| audio,transcription,file_name | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0214.wav,"and was accompanied throughout by ""an immense concourse of persons, eager to get a sight of the murderer's remains.",LJ009-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0215.wav,"All the shops in the neighborhood were shut, and the windows and tops of the houses were crowded with spectators.",LJ009-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0216.wav,"Hanging in chains upon the gibbet which had served for the execution,",LJ009-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0217.wav,"or on another specially erected on some commanding spot, had fallen into disuse by 1832.",LJ009-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0218.wav,"But there was an attempt to revive it at that date, when the act for dispensing with the dissection of criminals was passed.",LJ009-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0219.wav,A clause was inserted to the effect that,LJ009-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0220.wav,"the bodies of all prisoners convicted of murder should either be hung in chains, or buried under the gallows on which they had been executed,",LJ009-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0221.wav,according to the discretion of the court before whom the prisoners might be tried.,LJ009-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0222.wav,"The revival of this barbarous practice caused much indignation in certain quarters,",LJ009-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0223.wav,"but it was actually tried in two provincial towns, Leicester and Durham.",LJ009-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0224.wav,"At the first-named the exhibition nearly created a tumult, and the body was taken down and buried,",LJ009-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0225.wav,"but not before the greatest scandal had been caused by the unseemly proceedings of the crowd that flocked to see the sight. A sort of fair was held,",LJ009-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0226.wav,"gaming-tables were set up, cards were played under the gibbet, to the disturbance of the public peace and the annoyance of all decent people.",LJ009-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0227.wav,"At Jarrow Stake, where the Durham murderer's body was exposed, there were similar scenes, mingled with compassion for the culprit's family,",LJ009-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0228.wav,and a subscription was set on foot for them then and there at the foot of the gibbet.,LJ009-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0229.wav,"Later on, after dark, some friends of the deceased stole the body and buried it in the sand, and this was the end of hanging in chains.",LJ009-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0230.wav,After this a law was passed which prescribed that the bodies of all executed murderers should be buried within the walls of the jail.,LJ009-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0231.wav,"Although these objectionable practices had disappeared,",LJ009-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0232.wav,"there were still many shocking incidents at executions, owing to the bungling and unskilful way in which the operation was performed.",LJ009-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0233.wav,"The rope still broke sometimes, although it was not often that the horrid scene seen at Jersey at the beginning of the century was repeated.",LJ009-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0234.wav,"There the hangman added his weight to that of the suspended culprit,",LJ009-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0235.wav,"and having first pulled him sideways, then got upon his shoulders, so that the rope broke.",LJ009-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0236.wav,"To the great surprise of all who witnessed this dreadful scene,",LJ009-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0237.wav,"the poor criminal rose straight upon his feet, with the hangman on his shoulders, and immediately loosened the rope with his fingers.",LJ009-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0238.wav,"After this the sheriffs sent for another rope, but the spectators interfered, and the man was carried back to jail.",LJ009-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0239.wav,"The whole case was referred to the king, and the poor wretch, whose crime had been a military one, was eventually pardoned.",LJ009-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0240.wav,A somewhat similar event happened at Chester not long afterwards; the ropes by which two offenders were turned off broke a few inches from their necks.,LJ009-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0241.wav,"They were taken back to jail, and were again brought out in the afternoon, by which time fresh and stronger ropes had been procured,",LJ009-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0242.wav,and the sentence was properly and completely carried out.,LJ009-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0243.wav,"Other cases might be quoted,",LJ009-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0244.wav,"especially that of William Snow, alias Sketch, who slipped from the gallows at Exeter and fell to the ground.",LJ009-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0245.wav,"He soon rose to his feet, and hearing the sorrowful exclamations of the populace, coolly said,",LJ009-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0246.wav,"Good people, do not be hurried; I am not, I can wait.",LJ009-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0247.wav,"Similar cases were not wanting as regards the executions before Newgate. Others were not less horrible, although there was no failure of apparatus.",LJ009-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0248.wav,Sometimes the condemned man made a hard fight for life.,LJ009-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0249.wav,"When Charles White was executed in 1823 for arson, he arranged a handkerchief",LJ009-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0250.wav,in such a way that the executioner found a difficulty in pinioning his hands.,LJ009-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0251.wav,"White managed to keep his wrists asunder, and continued to struggle with the officials for some time. Eventually he was pinioned with a cord in the usual manner.",LJ009-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0252.wav,"On the scaffold he made a violent attempt to loosen his bonds, and succeeded in getting his hands free.",LJ009-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0253.wav,"Then with a strong effort he pushed off the white cap, and tried to liberate his neck from the halter, which by this time had been adjusted.",LJ009-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0254.wav,"The hangman summoned assistance, and with help tied the cap over White's face with a handkerchief.",LJ009-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0255.wav,"The miserable wretch during the whole of this time was struggling with the most determined violence, to the great horror of the spectators.",LJ009-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0256.wav,Still he resisted.,LJ009-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0257.wav,"and having got from the falling drop to the firm part of the platform, he nearly succeeded in tearing the handkerchief from his eyes.",LJ009-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0258.wav,"However, the ceremony went forward, and when the signal was given the drop sank.",LJ009-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0259.wav,"The wretched man did not fall with it, but jumped on to the platform, and seizing the rope with his hands, tried to avoid strangulation.",LJ009-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0260.wav,The spectacle was horrible;,LJ009-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0261.wav,"the convict was half on the platform, half hanging, and the convulsions of his body were appalling.",LJ009-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0262.wav,"The crowd vociferously yelled their disapproval, and at length",LJ009-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0263.wav,"the executioner forced the struggling criminal from the platform, so that the rope sustained his whole weight.",LJ009-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0264.wav,"His face was visible to the whole crowd, and was fearful to behold.",LJ009-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0265.wav,"Even now his sufferings were not at an end,",LJ009-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0266.wav,and his death was not compassed until the executioner terminated his sufferings by hanging on to his legs.,LJ009-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0267.wav,"When Luigi Buranelli was executed in 1855,",LJ009-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0268.wav,through the improper adjustment of the rope his sufferings were prolonged for five minutes;,LJ009-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0269.wav,"his chest heaved, and it was evident that his struggle was a fearful one.",LJ009-0269.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0270.wav,"A worse case still was that of William Bousfield, who, when awaiting execution for murder, about the same date,",LJ009-0270.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0271.wav,had attempted to throw himself upon the fire in his condemned cell.,LJ009-0271.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0272.wav,"He was in consequence so weak when brought out for execution, that he had to be carried by four men,",LJ009-0272.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0273.wav,two supporting his body and two his legs.,LJ009-0273.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0274.wav,"His wretched, abject condition, seated in a chair under the drop, was such as almost to unnerve the executioner Calcraft,",LJ009-0274.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0275.wav,who bad been further upset by a letter threatening to shoot him when he appeared to perform his task.,LJ009-0275.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0276.wav,"Calcraft, the moment he had adjusted the cap and rope, ran down the steps, drew the bolt, and disappeared.",LJ009-0276.