by three, within another, the intervening being filled with rammed earth to deaden the sound.",LJ011-0293.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 15: Newgate notorieties, part 3",LJ012-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0002.wav,On the arrival of the police the house was empty.,LJ012-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0003.wav,"The two men on guard had gone off immediately after Mr. Gee had escaped, but they returned later in the day, and were apprehended.",LJ012-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0004.wav,Inquiries set on foot also elicited the suspicion that the person who had represented Mrs. Canning's brother,LJ012-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0005.wav,"was a blind man named Edwards, who had taken this house in York Street, and who was known to be a frequent visitor at Mrs. Canning's.",LJ012-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0006.wav,"A watch was set on him at her house, where he was soon afterwards arrested.",LJ012-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0007.wav,"Edwards, whom Mr. Gee easily identified with the others, at once admitted that he was the prime mover of the conspiracy.",LJ012-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0008.wav,"He had sought by all legal means to obtain possession of the £2000, but had failed, and had had recourse to more violent means.",LJ012-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0009.wav,"It turned out that he was really married to Mrs. Canning,",LJ012-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0010.wav,"both having been recognized by the clergyman who had performed the ceremony, and the assault had been committed to secure the money",LJ012-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0011.wav,which Mrs. Canning had lost by remarriage.,LJ012-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0012.wav,"All three men were committed for trial, although Edwards wished to exculpate the others as having only acted under his order.",LJ012-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0013.wav,"At the trial the indictment charging them with felony could not be sustained, but they were found guilty of conspiracy and assault.",LJ012-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0014.wav,"Edwards was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Newgate,",LJ012-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0015.wav,Weedon and Lecasser to twelve and six months respectively in Coldbath Fields.,LJ012-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0016.wav,At no period could thieves in London or elsewhere have prospered had they been unable to dispose of their ill-gotten goods.,LJ012-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0017.wav,"The trade of fence, or receiver, therefore, is very nearly as old as the crimes which it so obviously fostered.",LJ012-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0018.wav,"One of the most notorious, and for a time most successful practitioners in this illicit trade, passed through Newgate in 1831.",LJ012-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0019.wav,The name of Ikey Solomons was long remembered by thief and thief-taker.,LJ012-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0020.wav,"He began as an itinerant street vendor at eight, at ten he passed bad money,",LJ012-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0021.wav,"at fourteen he was a pickpocket and a ""duffer,"" or a seller of sham goods.",LJ012-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0022.wav,"He early saw the profits to be made out of purchasing stolen goods, but could not embark in it at first for want of capital.",LJ012-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0023.wav,"He was taken up when still in his teens for stealing a pocketbook, and was sentenced to transportation, but did not get beyond the hulks at Chatham.",LJ012-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0024.wav,"On his release an uncle, a slop-seller in Chatham, gave him a situation as ""barker,"" or salesman,",LJ012-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0025.wav,at which he realized £150 within a couple of years.,LJ012-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0026.wav,With this capital he returned to London and set up as a fence.,LJ012-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0027.wav,"He had such great aptitude for business, and such a thorough knowledge of the real value of goods,",LJ012-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0028.wav,"that he was soon admitted to be one of the best judges known of all kinds of property, from a glass bottle to a five hundred guinea chronometer.",LJ012-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0029.wav,"But he never paid more than a fixed price for all articles of the same class, whatever their intrinsic value.",LJ012-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0030.wav,"Thus, a watch was paid for as a watch, whether it was of gold or silver; a piece of linen as such, whether the stuff was coarse or fine.",LJ012-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0031.wav,"This rule in dealing with stolen goods continues to this day, and has made the fortune of many since Ikey.",LJ012-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0032.wav,"Solomons also established a system of provincial agency, by which stolen goods were passed on from London to the seaports, and so abroad.",LJ012-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0033.wav,"Jewels were re-set,",LJ012-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0034.wav,"diamonds refaced; all marks by which other articles might be identified, the selvages of linen, the stamps on shoes,",LJ012-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0035.wav,"the number and names on watches, were carefully removed or obliterated after the goods passed out of his hands.",LJ012-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0036.wav,On one occasion the whole of the proceeds of a robbery from a boot shop was traced to Solomons';,LJ012-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0037.wav,"the owner came with the police, and was morally convinced that it was his property,",LJ012-0037.