| audio,transcription,file_name | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0004.wav,The most extensive and systematic robberies were planned and carried out so as long to escape detection.,LJ013-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0005.wav,"One of the earliest of the big operators in fraudulent finance was Edward Beaumont Smith,",LJ013-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0006.wav,who was convicted in 1841 of uttering false exchequer bills to an almost fabulous amount.,LJ013-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0007.wav,"A not entirely novel kind of fraud, but one carried out on a larger scale than heretofore,",LJ013-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0008.wav,"came to light in this same year, 1841.",LJ013-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0009.wav,"This was the willful shipwreck and casting away of a vessel which, with her supposed cargo, had been heavily insured.",LJ013-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0010.wav,"The 'Dryad' was a brig owned principally by two persons named Wallace, one a seaman, the other merchant.",LJ013-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0011.wav,She was freighted by the firm of Zulueta and Co. for a voyage to Santa Cruz.,LJ013-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0012.wav,"Her owners insured her for a full sum of £2000, after which the Wallaces insured her privily",LJ013-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0013.wav,with other underwriters for a second sum of £2000.,LJ013-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0014.wav,"After this, on the faith of forced bills of lading, the captain, Loose by name,",LJ013-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0015.wav,"being a party to the intended fraud, they obtained further insurances on goods never shipped.",LJ013-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0016.wav,It was fully proved in evidence that when the Dryad sailed she carried nothing but the cargo belonging to Zulueta and Co.,LJ013-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0017.wav,"Yet the Wallaces pretended to have put on board quantities of flannels, cloths, cotton prints,",LJ013-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0018.wav,"beef, pork, butter, and earthenwares, on all of which they effected insurances.",LJ013-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0019.wav,"Loose had his instructions to cast away the ship on the first possible opportunity, and from the time of his leaving Liverpool",LJ013-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0020.wav,he acted in a manner which excited the suspicions of the crew.,LJ013-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0021.wav,"The larboard pump was suffered to remain choked up, and the long-boat was fitted with tackles and held ready for use at a moment's notice.",LJ013-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0022.wav,"The ship, however, met with exasperatingly fine weather, and it was not until the captain reached the West India Islands",LJ013-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0023.wav,that he got a chance of accomplishing his crime.,LJ013-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0024.wav,At a place called the Silver Keys he ran the ship on the reef.,LJ013-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0025.wav,"But another ship, concluding that he was acting in ignorance, rendered him assistance.",LJ013-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0026.wav,"The 'Dryad' was got off, repaired, and her voyage renewed to Santa Cruz.",LJ013-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0027.wav,"He crept along the coast close in shore, looking for a quiet spot to cast away the ship,",LJ013-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0028.wav,"and at last, when within fifteen miles of port, with wind and weather perfectly fair, he ran her on to the rocks.",LJ013-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0029.wav,"Even then she might have been saved, but the captain would not suffer the crew to act. Nearly the whole of the cargo was lost as well as the ship.",LJ013-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0030.wav,"The captain and crew, however, got safely to Jamaica, and so to England; the captain dying on the voyage home.",LJ013-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0031.wav,The crime soon became public.,LJ013-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0032.wav,"Mate, carpenter, and crew were eager to disavow complicity, and voluntarily gave information.",LJ013-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0033.wav,"The Wallaces were arrested, committed to Newgate, and tried at the Old Bailey.",LJ013-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0034.wav,"The case was clearly proved against them, and both were sentenced to transportation for life.",LJ013-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0035.wav,"While lying in Newgate, awaiting removal to the convict ship, both prisoners made full confessions.",LJ013-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0036.wav,According to their own statements the loss of the 'Dryad' was only one of six intentional shipwrecks with which they had been concerned.,LJ013-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0037.wav,"The crime of fraudulent insurance they declared was very common, and the underwriters must have lost great sums in this way.",LJ013-0037.