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0277.wav,"For a second or two the body hung motionless, then, with a strength that astonished the attendant officials,",LJ009-0277.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0278.wav,"Bousfield slowly drew himself up, and rested with his feet on the right side of the drop.",LJ009-0278.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0279.wav,One of the turnkeys rushed forward and pushed him off.,LJ009-0279.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0280.wav,"Again the wretched creature succeeded in obtaining foothold, but this time on the left side of the drop.",LJ009-0280.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0281.wav,"Calcraft was forced to return, and he once more pushed Bousfield off,",LJ009-0281.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0282.wav,"who for the fourth time regained his foothold. Again he was repelled,",LJ009-0282.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0283.wav,"this time Calcraft adding his weight to the body, and the strangulation was completed.",LJ009-0283.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0284.wav,"It was stated in evidence before the Commission on Capital Punishment in 1864,",LJ009-0284.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0285.wav,"that Calcraft's method of hanging was very rough, much the same as if he had been hanging a dog.",LJ009-0285.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0286.wav,"There has never been much science in the system of carrying out the extreme penalty in this country; the ""finisher of the law""",LJ009-0286.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0287.wav,has come more by chance than fitness or special education to exercise his loathsome office.,LJ009-0287.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0288.wav,"Calcraft, of whom mention has just been made, was by trade a lady's shoemaker,",LJ009-0288.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0289.wav,and before he took to hanging he was employed as a watchman at Reid's brewery in Liquorpond Street.,LJ009-0289.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0290.wav,"He was at first engaged as assistant to the executioner Tom Cheshire, but in due course rose to be chief.",LJ009-0290.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0291.wav,"He was always known as a mild-mannered man of simple tastes, much given to angling in the New River, and a devoted rabbit fancier.",LJ009-0291.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0292.wav,"He was well known in the neighborhood where he resided, and the street gamins cried ""Jack Ketch"" as he went along the street.",LJ009-0292.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0293.wav,While Calcraft was in office other aspirants to fame appeared in the field.,LJ009-0293.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0294.wav,"One was Askern,",LJ009-0294.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0295.wav,"who had been a convicted prisoner at York, but who consented to act as hangman when Calcraft was engaged, and no other functionary could be obtained.",LJ009-0295.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0296.wav,It was not always easy to hire a hangman.,LJ009-0296.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0297.wav,"There is still extant a curious petition presented to the Treasury by Ralph Griffith, Esq., high sheriff of Flintshire,",LJ009-0297.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0298.wav,which sets forth that the petitioner had been at great expense by sending clerks and agents to Liverpool and Shrewsbury to hire an executioner.,LJ009-0298.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0299.wav,"The man to be hanged belonged to Wales, and no Welshman would do the job.",LJ009-0299.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0300.wav,"Traveling expenses of these agents cost £15, and another £10 were spent in the hire of a Shropshire man,",LJ009-0300.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0301.wav,"who deserted, and was pursued, but without success.",LJ009-0301.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0302.wav,"Another man was hired, himself a convict, whose fees for self and wife were twelve guineas.",LJ009-0302.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0303.wav,"Then came the cost of the gallows,",LJ009-0303.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ009-0304.wav,"4 pounds, 12 shillings; and finally the funeral, cart, coffin, and other petty expenses, amounting to seven pounds 10",LJ009-0304.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 13: Newgate notorieties, part 1.",LJ010-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0002.wav,In chapter two of the present volume I brought down the record of crime to the second decade of the present century.,LJ010-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0003.wav,"I propose now to continue the subject, and to devote a couple of chapters to criminal occurrences of a more recent date,",LJ010-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0004.wav,"only premising that as accounts become more voluminous I shall be compelled to deal with fewer cases,",LJ010-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0005.wav,taking in preference those which are typical and invested with peculiar interest. It is somewhat remarkable that a marked change soon comes over the Calendar.,LJ010-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0006.wav,"Certain crimes, those against the person especially, diminished gradually. They became less easy or remunerative.",LJ010-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0007.wav,Police protection was better and more effective;,LJ010-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0008.wav,"the streets of London were well lighted, the suburbs were more populous and regularly patrolled.",LJ010-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0009.wav,"People, too, were getting into the habit of carrying but little cash about them, and no valuables but their watches or personal jewelery.",LJ010-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0010.wav,"Street robberies offered fewer inducements to depredators, and evil-doers were compelled to adopt other methods of preying upon their fellows.",LJ010-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0011.wav,This led to a rapid and marked increase in all kinds of fraud;,LJ010-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0012.wav,and prominent in the criminal annals of Newgate in these later years will be found numerous remarkable instances of this class of offense --,LJ010-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0013.wav,"forgeries committed systematically, and for long periods, as in the case of Fauntleroy,",LJ010-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0014.wav,"to cover enormous defalcations; the fabrication of deeds, wills, and false securities",LJ010-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0015.wav,for the purpose of misappropriating funds or feloniously obtaining cash;,LJ010-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0016.wav,"thefts of bullion, bank-notes, specie, and gold-dust, planned with consummate ingenuity,",LJ010-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0017.wav,"eluding the keenest vigilance, and carried out with reckless daring;",LJ010-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0018.wav,jewel-boxes cleverly stolen under the very noses of owners or care-takers.,LJ010-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0019.wav,"As time passed,",LJ010-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0020.wav,the extraordinary extension of all commercial operations led to many entirely novel and often gigantic financial frauds.,LJ010-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0021.wav,"The credulity of investors, the unscrupulous dishonesty of bankers,",LJ010-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0022.wav,"the slackness of supervision over wholly irresponsible agents, produced many terrible monetary catastrophes,",LJ010-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0023.wav,"and lodged men like Cole, Robson, and Redpath in Newgate.",LJ010-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0024.wav,"While the varying conditions of social life thus brought about many changes in the character of offenses against property,",LJ010-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0025.wav,"those against the person became more and more limited to the most heinous, or those which menaced or destroyed life.",LJ010-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0026.wav,There was no increase in murder or manslaughter; the number of such crimes remained pretty constant proportionately to population.,LJ010-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0027.wav,Nor did the methods by which they were perpetrated greatly vary from those in times past.,LJ010-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0028.wav,"The causes also continued much the same. Passion, revenge, cupidity, sudden ebullitions of homicidal rage,",LJ010-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0029.wav,"the cold-blooded, calculating atrocity born of self-interest, were still the irresistible incentives to kill.",LJ010-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0030.wav,"The brutal ferocity of the wild beast once aroused, the same means, the same weapons were employed to do the dreadful deed,",LJ010-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0031.wav,the same and happily often futile precautions taken to conceal the crime.,LJ010-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0032.wav,"Pegsworth, and Greenacre, and Daniel Good merely reproduced types that had gone before, and that have since reappeared.",LJ010-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0033.wav,Esther Hibner was as inhuman in her ill-usage of the parish apprentice she killed as Martha Brownrigg had been.,LJ010-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0034.wav,"Thurtell and Hunt followed in the footsteps of Billings, Wood, and Catherine Hayes.",LJ010-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0035.wav,Courvoisier might have lived a century earlier.,LJ010-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0036.wav,"Hocker was found upon the scene of his crime, irresistibly attracted thither, as was Theodore Gardelle.",LJ010-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0037.wav,"Now and again there seemed to be a recurrence of a murder epidemic,",LJ010-0037.