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0038.wav,"but could not positively identify it, and Ikey defied them to remove a single shoe.",LJ012-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0039.wav,In the end the injured bootmaker agreed to buy back his stolen stock,LJ012-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0040.wav,"at the price Solomons had paid for it, and it cost him about a hundred pounds to re-stock his shop with his own goods.",LJ012-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0041.wav,"As a general rule Ikey Solomons confined his purchases to small articles, mostly of jewelery and plate,",LJ012-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0042.wav,which he kept concealed in a hiding-place with a trap-door just under his bed.,LJ012-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0043.wav,"He lived in Rosemary Lane, and sometimes he had as much as £20,000 worth of goods secreted on the premises.",LJ012-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0044.wav,"When his trade was busiest he set up a second establishment, at the head of which, although he was married,",LJ012-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0045.wav,"he put another lady, with whom he was on intimate terms.",LJ012-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0046.wav,"The second house was in Lower Queen Street, Islington, and he used it for some time as a depot for valuables.",LJ012-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0047.wav,"But it was eventually discovered by Mrs. Solomons, a very jealous wife,",LJ012-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0048.wav,"and this, with the danger arising from an extensive robbery of watches in Cheapside, in which Ikey was implicated as a receiver,",LJ012-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0049.wav,led him to think seriously of trying his fortunes in another land.,LJ012-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0050.wav,"He was about to emigrate to New South Wales, when he was arrested at Islington and committed to Newgate on a charge of receiving stolen goods.",LJ012-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0051.wav,"While thus incarcerated he managed to escape from custody, but not actually from jail, by an ingenious contrivance which is worth mentioning.",LJ012-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0052.wav,"He claimed to be admitted to bail, and was taken from Newgate on a writ of habeas before one of the judges sitting at Westminster.",LJ012-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0053.wav,"He was conveyed in a coach driven by a confederate, and under the escort of a couple of turnkeys.",LJ012-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0054.wav,"Solomons, while waiting to appear in court, persuaded the turnkeys to take him to a public-house, where all might ""refresh.""",LJ012-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0055.wav,While there he was joined by his wife and other friends.,LJ012-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0056.wav,"After a short carouse the prisoner went into Westminster, his case was heard, bail refused, and he was ordered back to Newgate.",LJ012-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0057.wav,"But he once more persuaded the turnkeys to pause at the public, where more liquor was consumed.",LJ012-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0058.wav,"When the journey was resumed, Mrs. Solomons accompanied her husband in the coach. Half-way to Newgate she was taken with a fit.",LJ012-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0059.wav,"One turnkey was stupidly drunk, and Ikey persuaded the other, who was not much better,",LJ012-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0060.wav,"to let the coach change and pass Petticoat Lane en route to the jail, where the suffering woman might be handed over to her friends.",LJ012-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0061.wav,"On stopping at a door in this low street, Ikey jumped out, ran into the house, slamming the door behind him.",LJ012-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0062.wav,"He passed through and out at the back, and was soon beyond pursuit.",LJ012-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0063.wav,"By-and-by the turnkeys, sobered by their loss, returned to Newgate alone, and pleaded in excuse that they had been drugged.",LJ012-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0064.wav,"Ikey left no traces, and the police could hear nothing of him. He had in fact gone out of the country, to Copenhagen, whence he passed on to New York.",LJ012-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0065.wav,"There he devoted himself to the circulation of forged notes. He was also anxious to do business in watches,",LJ012-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0066.wav,"and begged his wife to send him over a consignment of cheap ""righteous"" watches, or such as had been honestly obtained, and not ""on the cross.""",LJ012-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0067.wav,"But Mrs. Solomons could not resist the temptation to dabble in stolen goods, and she was found shipping watches of the wrong category to New York.",LJ012-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0068.wav,"For this she received a sentence of fourteen years' transportation, and was sent to Van Diemen's Land.",LJ012-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0069.wav,"Ikey joined her at Hobart Town, where they set up a general shop, and soon began to prosper.",LJ012-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0070.wav,"He was, however, recognized, and ere long an order came out from home for his arrest and transfer to England,",LJ012-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0071.wav,"which presently followed, and again found himself an inmate of Newgate, waiting trial as a receiver and a prison-breaker.",LJ012-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0072.wav,"He was indicted on eight charges, two only of which were substantiated, but on each of them he received a sentence of seven years' transportation.",LJ012-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0073.wav,"At his own request he was reconveyed to Hobart Town, where his son had been carrying on the business.",LJ012-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0074.wav,"Whether Ikey was ""assigned"" to his own family is not recorded, but no doubt he succeeded to his own property when the term of servitude had expired.",LJ012-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0075.wav,"No