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0038.wav,The merchant Wallace said he had been led into the crime by the advice and example of a city friend who had gone largely into this nefarious business;,LJ013-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0039.wav,this Wallace added that his friend had made several voyages with the distinct intention of superintending the predetermined shipwrecks.,LJ013-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0040.wav,"The other Wallace, the sailor, also traced his lapse into crime to evil counsel.",LJ013-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0041.wav,"He was an honest sea-captain, he said, trading from Liverpool, where once he had the misfortune to be introduced to a man of wealth,",LJ013-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0042.wav,the foundations of which had been laid by buying old ships on purpose to cast them away.,LJ013-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0043.wav,"This person made much of Wallace, encouraged his attentions to his daughter,",LJ013-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0044.wav,and tempted him to take to fraudulent insurance as a certain method of achieving fortune.,LJ013-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0045.wav,"Wallace's relations warned him against his Liverpool friend,",LJ013-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0046.wav,"but he would not take their advice, and developing his transactions, ended as we have seen.",LJ013-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0047.wav,"A clergyman nearly a century later followed in the steps of Dr. Dodd, but did not under more humane laws lose his life.",LJ013-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0048.wav,"The Rev. W. Bailey, LL.D., was convicted at the Central Criminal Court, in February 1843, of forgery.",LJ013-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0049.wav,"A notorious miser, Robert Smith, had recently died in Seven Dials, where he had amassed a considerable fortune.",LJ013-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0050.wav,But among the charges on the estate he left,LJ013-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0051.wav,"was a promissory note for £2875, produced by Dr. Bailey, and purporting to be signed by Smith.",LJ013-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0052.wav,The executors to the estate disputed the validity of this document.,LJ013-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0053.wav,"Miss Bailey, the doctor's sister, in whose favor the note was said to have been given,",LJ013-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0054.wav,"then brought an action against the administrators, and at the trial Dr. Bailey swore that the note had been given him by Smith.",LJ013-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0055.wav,"The jury did not believe him, and the verdict was for the defendants.",LJ013-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0056.wav,"Subsequently Bailey was arrested on a charge of forgery, and after a long trial found guilty. His sentence was transportation for life.",LJ013-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0057.wav,"A gigantic conspiracy to defraud was discovered in the following year, when a solicitor named William Henry Barber,",LJ013-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0058.wav,"Joshua Fletcher a surgeon, and three others were charged with forging wills for the purpose of obtaining unclaimed stock in the funds.",LJ013-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0059.wav,There were two separate affairs.,LJ013-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0060.wav,"In the first a maiden lady, Miss Slack,",LJ013-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0061.wav,"who was the possessor of two separate sums in consols, neglected through strange carelessness on her own part and that of her friends",LJ013-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0062.wav,to draw the dividends on more than one sum.,LJ013-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0063.wav,"The other, remaining unclaimed for ten years, was transferred at the end of that time to the commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt.",LJ013-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0064.wav,"Barber, it was said, became aware of this,",LJ013-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0065.wav,and that he gained access to Miss Slack on pretense of conveying to her some funded property left her by an aunt.,LJ013-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0066.wav,By this means her signature was obtained; a forged will was prepared bequeathing the unclaimed stock to Miss Slack;,LJ013-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0067.wav,"a note purporting to be from Miss Slack was addressed to the governor of the Bank of England, begging that the said stock might be handed over to her,",LJ013-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0068.wav,"and a person calling herself Miss Slack duly attended at the bank, where the money was handed over to her in proper form.",LJ013-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0069.wav,"A second will, also forged, was propounded at Doctors Commons as that of a Mrs. Hunt of Bristol.",LJ013-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0070.wav,"Mrs. Hunt had left money in the funds which remained unclaimed, and had been transferred, as in Miss Slack's case.",LJ013-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0071.wav,"Here again the money, with ten years' interest, was handed over to Barber and another calling himself Thomas Hunt, an executor of the will.",LJ013-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0072.wav,"It