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0038.wav,"as there had been before; as in the year 1849, a year memorable for the Rush murders at Norwich,",LJ010-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0039.wav,"the Gleeson Wilson murder at Liverpool, that of the Mannings in London, and of many more.",LJ010-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0040.wav,"Men like Mobbs, the miscreant known as ""General Haynau"" on account of his blood-thirstiness, still murdered their wives;",LJ010-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0041.wav,"or like Cannon the chimney-sweeper, who savagely killed the policeman.",LJ010-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0042.wav,"A not altogether new crime, however, akin to murder,",LJ010-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0043.wav,"although happily never passing beyond dastardly attempts, cropped up in these times, and was often frequently repeated within a short interval.",LJ010-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0044.wav,The present Queen very soon after her accession,LJ010-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0045.wav,"became the victim of the most cowardly and unmanly outrages, and the attempted murder of the sovereign by Oxford in 1840",LJ010-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0046.wav,"was followed in the very next year by those of Francis and of Bean in two consecutive months,",LJ010-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0047.wav,while in 1850 Her Majesty was the victim of another outrage at the hands of one Pate.,LJ010-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0048.wav,"These crimes had their origin too often in the disordered brains of lunatics at large, like Captain Goode.",LJ010-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0049.wav,"Their perpetrators were charged with high treason, but met with merciful clemency as irresponsible beings.",LJ010-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0050.wav,But at various dates treason more distinct and tangible came to the front: attempts to levy war against the State.,LJ010-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0051.wav,"The well-known Cato Street conspiracy,",LJ010-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0052.wav,"which grew out of disturbed social conditions after the last French war, amidst general distress,",LJ010-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0053.wav,"and when the people were beginning to agitate for a larger share of political power, was among the earliest, and to some extent the most desperate, of these.",LJ010-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0054.wav,"Its ringleaders, Thistlewood and the rest, were after capture honored by committal as State prisoners to the Tower,",LJ010-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0055.wav,"but they came one and all to Newgate for trial at the Old Bailey, and remained there after conviction till they were hanged.",LJ010-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0056.wav,"Later on, the Chartists agitated persistently for the concession embraced in the so-called People's Charter, many of which",LJ010-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0057.wav,"are by this time actually, and by more legitimate efforts, engrafted upon our Constitution.",LJ010-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0058.wav,"But the Chartists sought their ends by riot and rebellion, and gained only imprisonment for their pains.",LJ010-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0059.wav,"Some five hundred in all were arrested, but as only three of these were lodged in Newgate, I shall not recur to them in my narrative.",LJ010-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0060.wav,The Cato Street conspiracy would have been simply ridiculous but for the recklessness of the desperadoes who planned it.,LJ010-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0061.wav,That some thirty or more needy men should hope to revolutionize England is a sufficient proof of the absurdity of their attempt.,LJ010-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0062.wav,"But they proceeded in all seriousness, and would have shrunk from no outrage or atrocity in furtherance of their foolhardy enterprise.",LJ010-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0063.wav,The massacre of the whole of the Cabinet Ministers at one stroke was to be followed by an attack,LJ010-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0064.wav,"upon ""the old man and the old woman,"" as they styled the Mansion House and the Bank of England.",LJ010-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0065.wav,"At the former the ""Provisional Government"" was to be established,",LJ010-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0066.wav,"which under Thistlewood as dictator was to rule the nation, by first handing over its capital to fire and pillage.",LJ010-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0067.wav,"This Thistlewood had seen many vicissitudes throughout his strange, adventurous career. The son of a respectable Lincolnshire farmer,",LJ010-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0068.wav,"he became a militia officer, and married a woman with £10,000, in which, however, she had only a life interest.",LJ010-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0069.wav,"She died early, and Thistlewood, left to his own resources,",LJ010-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0070.wav,"followed the profession of arms, first in the British service, and then in that of the French revolutionary Government.",LJ010-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0071.wav,It was during this period that he was said to have imbibed his revolutionary ideas.,LJ010-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0072.wav,"Returning to England,",LJ010-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0073.wav,"he found himself rich in a small landed property, which he presently sold to a man who became bankrupt before he had paid over the purchase money.",LJ010-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0074.wav,"After this he tried farming, but failed.",LJ010-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0075.wav,"He married again and came to London, where he soon became notorious as a reckless gambler and a politician holding the most extreme views.",LJ010-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0076.wav,"In this way he formed the acquaintance of Watson and others, with whom he was arraigned for treasonable practices, and imprisoned.",LJ010-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0077.wav,"On his release he sent a challenge to Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary, and was again arrested and imprisoned.",LJ010-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0078.wav,"On his second release, goaded by his fancied wrongs, he began to plot a dark and dreadful revenge,",LJ010-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0079.wav,"and thus the conspiracy in which he was the prime mover took shape, and came to a head.",LJ010-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0080.wav,The Government obtained early and full information of the nefarious scheme.,LJ010-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0081.wav,"One of the conspirators, by name Edwards,",LJ010-0081.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0082.wav,"made a voluntary confession to Sir Herbert Taylor one morning at Windsor; after which Thistlewood and his accomplices were closely watched,",LJ010-0082.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0083.wav,and measures taken to arrest them when their plans were so far developed that no doubt could remain as to their guilt.,LJ010-0083.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0084.wav,The day appointed for the murder and rising actually arrived before the authorities interfered.,LJ010-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0085.wav,It was the day on which Lord Harrowby was to entertain his colleagues at dinner in Grosvenor Square.,LJ010-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0086.wav,"The occasion was considered excellent by the conspirators for disposal of the whole Cabinet at one blow,",LJ010-0086.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0087.wav,"and it was arranged that one of their number should knock at Lord Harrowby's door on the pretense of leaving a parcel,",LJ010-0087.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0088.wav,and that when it was opened the whole band should rush in.,LJ010-0088.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0089.wav,"While a few secured the servants, the rest were to fall upon Lord Harrowby and his guests.",LJ010-0089.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0090.wav,"Hand-grenades were to be thrown into the dining-room, and during the noise and confusion the assassination of the ministers was to be completed,",LJ010-0090.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0091.wav,the heads of Lord Castlereagh and Lord Sidmouth being carried away in a bag.,LJ010-0091.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0092.wav,"Lord Harrowby's dinner-party was postponed, but the conspirators knew nothing of it,",LJ010-0092.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0093.wav,"and those who watched his house were further encouraged in their mistake by the arrival of many carriages,",LJ010-0093.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0094.wav,"bound, as it happened, to the Archbishop of York's.",LJ010-0094.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0095.wav,"Meanwhile the main body remained at their headquarters, a ruined stable in Cato Street,",LJ010-0095.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0096.wav,"Edgeware Road, completing their dispositions for assuming supreme power after the blow had been struck.",LJ010-0096.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0097.wav,"Here they were surprised by the police, headed by a magistrate, and supported by a strong detachment of Her Majesty's Guards.",LJ010-0097.