doubt, on the removal of Ikey Solomons from the scene, his mantle fell upon worthy successors.",LJ012-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0076.wav,"There was an increase rather than an abatement in jewel and bullion robberies in the years immediately following,",LJ012-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0077.wav,and the thieves seem to have had no difficulty in disposing of their spoil.,LJ012-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0078.wav,One of the largest robberies of its class was that effected upon the Custom House in the winter of 1834.,LJ012-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0079.wav,A large amount of specie was nearly always retained here in the department of the Receiver of Fines.,LJ012-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0080.wav,"This was known to some clerks in the office, who began to consider how they might lay hands on a lot of cash.",LJ012-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0081.wav,"Being inexperienced, they decided to call in the services of a couple of professional housebreakers,",LJ012-0081.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0082.wav,"Jordan and Sullivan, who at once set to work in a business-like way to obtain impressions of the keys of the strong room and chest.",LJ012-0082.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0083.wav,"But before committing themselves to an attempt on the latter, it was of importance to ascertain how much it usually contained.",LJ012-0083.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0084.wav,"For this purpose Jordan waited on the receiver to make a small payment, for which he tendered a fifty-pound note.",LJ012-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0085.wav,"The chest was opened to give change, and a heavy tray lifted out which plainly held some £4000 in cash.",LJ012-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0086.wav,"Some difficulty then arose as to gaining admission to the strong room, and it was arranged that a man, May, another Custom House clerk,",LJ012-0086.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0087.wav,"should be introduced into the building, and secreted there during the night to accomplish the robbery.",LJ012-0087.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0088.wav,May was smuggled in through a window on the esplanade behind an opened umbrella. When the place was quite deserted,LJ012-0088.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0089.wav,"he broke open the chest and stole £4700 in notes, with a quantity of gold and some silver.",LJ012-0089.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0090.wav,"He went out next morning with the booty when the doors were re-opened, and attracted no attention.",LJ012-0090.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0091.wav,"The spoil was fairly divided; part of the notes were disposed of to a traveling ""receiver,"" who passed over to the Continent and there cashed them easily.",LJ012-0091.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0092.wav,"This occurred in November 1834. The Custom House officials were in a state of consternation,",LJ012-0092.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0093.wav,and the police were unable at first to get on the track of the thieves.,LJ012-0093.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0094.wav,"While the excitement was still fresh, a new robbery of diamonds was committed at a bonded warehouse in the immediate neighborhood, on Custom House Quay.",LJ012-0094.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0095.wav,"The jewels had belonged to a Spanish countess recently deceased, who had sent them to England for greater security on the outbreak of the first Carlist war.",LJ012-0095.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0096.wav,"At her death the diamonds were divided between her four daughters, but only half had been claimed,",LJ012-0096.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0097.wav,and at the time of the robbery there were still £6000 worth in the warehouse.,LJ012-0097.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0098.wav,These were deposited in an iron chest of great strength on the second floor.,LJ012-0098.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0099.wav,"The thieves it was supposed had secreted themselves in the warehouse during business hours, and waited till night to carry out their plans.",LJ012-0099.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0100.wav,"Some ham sandwiches, several cigar ends, and two empty champagne bottles were found on the premises next day, showing how they had passed their time.",LJ012-0100.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0101.wav,"They had had serious work to get at the diamonds. It was necessary to force one heavy door from its hinges, and to cut through the thick panels of another.",LJ012-0101.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0102.wav,"The lock and fastenings of the chest were forced by means of a ""jack,"" an instrument known to housebreakers,",LJ012-0102.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0103.wav,"which if introduced into a keyhole, and worked like a bit and brace, will soon destroy the strongest lock.",LJ012-0103.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0104.wav,"The thieves were satisfied with the diamonds; they broke open other cases containing gold watches and plate, but abstracted nothing.",LJ012-0104.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0105.wav,The police were of opinion that these robberies were both the work of the same hand.,LJ012-0105.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0106.wav,But it was not until the autumn that they traced some of the notes stolen from the Custom House to Jordan and Sullivan.,LJ012-0106.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0107.wav,"About this time also suspicion fell upon Huey, one of the clerks, who was arrested soon afterwards, and made a clean breast of the whole affair.",LJ012-0107.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0108.wav,"There was a hunt for the two well-known house-breakers, who were eventually heard of at a lodging in Kennington.",LJ012-0108.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0109.wav,"But they at once made tracks, and took up their residence under assumed names in a tavern in Bloomsbury.",LJ012-0109.