was shown that the will must be a forgery,",LJ013-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0073.wav,"as its signature was dated 1829, whereas Mrs. Hunt actually died in 1806.",LJ013-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0074.wav,A third similar fraud to the amount of £2000 was also brought to light.,LJ013-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0075.wav,"Fletcher was the moving spirit of the whole business. It was he who had introduced Barber to Miss Slack,",LJ013-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0076.wav,and held all the threads of these intricate and nefarious transactions.,LJ013-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0077.wav,"Barber and Fletcher were both transported for life, although Fletcher declared that Barber was innocent, and had no guilty knowledge of what was being done.",LJ013-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0078.wav,"Barber was subsequently pardoned, but was not replaced on the rolls as an attorney till 1855,",LJ013-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0079.wav,"when Lord Campbell delivered judgment on Barber's petition, to the effect that",LJ013-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0080.wav,the evidence to establish his (Barber's) connivance in the frauds was too doubtful for us to continue his exclusion any longer.,LJ013-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0081.wav,Banks and bankers continued to be victimized.,LJ013-0081.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0082.wav,In 1844,LJ013-0082.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0083.wav,"the Bank of England was defrauded of a sum of £8000 by one of its clerks, Burgess, in conjunction with an accomplice named Elder.",LJ013-0083.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0084.wav,"Burgess fraudulently transferred consols to the above amount, standing in the name of Mr. Oxenford, to another party.",LJ013-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0085.wav,"A person, Elder of course, who personated Oxenford, attended at the bank to complete the transfer and sell the stock.",LJ013-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0086.wav,"Burgess, who was purposely on leave from the bank, effected the sale, which was paid for with a cheque for nearly the whole amount on Lubbock's Bank.",LJ013-0086.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0087.wav,"Burgess and Elder proceeded in company to cash this, but as they wanted all gold,",LJ013-0087.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0088.wav,"the cashier gave them eight Bank of England notes for £1000 each, saying that they could get so much specie nowhere else.",LJ013-0088.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0089.wav,"Thither Elder went alone, provided with a number of canvas and one large carpet-bag.",LJ013-0089.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0090.wav,"But when the latter was filled with gold it was too heavy to lift,",LJ013-0090.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0091.wav,"and Elder had to be assisted by two bank porters, who carried it for him to a carriage waiting near the Mansion House.",LJ013-0091.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0092.wav,"The thieves, for Elder was soon joined by Burgess, drove together to Ben Caunt's, the pugilist's, public-house in St. Martin's Lane,",LJ013-0092.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0093.wav,where the cash was transferred from the carpet-bag to a portmanteau.,LJ013-0093.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0094.wav,"The same evening both started for Liverpool, and embarking on board the mail steamer 'Britannia,' escaped to the United States.",LJ013-0094.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0095.wav,Burgess' continued absence was soon noticed at the bank.,LJ013-0095.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0096.wav,"Suspicions were aroused when it was found that he had been employed in selling stock for Mr. Oxenford, which developed into certainty",LJ013-0096.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0097.wav,as soon as that gentleman was referred to.,LJ013-0097.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0098.wav,"Mr. Oxenford having denied that he had made any transfer of stock, the matter was at once put into the hands of the police.",LJ013-0098.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0099.wav,"A smart detective, Forrester, after a little inquiry,",LJ013-0099.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0100.wav,"established the fact that the man who had personated Mr. Oxenford was a horse-dealer named Joseph Elder, an intimate acquaintance of Burgess'.",LJ013-0100.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0101.wav,"Forrester next traced the fugitives to Liverpool,",LJ013-0101.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0102.wav,"and thence to Halifax, whither he followed them, accompanied by a confidential clerk from the bank.",LJ013-0102.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0103.wav,"At Halifax Forrester learnt that the men he wanted had gone on to Boston, thence to Buffalo and Canada, and back to Boston.",LJ013-0103.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0104.wav,"He found them at length residing at the latter place, one as a landed proprietor, the other as a publican.",LJ013-0104.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0105.wav,"Elder, the former, was soon apprehended at his house, but he evaded the law by hanging himself with his pocket-handkerchief.",LJ013-0105.