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0098.wav,"The police were the first to arrive on the spot, the Guards having entered the street at the wrong end.",LJ010-0098.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0099.wav,"The conspirators were in a loft, approached by a ladder and a trap-door, access through which could only be obtained one by one.",LJ010-0099.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0100.wav,"The first constable who entered Thistlewood ran through the body with a sword, but others quickly followed,",LJ010-0100.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0101.wav,"the lights were extinguished, and a desperate conflict ensued.",LJ010-0101.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0102.wav,"The Guards, headed by Lord Adolphus Fitz Clarence, now reinforced the police, and the conspirators gave way.",LJ010-0102.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0103.wav,"Nine of the latter were captured, with all the war material, cutlasses, pistols, hand-grenades, and ammunition.",LJ010-0103.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0104.wav,"Thistlewood and fourteen more succeeded for the moment in making their escape, but most of them were subsequently taken.",LJ010-0104.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0105.wav,"Thistlewood was discovered next morning in a mean house in White Street, Moorfields.",LJ010-0105.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0106.wav,"He was in bed with his breeches on (in the pockets of which were found a number of cartridges), the black belt he had worn at Cato Street,",LJ010-0106.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0107.wav,and a military sash.,LJ010-0107.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0108.wav,"The trial of the conspirators came on some six weeks later, at the Old Bailey.",LJ010-0108.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0109.wav,"Thistlewood made a long and rambling defense, the chief features of which were abuse of Lord Sidmouth, and the vilification of the informer Edwards.",LJ010-0109.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0110.wav,"Several of the other prisoners took the same line as regards Edwards,",LJ010-0110.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0111.wav,and there seems to have been good reason for supposing that he was a greater villain than any of those arraigned.,LJ010-0111.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0112.wav,"He had been in a state of abject misery, and when he first joined ""the reformers,"" as the Cato Street conspirators called themselves,",LJ010-0112.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0113.wav,he had neither a bed to lie upon nor a coat to his back.,LJ010-0113.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0114.wav,"His sudden access to means unlimited was no doubt due to the profitable role he soon adopted of Government informer and spy,",LJ010-0114.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0115.wav,and it is pretty certain that for some time he served both sides;,LJ010-0115.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0116.wav,"on the one inveigling silly enthusiasts to join in the plot, and denouncing them on the other.",LJ010-0116.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0117.wav,"The employment of Edwards, and the manner in which the conspirators were allowed to commit themselves further and further before the law was set in motion against them,",LJ010-0117.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0118.wav,were not altogether creditable to the Government.,LJ010-0118.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0119.wav,"It was asserted, not without foundation, at these trials, that Edwards repeatedly incited the associates he was betraying",LJ010-0119.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0120.wav,"to commit outrage, to set fire to houses, throw hand-grenades into the carriages of ministers;",LJ010-0120.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0121.wav,"that he was, to use Thistlewood's words, ""a contriver, instigator, and entrapper.""",LJ010-0121.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0122.wav,"The Government were probably not proud of their agent, for Edwards, after the conviction had been assured, went abroad to enjoy, it was said,",LJ010-0122.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0123.wav,"an ample pension, so long as he did not return to England.",LJ010-0123.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0124.wav,"Five of the conspirators, Thistlewood, Ings, Brunt, Davidson, and Tidd, were sentenced to death,",LJ010-0124.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0125.wav,"and suffered in the usual way in front of Newgate, with the additional penalty of decapitation, as traitors, after they had been hanged.",LJ010-0125.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0126.wav,"A crowd as great as any known collected in the Old Bailey to see the ceremony, about which there were some peculiar features worth recording.",LJ010-0126.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0127.wav,The reckless demeanor of all the convicts except Davidson was most marked. Thistlewood and Ings sucked oranges on the scaffold;,LJ010-0127.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0128.wav,"they with Brunt and Tidd scorned the ordinary's ministrations,",LJ010-0128.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0129.wav,but Ings said he hoped God would be more merciful to him than men had been.,LJ010-0129.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0130.wav,"Ings was especially defiant. He sought to cheer Davidson, who seemed affected, crying out,",LJ010-0130.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0131.wav,"Come, old cock-of-wax, it will soon be over.",LJ010-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0132.wav,"As the executioner fastened the noose, he nodded to a friend he saw in the crowd;",LJ010-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0133.wav,"and catching sight of the coffins ranged around the gallows, he smiled at the show with contemptuous indifference.",LJ010-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0134.wav,"He roared out snatches of a song about Death or Liberty, and just before he was turned off,",LJ010-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0135.wav,yelled out three cheers to the populace whom he faced.,LJ010-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0136.wav,"He told the executioner to ""do it tidy,"" to pull it tight, and was in a state of hysterical exaltation up to the very last.",LJ010-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0137.wav,"Davidson, who was the only one who seemed to realize his awful situation, listened patiently and with thankfulness to the chaplain,",LJ010-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0138.wav,and died in a manner strongly contrasting with that of his fellows.,LJ010-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0139.wav,"After the five bodies had hung for half-an-hour, a man in a mask came forward to complete the sentence.",LJ010-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0140.wav,"Contemporary reports state that from the skillful manner in which he performed the decapitation,",LJ010-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0141.wav,he was generally supposed to be a surgeon.,LJ010-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0142.wav,"Be this as it may, the weapon used was only an ordinary axe, which rather indicates that force, not skill, was employed.",LJ010-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0143.wav,"This axe is still in existence, and is preserved at Newgate with various other unpleasant curiosities,",LJ010-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0144.wav,but is only an ordinary commonplace tool.,LJ010-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0145.wav,"These were the last executions for high treason, but not the last prisoners by many who passed through Newgate charged with sedition.",LJ010-0145.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0146.wav,"Attacks upon the sovereign, as I have said, became more common after the accession of the young Queen Victoria in 1838.",LJ010-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0147.wav,"It was a form of high treason not unknown in earlier reigns. In 1786 a mad woman, Margaret Nicholson,",LJ010-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0148.wav,tried to stab George III. as he was alighting from his carriage at the gate of St. James's Palace.,LJ010-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0149.wav,"She was seized before she could do any mischief,",LJ010-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0150.wav,"and eventually lodged in Bethlehem Hospital, where she died after forty years' detention, at the advanced age of one hundred.",LJ010-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0151.wav,"Again, a soldier, by name Hatfield, who had been wounded in the head, and discharged from the army for unsoundness of mind,",LJ010-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0152.wav,fired a pistol at George III. from the pit of Drury Lane theatre in 1800.,LJ010-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0153.wav,"William IV. was also the victim of a murderous outrage on Ascot race-course in 1832,",LJ010-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0154.wav,"when John Collins, ""a person in the garb of a sailor, of wretched appearance, and having a wooden leg,""",LJ010-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0155.wav,"threw a stone at the king, which hit him on the forehead, but did no serious injury.",LJ010-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0156.wav,"Collins, when charged, pleaded that he had lost his leg in action, that he had petitioned without success for a pension,",LJ010-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0157.wav,"and that, as he was starving, he had resolved on this desperate deed,",LJ010-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0158.wav,"feeling, as he said, that he might as well be shot or hanged as remain in such a state.",LJ010-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0159.wav,"He was eventually sentenced to death, but the plea of lunacy was allowed, and he was confined for life.",LJ010-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0160.wav,"None