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0110.wav,"The police lost all trace of them for some days, but at length Sullivan's brother was followed from the house in Kennington to the above-mentioned tavern.",LJ012-0110.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0111.wav,"Both the thieves were now apprehended, but only a small portion of the lost property was recovered,",LJ012-0111.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0112.wav,notwithstanding a minute search through the room they had occupied.,LJ012-0112.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0113.wav,"After their arrest, Jordan's wife and Sullivan's brother came to the inn, and begged to be allowed to visit this room;",LJ012-0113.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0114.wav,"but their request, in spite of their earnest entreaties,",LJ012-0114.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0115.wav,"was refused, at the instigation of the police. A few days later a frequent guest at the tavern arrived, and had this same room allotted to him.",LJ012-0115.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0116.wav,"A fire was lit in it, and the maid in doing so threw a lot of rubbish, as it seemed, which had accumulated under the grate, on top of the burning coals.",LJ012-0116.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0117.wav,"By-and-by the occupant of the room noticed something glittering in the center of the fire, which, to inspect more closely, he took out with the tongs.",LJ012-0117.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0118.wav,"It was a large gold brooch set in pearls, but a portion of the mounting had melted with the heat.",LJ012-0118.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0119.wav,"The fire was raked out, and in the ashes were found seven large and four dozen small brilliants, also seven emeralds,",LJ012-0119.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0120.wav,one of them of considerable size.,LJ012-0120.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0121.wav,"A part of the ""swag"" stolen from the bonded warehouse was thus recovered, but it was supposed that a number of the stolen notes had perished in the fire.",LJ012-0121.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0122.wav,The condign punishment meted out to these Custom House robbers had no deterrent effect seemingly.,LJ012-0122.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0123.wav,"Within three months, three new and most mysterious burglaries were committed at the West End, all in houses adjoining each other.",LJ012-0123.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0124.wav,"One was occupied by the Portuguese ambassador, who lost a quantity of jewelery from an escritoire, and his neighbors lost plate and cash.",LJ012-0124.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0125.wav,"Not the slightest clue to these large affairs was ever obtained, but it is probable that they were ""put up"" jobs, or managed with the complicity of servants.",LJ012-0125.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0126.wav,The next year twelve thousand sovereigns were cleverly stolen in the Mile End Road.,LJ012-0126.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0127.wav,"The gold-dust robbery of 1839, the first of its kind, was cleverly and carefully planned with the assistance of a dishonest employee.",LJ012-0127.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0128.wav,"A young man named Caspar, clerk to a steam-ship company,",LJ012-0128.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0129.wav,learnt through the firm's correspondence that a quantity of gold-dust,LJ012-0129.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0130.wav,brought in a man-of-war from Brazil had been transhipped at Falmouth for conveyance to London.,LJ012-0130.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0131.wav,"The letter informed him of the marks and sizes of the cases containing the precious metal,",LJ012-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0132.wav,"and he with his father arranged that a messenger should call for the stuff with forged credentials, and anticipating the rightful owner.",LJ012-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0133.wav,"The fraudulent messenger, by the help of young Caspar, established his claim to the boxes, paid the wharfage dues, and carried off the gold-dust.",LJ012-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0134.wav,"Presently the proper person arrived from the consignees, but found the gold-dust gone.",LJ012-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0135.wav,"The police were at once employed, and after infinite pains they discovered the person, one Moss, who had acted as the messenger.",LJ012-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0136.wav,"Moss was known to be intimate with the elder Caspar,",LJ012-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0137.wav,"father of the clerk to the steam-ship company, and these facts were deemed sufficient to justify the arrest of all three.",LJ012-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0138.wav,"They also ascertained that a gold-refiner,",LJ012-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0139.wav,"Solomons, had sold bar gold to the value of £1200 to certain bullion dealers.",LJ012-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0140.wav,"Solomons was not straightforward in his replies as to where he got the gold, and he was soon placed in the dock with the Caspars and Moss.",LJ012-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0141.wav,"Moss presently turned approver,",LJ012-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0142.wav,"and implicated ""Money Moses,"" another Jew, for the whole affair had been planned and executed by members of the Hebrew persuasion.",LJ012-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0143.wav,"Money Moses had received the stolen gold-dust from Moss' father-in-law, Davis, or Isaacs, who was never arrested,",LJ012-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0144.wav,"and passed it on to Solomons by his daughter, a widow named Abrahams.",LJ012-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0145.wav,"Solomons was now also admitted as a witness, and his evidence, with that of Moss, secured the transportation of the principal actors in the theft.",LJ012-0145.