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0106.wav,The inn belonging to Burgess was surrounded,LJ013-0106.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0107.wav,"but he escaped through a back door on to the river, and rowed off in a boat to a hiding-place in the woods.",LJ013-0107.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0108.wav,"Next day a person betrayed him for the reward, and he was soon captured.",LJ013-0108.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0109.wav,"The proceeds of the robbery were lodged in a Boston bank,",LJ013-0109.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0110.wav,"but four hundred sovereigns were found on Elder, while two hundred more were found in Burgess' effects.",LJ013-0110.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0111.wav,"Burgess was eventually brought back to England, tried at the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to transportation for life.",LJ013-0111.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0112.wav,"Within a month or two the bank of Messrs. Rogers and Co., Clement's Lane, was broken into.",LJ013-0112.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0113.wav,Robberies as daring in conception as they were boldly executed were common enough.,LJ013-0113.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0114.wav,One night a quantity of plate was stolen from Windsor Castle; another time Buckingham Palace was robbed.,LJ013-0114.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0115.wav,Of this class was the ingenious yet peculiarly simple robbery effected at the house of Lord Fitzgerald in Belgrave Square.,LJ013-0115.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0116.wav,"The butler, on the occasion of a death in the family, when the house was in some confusion, arranged with a burglar to come in,",LJ013-0116.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0117.wav,"and with another carry off the plate-chest in broad daylight, and as a matter of business. No one interfered or asked any questions.",LJ013-0117.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0118.wav,"The thief walked into the house in Belgrave Square, and openly carried off the plate-chest, deposited it in a light cart at the door, and drove away.",LJ013-0118.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0119.wav,"Howse, the steward, accused the other servants, but they retorted, declaring that he had been visited by the thief the day previous,",LJ013-0119.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0120.wav,whom he had shown over the plate closet.,LJ013-0120.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0121.wav,"Howse and his accomplice were arrested; the former was found guilty and sentenced to fifteen years, but the latter was acquitted.",LJ013-0121.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0122.wav,Stealing plate was about this period the crime of a more aristocratic thief.,LJ013-0122.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0123.wav,"The club spoons and other articles of plate were long a source of profitable income to a gentleman named Ashley,",LJ013-0123.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0124.wav,who belonged to five good London clubs --,LJ013-0124.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0125.wav,"the Junior United Service, the Union, Reform, Colonial, and Erechtheum clubs.",LJ013-0125.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0126.wav,"When one of these clubs was taken in at the Army and Navy, that establishment also suffered.",LJ013-0126.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0127.wav,"Suspicion fell at length upon Ashley, who was seen to handle the forks and spoons at table in a strange manner.",LJ013-0127.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0128.wav,"A watch was set on his house, in Allington Street, Pimlico,",LJ013-0128.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0129.wav,"and one day a police constable tracked him to a silversmith's in Holborn Hill,",LJ013-0129.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0130.wav,"where Ashley produced four silver spoons, and begged that his initials might be engraved upon them.",LJ013-0130.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0131.wav,"Ashley was arrested as he left the shop; the spoons were impounded, and it was found that the club monogram had been erased from them.",LJ013-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0132.wav,"On a search of the prisoner's lodgings in Allington Street, a silver fork was found,",LJ013-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0133.wav,"a number of pawnbrokers' duplicates, and three small files. It was proved at the trial that Ashley had asked his landlady for brick-dust and leather,",LJ013-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0134.wav,and it was contended that these with the files were used to alter the marks on the plate.,LJ013-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0135.wav,"At most of the clubs the servants had been mulcted to make good lost plate, which had no doubt been stolen by the prisoner.",LJ013-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0136.wav,"Several pawnbrokers were subpoenaed and obliged to surrender plate, to the extent in some cases of a couple of dozen of spoons or forks,",LJ013-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0137.wav,which the various club secretaries identified as the property of their respective clubs.,LJ013-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0138.wav,"Ashley was the son of an army agent and banker,",LJ013-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0139.wav,"and