of the foregoing attempts were, however, so dastardly or determined as that made by Oxford upon our present gracious Queen",LJ010-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0161.wav,two years after she ascended the throne.,LJ010-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0162.wav,"The cowardly crime was probably encouraged by the fearless and confiding manner in which the Queen,",LJ010-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0163.wav,"secure as it seemed in the affections of her loyal people, freely appeared in public.",LJ010-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0164.wav,"Oxford, who was only nineteen at the time his offense was committed, had been born at Birmingham,",LJ010-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0165.wav,"but he came as a lad to London, and took service as a pot-boy to a publican.",LJ010-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0166.wav,"From this he was promoted to barman, and as such had charge of the business in various public-houses.",LJ010-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0167.wav,"He left his last situation in April 1840, and established himself in lodgings in Lambeth,",LJ010-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0168.wav,"after which he devoted himself to pistol practice in shooting-galleries, sometimes in Leicester Square,",LJ010-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0169.wav,"sometimes in the Strand, or the West End.",LJ010-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0170.wav,"His acquaintances often asked his object in this, but he kept his own counsel till the 10th June.",LJ010-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0171.wav,On that day Oxford was on the watch at Buckingham Palace.,LJ010-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0172.wav,"He saw Prince Albert return there from a visit to Woolwich, and then passed on to Constitution Hill,",LJ010-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0173.wav,"where he waited till four p.m., the time at which the Queen and Prince Consort usually took an afternoon drive.",LJ010-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0174.wav,"About six p.m. the royal carriage, a low open vehicle drawn by four horses, ridden by postilions, left the palace.",LJ010-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0175.wav,"Oxford, who had been pacing backwards and forwards with his hands under the lapels of his coat, saw the carriage approach.",LJ010-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0176.wav,"He was on the right or north side of the road. Prince Albert occupied the same side of the carriage, the Queen the left.",LJ010-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0177.wav,"As the carriage came up to him Oxford turned, put his hand into his breast, drew a pistol, and fired at the Queen.",LJ010-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0178.wav,"The shot missed, and as the carriage passed on, Oxford drew a second pistol and fired again.",LJ010-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0179.wav,"The Queen saw this second movement, and stooped to avoid the shot;",LJ010-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0180.wav,"the Prince too rose to shield her with his person. Again, providentially, the bullet went wide of the mark,",LJ010-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0181.wav,"and the royal party drove back to Clarence House, the Queen being anxious to give the first news of the outrage and of her safety to her mother,",LJ010-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0182.wav,the Duchess of Kent.,LJ010-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0183.wav,"Meanwhile the pistol-shots had attracted the attention of the bystanders, of whom there was a fair collection, as usual, waiting to see the Queen pass.",LJ010-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0184.wav,"Oxford was seized by a person named Lowe, who was at first mistaken for the assailant.",LJ010-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0185.wav,"But Oxford at once assumed the responsibility for his crime, saying, ""It was I. I did it. I'll give myself up.",LJ010-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0186.wav,There is no occasion to use violence. I will go with you.,LJ010-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0187.wav,"He was taken into custody, and removed first to a police cell, thence committed to Newgate, after he had been examined before the Privy Council.",LJ010-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0188.wav,Oxford expressed little anxiety or concern.,LJ010-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0189.wav,"He asked more than once whether the Queen was hurt, and acknowledged that the pistols were loaded with ball.",LJ010-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0190.wav,"A craze for notoriety, to be achieved at any cost, was the one absorbing idea in young Oxford's disordered brain.",LJ010-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0191.wav,"After his arrest he thought only of the excitement his attempt had raised, nothing of its atrocity,",LJ010-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0192.wav,or of the fatal consequences which might have ensued.,LJ010-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0193.wav,"When brought to trial he hardly realized his position,",LJ010-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0194.wav,"but gazed with complacency around the crowded court, and eagerly inquired what persons of distinction were present.",LJ010-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0195.wav,"He smiled continually, and when the indictment was read, burst into loud and discordant fits of laughter.",LJ010-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0196.wav,"These antics may have been assumed to bear out the plea of insanity set up in his defense,",LJ010-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0197.wav,"but that there was madness in his family, and that he himself was of unsound mind, could not be well denied.",LJ010-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0198.wav,"His father, it was proved in evidence, had been at times quite mad; and Oxford's mental state might be inferred from his own proceedings.",LJ010-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0199.wav,"Among his papers was found a curious document, purporting to be the rules of an association called",LJ010-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0200.wav,"Young England, which Oxford had evolved out of his own inflated self-conceit, and which had never any real corporeal existence.",LJ010-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0201.wav,"Young England was a secret society, with no aim or object.",LJ010-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0202.wav,"Its sworn members, known only to Oxford, and all of them mere shadows,",LJ010-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0203.wav,"were bound to provide themselves with sword, rifle, dagger, and a pair of pistols;",LJ010-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0204.wav,"to wear a black crape mask, to obey punctually the orders of their commander-in-chief,",LJ010-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0205.wav,"and to assume any disguise, if required to go into the country on the business of the association.",LJ010-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0206.wav,"The officers of the society were to be known only by ""factitious names.""",LJ010-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0207.wav,"Thus, among the presidents were those of Gowrie, Justinian, Aloman, Colsman, Kenneth, and Godfrey;",LJ010-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0208.wav,"Hannibal and Ethelred were on the council; Anthony, Augustus, and Frederic were among the generals;",LJ010-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0209.wav,"Louis and Amadeus among the captains; and Hercules, Neptune, and Mars among the lieutenants of the association.",LJ010-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0210.wav,The various grades were distinguished by cockades and bows of different colors.,LJ010-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0211.wav,"The society was supposed to meet regularly, and its proceedings, together with the speeches made, were duly recorded.",LJ010-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0212.wav,"With Oxford's other papers were found letters from the secretary, written as it seemed by Oxford to himself, after the manner of Mr. Toots,",LJ010-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0213.wav,all of which declared their approval of the commander-in-chief.,LJ010-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0214.wav,"One expressed pleasure that Oxford improved so much in speaking, and declared that his (Oxford's) speech the last time ""was beautiful.""",LJ010-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0215.wav,"This letter went on to say that a new member had been introduced by Lt. Mars, ""a fine, tall, gentlemanly young man,",LJ010-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0216.wav,"and it is said that he is a military officer, but his name has not yet transpired.",LJ010-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0217.wav,Soon after he was introduced we were alarmed by a violent knocking at the door;,LJ010-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0218.wav,"in an instant our faces were covered, we cocked our pistols, and with drawn swords stood waiting to receive the enemy.",LJ010-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0219.wav,"While one stood over the fire with the papers, another stood with lighted torch to fire the house.",LJ010-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0220.wav,"We then sent the old woman to open the door, and it proved to be some little boys who had knocked and ran away.",LJ010-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0221.wav,"Another letter directed Oxford to attend an extraordinary meeting of ""Young England""",LJ010-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0222.wav,in consequence of having received some information of an important nature from Hanover.,LJ010-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0223.wav,"You must attend; and if your master will not give you leave, you