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0146.wav,In the course of the trial it came out that almost every one concerned except the Caspars had endeavored to defraud his accomplices.,LJ012-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0147.wav,"Moss peached because he declared he had been done out of the proper price of the gold-dust; but it was clear that he had tried to appropriate the whole of the stuff,",LJ012-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0148.wav,instead of handing it or the price of it back to the Caspars.,LJ012-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0149.wav,Money Moses and Mrs. Abrahams imposed upon Moss as to the price paid by Solomons;,LJ012-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0150.wav,Mrs. Abrahams imposed upon her father by abstracting a portion of the dust and selling it on her own account;,LJ012-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0151.wav,"Solomons cheated the whole lot by retaining half the gold in his possession, and only giving an I. O. U. for it,",LJ012-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0152.wav,which he refused to redeem on account of the row about the robbery.,LJ012-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0153.wav,"Moses, it may be added, was a direct descendant of Ikey Solomons.",LJ012-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0154.wav,"He was ostensibly a publican,",LJ012-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0155.wav,"and kept the Black Lion in Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane, where secretly he did business as one of the most daring and successful fencers ever known in the metropolis.",LJ012-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0156.wav,"His arrest and conviction cast dismay over the whole gang of receivers, and for a time seriously checked the nefarious traffic.",LJ012-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0157.wav,"It may be added that prison life did not agree with ""Money Moses""; a striking change came over his appearance while in Newgate.",LJ012-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0158.wav,"Before his confinement he had been a sleek round person, addicted obviously to the pleasures of the table.",LJ012-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0159.wav,"He did not thrive on prison fare,",LJ012-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0160.wav,"now more strictly meager, thanks to the inspectors and the more stringent discipline, and before he embarked for Australia to undergo his fourteen years,",LJ012-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0161.wav,he was reported to have fallen away to a shadow.,LJ012-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0162.wav,"Having brought down the records of great frauds, forgeries, and thefts from about 1825 to 1840,",LJ012-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0163.wav,I will now retrace my steps and give some account of the more remarkable murders during that period.,LJ012-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0164.wav,"No murder has created greater sensation and horror throughout England than that of Mr. Weare by Thurtell, Hunt, and Probert.",LJ012-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0165.wav,"As this was accomplished beyond the limits of the metropolis, and its perpetrators arraigned at Hertford,",LJ012-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0166.wav,"where the principal actor suffered death, the case hardly comes within the limits of my subject.",LJ012-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0167.wav,"But Probert, who turned king's evidence, and materially assisted conviction,",LJ012-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0168.wav,"was tried at the Old Bailey the following year for horse-stealing, and hanged in front of Newgate.",LJ012-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0169.wav,"The murder was still fresh in the memory of the populace, and Probert was all but lynched on his way to jail.",LJ012-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0170.wav,"According to his statement, when sentenced to death, he had been driven to horse-stealing by the execration which had pursued him after the murder.",LJ012-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0171.wav,"Every door had been closed against him, every hope of future support blasted.",LJ012-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0172.wav,"Since the calamitous event,"" he went on, ""that happened at Hertford, I have been a lost man.""",LJ012-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0173.wav,The event which he styles calamitous we may well characterize as one of the most deliberately atrocious murders on record.,LJ012-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0174.wav,"Thurtell was a gambler, and Weare had won a good deal of money from him.",LJ012-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0175.wav,"Weare was supposed to carry a ""private bank"" about with him in a pocket in his under waistcoat.",LJ012-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0176.wav,"To obtain possession of this, Thurtell with his two associates resolved to kill him.",LJ012-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0177.wav,The victim was invited to visit Probert's cottage in the country near Elstree.,LJ012-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0178.wav,"Thurtell drove him down in a gig, ""to be killed as he traveled,"" in Thurtell's own words.",LJ012-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0179.wav,"The others followed, and on overtaking Thurtell, found he had done the job alone in a retired part of the road known as Gill's Hill Lane.",LJ012-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0180.wav,"The murderer explained that he had first fired a pistol at Weare's head, but the shot glanced off his cheek.",LJ012-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0181.wav,"Then he attacked the other's throat with a penknife, and last of all drove the pistol barrel into his forehead.",LJ012-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0182.wav,"After the murder the villains divided the spoil, and went on to Probert's cottage, and supped off pork-chops brought down on purpose.",LJ012-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0183.wav,"During the night they sought to dispose of the body by throwing it into a pond, but two days later had to throw it into another