many witnesses were brought to attest to his previous good character, but he was found guilty and sentenced to seven years' transportation.",LJ013-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0140.wav,"A robbery of a somewhat novel kind was executed in rather a bungling fashion by Ker, a sea-captain,",LJ013-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0141.wav,whose ship brought home a mixed cargo from Bahia and other ports.,LJ013-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0142.wav,Part of the freight were four hundred rough diamonds valued at £4000.,LJ013-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0143.wav,"These packages were consigned to Messrs. Shroeder of London; and as it was known that they were to arrive in Ker's ship,",LJ013-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0144.wav,"one of the owners had met her at Deal, but the captain had already absconded with the packages of precious stones in his pocket.",LJ013-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0145.wav,"Ker came at once to London, and, by the help of the landlord of a public-house in Smithfield and others, disposed of the whole of the diamonds.",LJ013-0145.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0146.wav,"A Jew named Benjamin effected the sale to certain merchants named Blogg and Martin,",LJ013-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0147.wav,who declared that the rough diamond market was in such a depressed condition that they could only afford to give £1750 for stones worth,LJ013-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0148.wav,four thousand pounds,LJ013-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0149.wav,The circumstances of this purchase of brilliants from a stranger at such an inadequate price was strongly commented upon at Ker's trial.,LJ013-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0150.wav,"The moment it was discovered that the diamonds had disappeared, the affair was taken up by the police.",LJ013-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0151.wav,"Forrester, the detective who had pursued and captured Burgess at Boston, tracked Ker to France, and following him there, eventually captured him",LJ013-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0152.wav,"at Montreuil. He was arraigned at the Old Bailey, and the case fully proved. His sentence was seven years' transportation.",LJ013-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0153.wav,"The gravest crimes continued at intervals to inspire the town with horror, and concentrate public attention upon the jail of Newgate,",LJ013-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0154.wav,and the murderers immured within its walls.,LJ013-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0155.wav,"Courvoisier's case made a great stir. There was unusual atrocity in this murder of an aged, infirm gentleman,",LJ013-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0156.wav,"a scion of the ducal house of Bedford, by his confidential valet and personal attendant.",LJ013-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0157.wav,"Lord William Russell lived alone in Norfolk Street, Park Lane. He was a widower, and seventy-three years of age.",LJ013-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0158.wav,One morning in May his lordship was found dead in his bed with his throat cut.,LJ013-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0159.wav,"The fact of the murder was first discovered by the housemaid,",LJ013-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0160.wav,"who, on going down early, was surprised to find the dining-room in a state of utter confusion;",LJ013-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0161.wav,"the furniture turned upside down, the drawers of the escritoire open and rifled,",LJ013-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0162.wav,"a bundle lying on the floor, as though thieves had been interrupted in the act.",LJ013-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0163.wav,"The housemaid summoned the cook, and both went to call the valet, Courvoisier,",LJ013-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0164.wav,"who came from his room ready dressed, a suspicious circumstance, as he was always late in the morning.",LJ013-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0165.wav,"The housemaid suggested that they should see if his lordship was all right, and the three went to his bedroom.",LJ013-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0166.wav,"While Courvoisier opened the shutters, the housemaid, approaching the bed, saw that the pillow was saturated with blood.",LJ013-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0167.wav,"The discovery of the murdered man immediately followed. The neighborhood was alarmed, the police sent for, and a close inquiry forthwith commenced.",LJ013-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0168.wav,That Lord William Russell had committed suicide was at once declared impossible.,LJ013-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0169.wav,It was also clearly proved that no forcible entry had been made into the house;,LJ013-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0170.wav,"the fresh marks of violence upon the door had evidently been made inside, and not from outside;",LJ013-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0171.wav,"moreover, the instruments, poker and chisel, by which they had no doubt been effected,",LJ013-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0172.wav,"were found in the butler's pantry, used by