must come in defiance of him.",LJ010-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0224.wav,"No serious importance could be attached to these, the manifest inventions of a disordered intellect.",LJ010-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0225.wav,"The whole of the evidence pointed so strongly towards insanity, that the jury brought in a verdict of acquittal on that ground,",LJ010-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0226.wav,and Oxford was ordered to be detained during Her Majesty's pleasure.,LJ010-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0227.wav,"He went from Newgate first to Bethlehem, from which he was removed to Broadmoor on the opening of the great criminal lunatic asylum at that place.",LJ010-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0228.wav,"He was released from Broadmoor in 1878, and went abroad.",LJ010-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0229.wav,"Within a couple of years a second attempt to assassinate the Queen was perpetrated in nearly the same spot, by a man named John Francis,",LJ010-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0230.wav,"who was arrested in the very act, just as he had fired one shot.",LJ010-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0231.wav,His motives for thus imitating the dastardly crime of Oxford are shrouded in obscurity.,LJ010-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0232.wav,"He could not plead insanity like his predecessor, and no attempt was made at his trial to prove him of unsound mind.",LJ010-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0233.wav,"Here again probably it was partly the love of notoriety which was the incentive,",LJ010-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0234.wav,"backed possibly with the hope that, as in a much more recent case,",LJ010-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0235.wav,"he would be in some way provided for, he having been for some time previously in abject circumstances.",LJ010-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0236.wav,"The deed was long premeditated, and would have been executed a day earlier had not his courage failed him at the last moment.",LJ010-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0237.wav,"A youth named Pearson had seen him present a pistol at the Queen's carriage,",LJ010-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0238.wav,"but draw it back again, exclaiming presently, ""I wish I had done it.""",LJ010-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0239.wav,"Pearson weakly allowed Francis to go off without securing his apprehension, but later he gave full information.",LJ010-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0240.wav,"The Queen was apprised of the danger, and begged not to go abroad;",LJ010-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0241.wav,"but she declared she would not remain a prisoner in her own palace, and next day drove out as usual in an open barouche.",LJ010-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0242.wav,"Nothing happened till Her Majesty returned to Buckingham Palace about six p.m., when, on descending Constitution Hill,",LJ010-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0243.wav,"with an equerry riding close on each side of her carriage, a man who had been leaning against the palace garden wall suddenly advanced,",LJ010-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0244.wav,"leveled a pistol at the Queen, and fired. He was so close to the carriage that the smoke of his pistol enveloped the face of Colonel Wylde,",LJ010-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0245.wav,"one of the equerries. The Queen was untouched, and at first, it is said, hardly realized the danger she had escaped.",LJ010-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0246.wav,"Francis had already been seized by a policeman named Trounce, who saw his movement with the pistol, but too late to prevent its discharge.",LJ010-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0247.wav,"The prisoner was conveyed without delay to the Home Office, and there examined by the Privy Council, which had been hastily summoned for the purpose.",LJ010-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0248.wav,"On searching him the pistol was found in his pocket, the barrel still warm; also some loose powder and a bullet.",LJ010-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0249.wav,"There was some doubt as to whether the pistol when fired was actually loaded with ball, but the jury brought in a verdict of guilty",LJ010-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0250.wav,of the criminal intent to kill.,LJ010-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0251.wav,"Francis was sentenced to be hanged, decapitated, and quartered,",LJ010-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0252.wav,"the old traitor's doom, but was spared, and subsequently transported for life.",LJ010-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0253.wav,"The enthusiasm of the people at the Queen's escape was uproarious, and her drive next day was one long triumphal progress.",LJ010-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0254.wav,"At the Italian Opera in the evening the audience, on the Queen's appearance, greeted her with loud cheers, and called for the national anthem.",LJ010-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0255.wav,This was in May 1842.,LJ010-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0256.wav,"Undeterred by the well-merited punishment which had overtaken Francis,",LJ010-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0257.wav,a third miscreant made a similar but far less serious attempt in the month of July following.,LJ010-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0258.wav,"As the Queen was driving from Buckingham Palace to the Chapel Royal,",LJ010-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0259.wav,"a deformed lad among the crowd was seen to present a pistol at Her Majesty's carriage,",LJ010-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0260.wav,"in the Mall, about half-way between Buckingham and St. James's Palaces.",LJ010-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0261.wav,"Only one person saw the movement, a lad named Dasset, who at once collared the cripple, and taking him up to two policemen,",LJ010-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0262.wav,charged him with the offense.,LJ010-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0263.wav,"The policemen treated the matter as a hoax, and allowed the culprit to make off.",LJ010-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0264.wav,"Later on, however, Dasset was himself seized and interrogated,",LJ010-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0265.wav,"and on his information handbills were circulated, giving the exact description of the deformed youth, who had a hump-back,",LJ010-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0266.wav,"and a long, sickly, pale face, with light hair;",LJ010-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0267.wav,"his nose was marked with a scar or black patch, and he was altogether of a dirty appearance.",LJ010-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0268.wav,"It happened that a lad named Bean had absconded from his father's home some weeks before,",LJ010-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0269.wav,"whose description, as given by his father to the police,",LJ010-0269.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0270.wav,"exactly tallied with that of the deformed person ""wanted"" for the assault on the Queen.",LJ010-0270.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0271.wav,"A visit to the father's residence was followed by the arrest of the son, who had by this time returned.",LJ010-0271.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0272.wav,"This son, John William Bean, was fully identified by Dasset, and presently examined by the Privy Council.",LJ010-0272.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0273.wav,"He was eventually charged with a misdemeanor, the capital charge having been abandoned, and committed for trial.",LJ010-0273.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0274.wav,"Much the same motives of seeking notoriety seem to have impelled Bean, who was perfectly sane, to his rash act;",LJ010-0274.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0275.wav,"but it was proved that the pistol was not loaded with ball,",LJ010-0275.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0276.wav,"and he was only convicted of an attempt ""to harass, vex, and grieve the sovereign.",LJ010-0276.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0277.wav,"Lord Abinger sentenced him to eighteen months' imprisonment in Newgate,",LJ010-0277.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0278.wav,"but the place of durance was changed, to meet the existing law, to Millbank Penitentiary.",LJ010-0278.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0279.wav,"I shall mention briefly one more case, in which, however, there was no murderous intent, before I pass on to other crimes.",LJ010-0279.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0280.wav,"On June 1850 the Queen was once more subjected to cowardly outrage, the offender being a Mr. Pate, a gentleman by birth,",LJ010-0280.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0281.wav,"who had borne the Queen's commission, first as cornet, and then lieutenant, in the 10th Hussars.",LJ010-0281.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0282.wav,"Pate was said to be an eccentric person, given to strange acts and antics, such as mixing whiskey and camphor with his morning bath-water,",LJ010-0282.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0283.wav,and walking for choice through prickly gorse bushes.,LJ010-0283.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0284.wav,"He always kept the blinds down at his chambers in Jermyn Street; and as the St. James's clock chimed quarter-past three,",LJ010-0284.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0285.wav,"invariably went out in a cab, for which he always paid the same fare,",LJ010-0285.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0286.wav,"nine shillings, all in shillings, and no other coin.",LJ010-0286.