pond.",LJ012-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0184.wav,Meanwhile the discovery of pistol and knife spattered with human blood and brains,LJ012-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0185.wav,"raised the alarm, and suspicion fell upon the three murderers, who were arrested.",LJ012-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0186.wav,"The crime was brought home to Thurtell by the confession of Hunt,",LJ012-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0187.wav,"one of his accomplices, who took the police to the pond, where the remains of the unfortunate Mr. Weare were discovered, sunk in a sack weighted by stones.",LJ012-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0188.wav,"Probert was then admitted as a witness, and the case was fully proved against Thurtell, who was hanged in front of Hertford Jail.",LJ012-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0189.wav,"Hunt, in consideration of the information he had given, escaped death, and was sentenced to transportation for life.",LJ012-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0190.wav,Widespread horror and indignation was evoked throughout the kingdom by the discovery of the series,LJ012-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0191.wav,"of atrocious murders perpetrated in Edinburgh by the miscreants Burke and Hare,",LJ012-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0192.wav,the first of whom has added to the British language a synonym for illegal suppression.,LJ012-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0193.wav,The crimes of these inhuman purveyors to medical science do not fall within the limits of this work.,LJ012-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0194.wav,"But Burke and Hare had their imitators further south,",LJ012-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0195.wav,"and of these Bishop and Williams, who were guilty of many peculiar atrocities, ended their murderous careers in front of the debtors' door at Newgate.",LJ012-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0196.wav,"Bishop, whose real name was Head, married a half-sister of Williams'. Williams was a professional resurrectionist, or body-snatcher,",LJ012-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0197.wav,"a trade almost openly countenanced when ""subjects"" for the anatomy schools were only to be got by rifling graves, or worse.",LJ012-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0198.wav,"Bishop was a carpenter, but having been suddenly thrown out of work, he joined his brother-in-law in his line of business.",LJ012-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0199.wav,After a little,LJ012-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0200.wav,"Bishop got weary of the dangers and fatigues of exhumation, and proposed to Williams that instead of disinterring they should murder their subjects.",LJ012-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0201.wav,Bishop confessed that he was moved to this by the example of Burke and Hare.,LJ012-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0202.wav,They pursued their terrible trade for five years without scruple and without detection.,LJ012-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0203.wav,"Eventually the law overtook them, but almost by accident.",LJ012-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0204.wav,"They presented themselves about noon one day at the dissecting room of King's College Hospital, accompanied by a third man,",LJ012-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0205.wav,"an avowed ""snatcher"" and habitué of the Fortune of War, a public-house in Smithfield frequented openly by men of this awful profession.",LJ012-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0206.wav,"This man, May, asked the porter at King's College if ""he wanted anything?"" the euphemism for offering a body.",LJ012-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0207.wav,"The porter asked what he had got, and the answer was, a male subject.",LJ012-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0208.wav,"Reference was made to Mr. Partridge, the demonstrator in anatomy,",LJ012-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0209.wav,"and after some haggling they agreed on a price, and in the afternoon the snatchers brought a hamper which contained a body in a sack.",LJ012-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0210.wav,"The porter received it, but from its freshness became suspicious of foul play.",LJ012-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0211.wav,"Mr. Partridge was sent for, and he with some of the students soon decided that the corpse had not died a natural death.",LJ012-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0212.wav,"The snatchers were detained, the police sent for, and arrest followed as a matter of course.",LJ012-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0213.wav,"An inquest was held on the body, which was identified as that of an Italian boy,",LJ012-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0214.wav,"Carlo Ferrari, who made a living by exhibiting white mice about the streets,",LJ012-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0215.wav,"and the jury returned a verdict of willful murder against persons unknown, expressing a strong opinion that Bishop,",LJ012-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0216.wav,"Williams, and May had been concerned in the transaction.",LJ012-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0217.wav,"Meanwhile, a search had been made at Nova Scotia Gardens, Bethnal Green, where Bishop and Williams lived.",LJ012-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0218.wav,"At first nothing peculiar was found; but at a second search the back-garden ground was dug up,",LJ012-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0219.wav,"and in one corner, at some depth, a bundle of clothes were unearthed, which, with a hairy cap,",LJ012-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0220.wav,were known to be what Ferrari had worn when last seen.,LJ012-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0221.wav,"In another portion of the garden more clothing, partly male and partly female, was discovered,",LJ012-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0222.wav,plainly pointing to the perpetration of other crimes.,LJ012-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0223.wav,These