Courvoisier.",LJ013-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0173.wav,The researches of the police soon laid bare other suspicious facts.,LJ013-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0174.wav,"The bundle found in the dining-room contained, with clothes, various small articles of plate and jewelery which a thief would probably have put into his pocket.",LJ013-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0175.wav,"Upstairs in the bedroom a rouleaux box for sovereigns had been broken open,",LJ013-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0176.wav,"also the jewel-box and note-case, from the latter of which was abstracted a ten-pound note known to have been in the possession of the deceased.",LJ013-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0177.wav,His lordship's watch was gone.,LJ013-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0178.wav,Further suspicion was caused by the position of a book and a wax candle by the bedside.,LJ013-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0179.wav,"The latter was so placed that it could throw no light on the former, which was a 'Life of Sir Samuel Romilly.'",LJ013-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0180.wav,"The intention of the real murderer to shift the crime to burglars was evident although futile,",LJ013-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0181.wav,"and the police, feeling convinced that the crime had been committed by some inmate of the house,",LJ013-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0182.wav,"took Courvoisier into custody, and placed the two female servants under surveillance.",LJ013-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0183.wav,The valet's strange demeanor had attracted attention from the first.,LJ013-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0184.wav,"He had hung over the body in a state of dreadful agitation, answering no questions, and taking no part in the proceedings.",LJ013-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0185.wav,Three days later a close search of the butler's pantry produced fresh circumstantial evidence.,LJ013-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0186.wav,Behind the skirting board several of his lordship's rings were discovered;,LJ013-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0187.wav,"near it was his Waterloo medal, and the above-mentioned ten-pound note.",LJ013-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0188.wav,"Further investigation was rewarded by the discovery in the pantry of a split gold ring, used by Lord William to carry his keys on;",LJ013-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0189.wav,"next, and in the same place, a chased gold key;",LJ013-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0190.wav,and at last his lordship's watch was found secreted under the leads of the sink.,LJ013-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0191.wav,All this was evidence sufficient to warrant Courvoisier's committal for trial;,LJ013-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0192.wav,"but still he found friends, and a liberal subscription was raised among the foreign servants in London to provide funds for his defense.",LJ013-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0193.wav,"Courvoisier, when put on his trial, pleaded not guilty;",LJ013-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0194.wav,"but on the second day the discovery of fresh evidence, more particularly the recovery of some of Lord William's stolen plate,",LJ013-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0195.wav,induced the prisoner to make a full confession of his crime to the lawyers who defended him.,LJ013-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0196.wav,This placed them in a position of much embarrassment. To have thrown up their brief would have been to have secured Courvoisier's conviction.,LJ013-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0197.wav,"Mr. Phillips, who led in the case, went to the other extreme,",LJ013-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0198.wav,and in an impassioned address implored the jury not to send an innocent man to the gallows.,LJ013-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0199.wav,It will be remembered that the question whether Mr. Phillips had not exceeded the limits usually allowed to counsel was much debated at the time.,LJ013-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0200.wav,"The jury without hesitation found Courvoisier guilty, and he was sentenced to death.",LJ013-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0201.wav,The prisoner's demeanor had greatly changed during the trial.,LJ013-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0202.wav,Coolness amounting almost to effrontery gave way to hopeless dejection.,LJ013-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0203.wav,"On his removal to Newgate after sentence,",LJ013-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0204.wav,"he admitted that he had been justly convicted, and expressed great anxiety that his fellow-servants should be relieved from all suspicion.",LJ013-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0205.wav,"Later in the day he tried to commit suicide by cramming a towel down his throat, but was prevented.",LJ013-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0206.wav,"Next morning he made a full confession in presence of his attorney, and the governor, Mr. Cope.",LJ013-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0207.wav,"In this he gave as the motives of his crime a quarrel he had with his master, who threatened to discharge him without a