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0287.wav,"But this was not sufficient to constitute lunacy, nor was his plea of ""momentary uncontrollable impulse""",LJ010-0287.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0288.wav,deemed valid as any palliation of his offense.,LJ010-0288.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0289.wav,"That offense was a brutal assault upon Her Majesty, whom he struck in the face with a small stick just as she was leaving Cambridge House.",LJ010-0289.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0290.wav,"The blow crushed the bonnet and bruised the forehead of the Queen, who was happily not otherwise injured.",LJ010-0290.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0291.wav,"Pate was found guilty, and sentenced to seven years' transportation, the judge, Baron Alderson, abstaining from inflicting the penalty of whipping,",LJ010-0291.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0292.wav,"which was authorized by a recent act, on account of Mr. Pate's family and position in life.",LJ010-0292.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0293.wav,"I have already remarked that as violence was more and more eliminated from crimes against the person,",LJ010-0293.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0294.wav,"frauds indicating great boldness, extensive design, and ingenuity became more prevalent.",LJ010-0294.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0295.wav,"The increase of bank forgeries, and its cause, I referred to in a previous chapter.",LJ010-0295.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0296.wav,"At one session of the Old Bailey, in 1821, no less than thirty-five true bills were found for passing forged notes.",LJ010-0296.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0297.wav,But there were other notorious cases of forgery.,LJ010-0297.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0298.wav,"That of Fauntleroy the banker, in 1824,",LJ010-0298.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0299.wav,"caused much excitement at the time on account of the magnitude of the fraud, and the seeming probity of the culprit.",LJ010-0299.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0300.wav,"Mr. Fauntleroy was a member of a banking firm, which his father had established in conjunction with a gentleman of the name of Marsh, and others.",LJ010-0300.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0301.wav,He had entered the house as clerk in 1800;,LJ010-0301.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0302.wav,"in 1807, and when only twenty-two, he succeeded to his father's share in the business.",LJ010-0302.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0303.wav,"According to Fauntleroy's own case, he found at once that the firm was heavily involved,",LJ010-0303.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0304.wav,"through advances made to various builders, and that it could only maintain its credit by wholesale discounting.",LJ010-0304.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0305.wav,"Its embarrassments were greatly increased by the bankruptcy of two of its clients in the building trade,",LJ010-0305.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0306.wav,"and the bank became liable for a sum of £170,000.",LJ010-0306.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0307.wav,"New liabilities were incurred to the extent of £100,000 by more failures, and in 1819,",LJ010-0307.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0308.wav,"by the death of one of the partners, a large sum in cash had to be withdrawn from the bank to pay his heirs.",LJ010-0308.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0309.wav,During these numerous and trying difficulties -- it is Mr. Fauntleroy who speaks --,LJ010-0309.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0310.wav,"the house was nearly without resources, and the whole burthen of management falling on me, I sought resources where I could;",LJ010-0310.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0311.wav,"in other words, he forged powers of attorney, and proceeded to realize securities lodged in his bank under various names.",LJ010-0311.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0312.wav,"Among the prisoner's private papers, one was found giving full details of the stock he had feloniously sold out,",LJ010-0312.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0313.wav,"the sum total amounting to some £170,000, with a declaration in his own handwriting to the following effect.",LJ010-0313.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0314.wav,"In order to keep up the credit of our house, I have forged powers of attorney for the above sums and parties,",LJ010-0314.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0315.wav,"and sold out to the amount here stated, and without the knowledge of my partners.",LJ010-0315.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0316.wav,"I kept up the payments of the dividends, but made no entries of such payments in my books.",LJ010-0316.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ010-0317.wav,"The bank began first to refuse our acceptances, and to destroy the credit of our house; the bank shall smart for it.",LJ010-0317.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 14: Newgate notorieties, part 1",LJ011-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0002.wav,Many stories were in circulation at the time of Fauntleroy's trial with regard to his forgeries. It was said that he had by means of them,LJ011-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0003.wav,"sold out so large an amount of stock, that he paid £16,000 a year in dividends to escape detection.",LJ011-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0004.wav,Once he ran a narrow risk of being found out.,LJ011-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0005.wav,"A lady in the country, who had £13,000 in the stocks, desired her London agent to sell them out.",LJ011-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0006.wav,"He went to the bank, and found that no stocks stood in her name. He called at once upon Fauntleroy, his client's bankers, for an explanation,",LJ011-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0007.wav,"and was told by Mr. Fauntleroy that the lady had desired him to sell out, ""which I have done,"" added the fraudulent banker, ""and here are the proceeds,""",LJ011-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0008.wav,whereupon he produced exchequer bills to the amount.,LJ011-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0009.wav,"Nothing more was heard of the affair, although the lady declared that she had never instructed Fauntleroy to sell.",LJ011-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0010.wav,"On another occasion the banker forged a gentleman's name while the latter was sitting with him in his private room,",LJ011-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0011.wav,and took the instrument out to a clerk with the ink not dry.,LJ011-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0012.wav,"It must be added that the Bank of England, on discovering the forgeries,",LJ011-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0013.wav,"replaced the stock in the names of the original holders, who might otherwise have been completely ruined.",LJ011-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0014.wav,A newspaper report of the time describes Fauntleroy as a well-made man of middle stature.,LJ011-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0015.wav,"His hair, though gray, was thick, and lay smooth over his forehead.",LJ011-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0016.wav,His countenance had an expression of most subdued resignation.,LJ011-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0017.wav,The impression which his appearance altogether was calculated to make was that of the profoundest commiseration.,LJ011-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0018.wav,"The crime, long carried on without detection, was first discovered in 1820,",LJ011-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0019.wav,"when it was found that a sum of £10,000, standing in the name of three trustees, of whom Fauntleroy was one,",LJ011-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0020.wav,had been sold out under a forged power of attorney.,LJ011-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0021.wav,"Further investigations brought other similar frauds to light,",LJ011-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0022.wav,"and fixed the whole sum misappropriated at £170,000, the first forgery dating back to 1814.",LJ011-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0023.wav,"A run upon the bank immediately followed, which was only met by a suspension of payment and the closing of its doors.",LJ011-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0024.wav,"Meanwhile public gossip was busy with Fauntleroy's name,",LJ011-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0025.wav,"and it was openly stated in the press and in conversation that the proceeds of these frauds had been squandered in chambering, gambling, and debauchery.",LJ011-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0026.wav,"Fauntleroy was scouted as a licentious libertine, a deep and determined gamester, a spendthrift whose extravagance knew no bounds.",LJ011-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0027.wav,"The veil was lifted from his private life, and he was accused of persistent immorality.",LJ011-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0028.wav,In his defense,LJ011-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0029.wav,"he sought to rebut these charges, which indeed were never clearly made out, and it is pretty certain that his own account of the causes which led him into dishonesty",LJ011-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0030.wav,was substantially true,LJ011-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0031.wav,"He called many witnesses, seventeen in all, to speak of him as they had found him; and these, all respectable city merchants and business men,",LJ011-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0032.wav,"declared that they had hitherto formed a high opinion of his honor, integrity, and goodness of disposition,",LJ011-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0033.wav,deeming him the last person capable of a dishonorable action.,LJ011-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0034.wav,"These arguments availed little with the jury, who after a short deliberation found Fauntleroy guilty, and he was sentenced to death.",LJ011-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0035.wav,"Every endeavor was used, however, to obtain a commutation of sentence. His case was twice argued before the judges on points of law,",LJ011-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0036.wav,but the result in both cases was unfavorable.,LJ011-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0037.wav,"Appeals were made to the Home Secretary, and all possible political interest brought to bear, but without success.",LJ011-0037.