facts were represented before the police magistrate,LJ012-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0224.wav,"who examined Bishop and his fellows, and further incriminating evidence adduced, to the effect that the prisoners had bartered for a coach to carry ""a stiff 'un"";",LJ012-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0225.wav,"they had also been seen to leave their cottage, carrying out a sack with something heavy inside. On this they were fully committed to Newgate for trial.",LJ012-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0226.wav,"This trial came off in due course at the Central Criminal Court, where the prisoners were charged on two counts,",LJ012-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0227.wav,"one that of the murder of the Italian boy, the other that of a boy unknown.",LJ012-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0228.wav,"The evidence from first to last was circumstantial,",LJ012-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0229.wav,"but the jury, after a short deliberation, did not hesitate to bring in a verdict of guilty, and all three were condemned to death.",LJ012-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0230.wav,"Shortly before the day fixed for execution, Bishop made a full confession, the bulk of which bore the impress of truth,",LJ012-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0231.wav,although it included statements that were improbable and unsubstantiated.,LJ012-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0232.wav,"He asserted that the victim was a Lincolnshire lad, and not an Italian boy, although the latter was fully proved.",LJ012-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0233.wav,"According to the confession, death had been inflicted by drowning in a well, whereas the medical evidence all pointed to violence.",LJ012-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0234.wav,"It was, however, pretty clear that this victim, like preceding ones, had been lured to Nova Scotia Gardens, and there drugged with a large dose of laudanum.",LJ012-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0235.wav,While they were in a state of insensibility the murder was committed.,LJ012-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0236.wav,"Bishop's confession was endorsed by Williams, and the immediate result was the respite of May.",LJ012-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0237.wav,A very painful scene occurred in Newgate when the news of his escape from death was imparted to May.,LJ012-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0238.wav,"He fainted, and the warrant of mercy nearly proved his death-blow. The other two looked on at his agitation with an indifference amounting to apathy.",LJ012-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0239.wav,"The execution took place a week or two later, in the presence of such a crowd as had not been seen near Newgate for years.",LJ012-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0240.wav,"I will close this chapter with a brief account of another murder,",LJ012-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0241.wav,"the memory of which is still fresh in the minds of Londoners, although half a century has passed since it was committed.",LJ012-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0242.wav,The horror with which Greenacre's crime struck the town was unparalleled since the time when Catherine Hayes slew her husband.,LJ012-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0243.wav,There were many features of resemblance in these crimes.,LJ012-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0244.wav,"The decapitation and dismemberment, the bestowal of the remains in various parts of the town, the preservation of the head in spirits of wine,",LJ012-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0245.wav,"in the hope that the features might some day be recognized, were alike in both.",LJ012-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0246.wav,"The murder in both cases was long a profound mystery. In this which I am now describing,",LJ012-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0247.wav,"a bricklayer found a human trunk near some new buildings in the Edgeware Road, one morning in the last week of 1836.",LJ012-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0248.wav,"The inquest on these remains, which medical examination showed to be those of a female,",LJ012-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0249.wav,returned a verdict of willful murder against some person unknown.,LJ012-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0250.wav,"On the 7th July, 1837,",LJ012-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0251.wav,"the lockman of ""Ben Jonson lock,"" in Stepney Fields, found a human head jammed into the lock gates.",LJ012-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0252.wav,Closer investigation proved that it belonged to the trunk already discovered on the 2nd February.,LJ012-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0253.wav,"A further discovery was made in an osier bed near Cold Harbor Lane, Camberwell,",LJ012-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0254.wav,"where a workman found a bundle containing two human legs, in a drain.",LJ012-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0255.wav,"These were the missing members of the same mutilated trunk,",LJ012-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0256.wav,and there was now evidence sufficient to establish conclusively that the woman thus collected piecemeal had been barbarously done to death.,LJ012-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0257.wav,"But the affair still remained a profound mystery. No light was thrown upon it till, towards the end of March,",LJ012-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0258.wav,"a Mr. Gay of Goodge Street came to view the head, and immediately recognized it as that of a widowed sister, Hannah Brown,",LJ012-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0259.wav,who had been missing since the previous Christmas Day.,LJ012-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0260.wav,The murdered individual was thus identified. The next step was to ascertain where and with whom she had last been seen.,LJ012-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0261.wav,"This brought suspicion on to a certain