character.",LJ013-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0208.wav,"Lord William, according to the valet, was of a peevish, difficult temper;",LJ013-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0209.wav,"he was annoyed with his man for various small omissions and acts of forgetfulness, and on the night of the murder had taken Courvoisier to task rather sharply.",LJ013-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0210.wav,"Finally, on coming downstairs after bed-time, Lord William had found Courvoisier in the dining-room.",LJ013-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0211.wav,What are you doing here? asked his lordship.,LJ013-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0212.wav,You can have no good intentions; you must quit my service tomorrow morning.,LJ013-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0213.wav,"This seems to have decided Courvoisier,",LJ013-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0214.wav,"who took a carving-knife from the sideboard in the dining-room, went upstairs to Lord William's bedroom, and drew the knife across his throat.",LJ013-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0215.wav,"He appeared to die instantly, said the murderer, in conclusion.",LJ013-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0216.wav,His account of his acts and movements after the deed,LJ013-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0217.wav,"varied so considerably in the several documents he left behind, that too much reliance cannot be placed upon his confession.",LJ013-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0218.wav,"His last statement contains the words, ""The public now think I am a liar, and they will not believe me when I say the truth.""",LJ013-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0219.wav,"This was no doubt the case, but this much truth his confession may be taken to contain:",LJ013-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0220.wav,"that Courvoisier was idle, discontented, ready to take offense, greedy of gain;",LJ013-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0221.wav,that he could not resist the opportunity for robbery offered him by his situation at Lord William Russell's; that when vexed with his master,LJ013-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0222.wav,"he did not shrink from murder, both for revenge and to conceal his other crimes.",LJ013-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0223.wav,"Courvoisier wished to commit suicide in Newgate, but was prevented by the vigilant supervision to which he was subjected while in jail.",LJ013-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0224.wav,The attempt was to have been made by opening a vein and allowing himself to bleed to death.,LJ013-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0225.wav,The Sunday night before his execution he would not go to bed when ordered.,LJ013-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0226.wav,"The governor insisted, but Courvoisier showed great reluctance to strip.",LJ013-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0227.wav,"The order was, however, at length obeyed, and the whole of the prisoner's clothes were minutely searched.",LJ013-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0228.wav,"In the pocket of the coat Mr. Cope, the governor, found a neatly-folded cloth, and asked what it was for.",LJ013-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0229.wav,Courvoisier admitted that he had intended to bind it tightly round his arm and bleed himself to death in the night.,LJ013-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0230.wav,"The next inquiry was how he hoped to open a vein. ""With a bit of sharpened stick picked out of the ordinary firewood.""",LJ013-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0231.wav,Where is it? asked the governor.,LJ013-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0232.wav,The prisoner replied that he had left it in the mattress of which he had just been deprived.,LJ013-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0233.wav,"The bed was searched, but no piece of sharpened wood was found. It was thought that it might have been lost in changing the mattresses.",LJ013-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0234.wav,"The cloth above referred to belonged to the inner seam of his trousers, which he had managed to tear out.",LJ013-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0235.wav,There is nothing to show that Courvoisier really contemplated self-destruction.,LJ013-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0236.wav,"A murder which reproduced many of the features of that committed by Greenacre soon followed, and excited the public mind even more than that of Courvoisier's.",LJ013-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0237.wav,Daniel Good's crime might have remained long undiscovered but for his own careless stupidity.,LJ013-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0238.wav,"He was coachman to a gentleman at Roehampton. One day he went into a pawnbroker's at Wandsworth, and bought a pair of breeches on credit.",LJ013-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0239.wav,At the same time he was seen to steal and secrete a pair of trousers. The shop-boy gave information.,LJ013-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0240.wav,"Good was followed to his stables by a policeman, but obstinately denied the theft.",LJ013-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0241.wav,"The policeman insisted on searching the premises, at which Good displayed some