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0038.wav,"Fauntleroy meanwhile lay in Newgate, not herded with other condemned prisoners, as the custom was,",LJ011-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0039.wav,"but in a separate chamber, that belonging to one of the warders of the jail.",LJ011-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0040.wav,"I find in the chaplain's journal, under date 1824, various entries relative to this prisoner.",LJ011-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0041.wav,"Visited Mr. Fauntleroy. My application for books for him not having been attended, I had no prayer-book to give him.",LJ011-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0042.wav,Visited Mr. Fauntleroy. The sheriffs have very kindly permitted him to remain in the turnkey's room where he was originally placed; nor can I omit expressing a hope,LJ011-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0043.wav,"that this may prove the beginning of a better system of confinement, and that every description of persons who may be unfortunately under sentence of death",LJ011-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0044.wav,will no longer be herded indiscriminately together.,LJ011-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0045.wav,The kindliness of the city authorities to Fauntleroy was not limited to the assignment of a separate place of durance.,LJ011-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0046.wav,"As I have already said, they took the chaplain seriously to task for the bad taste shown in the condemned sermon preached before Fauntleroy.",LJ011-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0047.wav,"This was on the text,",LJ011-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0048.wav,"Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall,"" and was full of the most pointed allusions to the culprit.",LJ011-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0049.wav,"Fauntleroy constantly groaned aloud while the sermon proceeded, and contemporary reports declared",LJ011-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0050.wav,"that he appeared to feel deeply the force of the reverend gentleman's observations, especially when the chaplain spoke of",LJ011-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0051.wav,"the great magnitude of our erring brother's offense, one of the most dangerous description in a trading community.",LJ011-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0052.wav,"The sermon ended with an appeal to the dying man, exhorting him to penitence.",LJ011-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0053.wav,"This ""personality,"" and it can be called by no other name, is carefully excluded from prison pulpit utterances on the eve of an execution.",LJ011-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0054.wav,"A very curious and, in its way, amusing circumstance in connection with this case was the offer of a certain Italian,",LJ011-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0055.wav,"Edmund Angelini, to take Fauntleroy's place.",LJ011-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0056.wav,"Angelini wrote to the Lord Mayor to this effect,",LJ011-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0057.wav,"urging that Fauntleroy was a father, a citizen: ""his life is useful, mine a burthen, to the State.""",LJ011-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0058.wav,"He was summoned to the Mansion House, where he repeated his request, crying, ""Accordez moi cette grâce,"" with much urgency.",LJ011-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0059.wav,There were doubts of his sanity.,LJ011-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0060.wav,"He wrote afterwards to the effect that the moment he had offered himself, an unknown assassin came to aim a blow at him.",LJ011-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0061.wav,Let this monster give his name; I am ready to fight him. I am still determined to put myself in the place of Mr. Fauntleroy.,LJ011-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0062.wav,"If the law of this country can receive such a sacrifice, my death will render to heaven an innocent man, and to earth a repentant sinner.",LJ011-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0063.wav,Fauntleroy was not entirely dependent upon the ordinary for ghostly counsel in his extremity.,LJ011-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0064.wav,"He was also attended by the Rev. Mr. Springett and the indefatigable Mr. Baker, whose name has already been mentioned.",LJ011-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0065.wav,"When led out on the morning of his execution, these two last-named gentlemen each took hold of one of his arms, and so accompanied him to the scaffold.",LJ011-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0066.wav,"The concourse in front of Newgate was enormous, but much sympathy was evinced for this unfortunate victim to human weakness and ruthless laws.",LJ011-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0067.wav,"A report was, moreover, widely circulated, and the impression long prevailed, that he actually escaped death.",LJ011-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0068.wav,"It was said that strangulation had been prevented by the insertion of a silver tube in his wind-pipe,",LJ011-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0069.wav,and that after hanging for the regulated time he was taken down and easily restored to consciousness.,LJ011-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0070.wav,"Afterwards, according to the common rumor, he went abroad and lived there for many years; but the story is not only wholly unsubstantiated,",LJ011-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0071.wav,but there is good evidence to show that the body after execution was handed over to his friends and interred privately.,LJ011-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0072.wav,"Some years were still to elapse before capital punishment ceased to be the penalty for forgery, and in the interval",LJ011-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0073.wav,several persons were sentenced to or suffered death for this crime.,LJ011-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0074.wav,There were two notable capital convictions for forgery in 1828.,LJ011-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0075.wav,"One was that of Captain Montgomery, who assumed the aliases of Colonel Wallace and Colonel Morgan.",LJ011-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0076.wav,"His offense was uttering forged notes, and there was strong suspicion that he had long subsisted entirely by this fraud.",LJ011-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0077.wav,The act for which he was taken into custody was the payment of a forged ten-pound note for half-a-dozen silver spoons.,LJ011-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0078.wav,"Montgomery was an adept at forgery. He had gone wrong early. Although born of respectable parents, and gazetted to a commission in the army,",LJ011-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0079.wav,he soon left the service and betook himself to dishonest ways.,LJ011-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0080.wav,"His first forgery was the marvelous imitation of the signature of the Hon. Mr. Neville, M.P., who wrote an extremely cramped and curious hand.",LJ011-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0081.wav,"He was not prosecuted for this fraud on account of the respectability of his family, and soon after this escape",LJ011-0081.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0082.wav,"he came to London, where he practiced as a professional swindler and cheat.",LJ011-0082.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0083.wav,"For a long time justice did not overtake him for any criminal offense, but he was frequently in Newgate and in the King's Bench for debt.",LJ011-0083.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0084.wav,"After three years' confinement in the latter prison he passed himself off as his brother, Colonel Montgomery,",LJ011-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0085.wav,"a distinguished officer, and would have married an heiress had not the imposture been discovered in time.",LJ011-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0086.wav,"He then took to forging bank-notes, and was arrested as I have described above.",LJ011-0086.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0087.wav,"Montgomery was duly sentenced to death, but he preferred suicide to the gallows. After sentence his demeanor was serious yet firm.",LJ011-0087.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0088.wav,"The night previous to that fixed for his execution he wrote several letters, one of them being to Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a fellow-prisoner,",LJ011-0088.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0089.wav,"and listened attentively to the ordinary, who read him the well-known address written and delivered by Dr. Dodd previous to his own execution for forgery.",LJ011-0089.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0090.wav,But next morning he was found dead in his cell.,LJ011-0090.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0091.wav,"In one corner after much search a phial was found labeled ""Prussic acid,""",LJ011-0091.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ011-0092.wav,"which it was asserted he had been in the habit of carrying about his person ever since he had taken to passing forged notes, as an antidote against disgrace.",LJ011-0092.wav | |