James Greenacre,",LJ012-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0262.wav,"whom she was to have married, and in whose company she had left her own lodgings to visit his in Camberwell.",LJ012-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0263.wav,"The police wished to refer to Greenacre, but as he was not forthcoming,",LJ012-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0264.wav,"a warrant was issued for his apprehension, which was effected at Kennington on the 24th March.",LJ012-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0265.wav,"A woman named Gale, who lived with him, was arrested at the same time. The prisoners were examined at the Marylebone police court.",LJ012-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0266.wav,"Greenacre, a stout, middle-aged man, wrapped in a brown greatcoat, assumed an air of insolent bravado;",LJ012-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0267.wav,"but his despair must have been great, as was evident from his attempt to strangle himself in the station-house.",LJ012-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0268.wav,Suspicion grew almost to certainty as the evidence was unfolded.,LJ012-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0269.wav,"Mrs. Brown was a washer-woman, supposed to be worth some money; hence Greenacre's offer of marriage.",LJ012-0269.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0270.wav,"She had realized all her effects, and brought them with her furniture to Greenacre's lodgings. The two when married were to emigrate to Hudson's Bay.",LJ012-0270.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0271.wav,Whether it was greed or a quarrel that drove Greenacre to the desperate deed remains obscure.,LJ012-0271.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0272.wav,"They were apparently good friends when last seen together at a neighbor's, where they seemed ""perfectly happy and sociable, and eager for the wedding day.""",LJ012-0272.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0273.wav,"But Greenacre in his confession pretended that he and his intended had quarreled over her property or the want of it,",LJ012-0273.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0274.wav,and that in a moment of anger he knocked her down.,LJ012-0274.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0275.wav,"He thought he had killed her, and in his terror began at once to consider how he might dispose of the body and escape arrest.",LJ012-0275.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0276.wav,"While she was senseless, but really still alive, he cut off her head, and dismembered the body in the manner already described.",LJ012-0276.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0277.wav,"It is scarcely probable that he would have gone to this extremity if he had had no previous evil intention,",LJ012-0277.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0278.wav,and the most probable inference is that he inveigled Mrs. Brown to his lodgings with the set purpose of taking her life.,LJ012-0278.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0279.wav,"His measures for the disposal of the corpus delicti remind us of those taken by Mrs. Hayes and her associates,",LJ012-0279.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0280.wav,or of Gardelle's frantic efforts to conceal his crime.,LJ012-0280.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0281.wav,The most ghastly part of the story is that which deals with his getting rid of the head.,LJ012-0281.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0282.wav,"This, wrapped up in a silk handkerchief,",LJ012-0282.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0283.wav,"he carried under his coat-flaps through the streets, and afterwards on his cap in a crowded city omnibus.",LJ012-0283.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0284.wav,"It was not until he left the bus, and walked up by the Regent's Canal, that he conceived the idea of throwing the head into the water.",LJ012-0284.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0285.wav,"Another day elapsed before he got rid of the rest of the body,",LJ012-0285.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0286.wav,"all of which, according to his own confession, made no doubt with the idea of exonerating Mrs. Gale, he accomplished without her assistance.",LJ012-0286.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0287.wav,"On the other hand, it was adduced in evidence that Mrs. Gale had been at his lodgings the very day after the murder,",LJ012-0287.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0288.wav,and was seen to be busily engaged in washing down the house with bucket and mop.,LJ012-0288.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0289.wav,"Greenacre, when tried at the Old Bailey, admitted that he had been guilty of manslaughter.",LJ012-0289.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0290.wav,"While conversing with Mrs. Brown, he declared the unfortunate woman was rocking herself to and fro in a chair;",LJ012-0290.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0291.wav,"as she leant back he put his foot against the chair, and so tilted it over.",LJ012-0291.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0292.wav,"Mrs. Brown fell with it, and Greenacre, to his horror, found that she was dead.",LJ012-0292.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0293.wav,"But the medical evidence was clear that the decapitation had been effected during life, and the jury, after a short deliberation,",LJ012-0293.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0294.wav,without hesitation brought in a verdict of willful murder.,LJ012-0294.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0295.wav,"The woman Gale was also found guilty, but sentence of death was only passed on Greenacre.",LJ012-0295.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ012-0296.wav,"The execution was, as usual, attended by an immense concourse, and Greenacre died amidst the loudest execrations.",LJ012-0296.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 16: Newgate notorieties continued, part 1.",LJ013-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0002.wav,As the century advanced crimes of fraud increased.,LJ013-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0003.wav,"They not only became more numerous, but they were on a wider scale.",LJ013-0003.wav | |