uneasiness.",LJ013-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0242.wav,"This increased when the officer, accompanied by two others, a neighbor and a bailiff, entered one of the stables.",LJ013-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0243.wav,Good now offered to go to Wandsworth and satisfy the pawnbroker.,LJ013-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0244.wav,"Just at this moment, however, the searchers found concealed under two trusses of hay a woman's headless and dismembered trunk.",LJ013-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0245.wav,At the constable's cry of alarm Good rushed from the stable and locked the door behind him.,LJ013-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0246.wav,"Some time elapsed before the imprisoned party could force open the doors, and by then the fugitive had escaped.",LJ013-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0247.wav,"Medical assistance having been summoned, it was ascertained how the dismemberment had been effected.",LJ013-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0248.wav,"At the same time an overpowering odor attracted them to the adjoining harness-room, where the missing remains were raked out",LJ013-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0249.wav,half consumed in the ashes of a wood fire.,LJ013-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0250.wav,In the same room a large axe and saw were found covered with blood.,LJ013-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0251.wav,"Inquiry into the character of Good exposed him as a loose liver, who ""kept company"" with several women.",LJ013-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0252.wav,"One called his sister, but supposed to be his wife, had occupied a room in South Street, Manchester Square,",LJ013-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0253.wav,"with a son of Good's by a former wife. Another wife, real or fictitious, existed in Spitalfields,",LJ013-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0254.wav,"and evidence was given of close relation between Good and a third woman, a girl named Butcher, residing at Woolwich.",LJ013-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0255.wav,The victim was the first of these three.,LJ013-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0256.wav,"Good had told her, much to her perturbation, that she was to move from South Street to Roehampton, and one day he fetched her.",LJ013-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0257.wav,"They were seen together on Barnes Common, and again in Putney Park Lane, where they were talking loud and angrily.",LJ013-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0258.wav,The poor creature was never seen again alive.,LJ013-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0259.wav,The actual method of the murder was never exactly ascertained.,LJ013-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0260.wav,"Good himself remained at large for some weeks. He had tramped as far as Tunbridge, where he obtained work as a bricklayer's laborer;",LJ013-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0261.wav,"he there gave satisfaction for industry, but he was taciturn, and would hold no converse with his fellows.",LJ013-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0262.wav,"The woman where he lodged noticed that he was very restless at night, moaning and sighing much. Detection came unexpectedly.",LJ013-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0263.wav,"He was recognized by an ex-policeman who had known him at Roehampton, and immediately arrested.",LJ013-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0264.wav,"In his effects were found the clothes he had on at the time of his escape from the stables, and under the jacket he was wearing",LJ013-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0265.wav,"was a piece of a woman's calico apron stained with blood, which he had used to save the pressure on his shoulder by the hod.",LJ013-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0266.wav,"Good was committed to Newgate, and tried at the Central Criminal Court before a crowded court.",LJ013-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0267.wav,"He made a rambling defense, ending by saying,",LJ013-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ013-0268.wav,"Good ladies and gentlemen all, I have a great deal more to say, but I am so bad I cannot say it.",LJ013-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 17: Newgate notorieties continued, part 2.",LJ014-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0002.wav,"Hocker's murder is in its way interesting, as affording another proof of the extraordinary way in which the culprit returned to the scene of his guilt.",LJ014-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0003.wav,"The cries of his victim, a Mr. Delarue,",LJ014-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0004.wav,"brought passers-by and policemen to the spot, a lonely place near a dead wall beyond Belsize Hall, Hampstead,",LJ014-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0005.wav,but too late to give substantial aid.,LJ014-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0006.wav,"While the body lay there still warm, battered and bleeding from the cruel blows inflicted upon him by his cowardly assailant, a man came by singing.",LJ014-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0007.wav,"He entered into conversation with the policemen, and learnt, as it seemed for the first time, what had happened.",LJ014-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0008.wav,"His remark was, ""It is a nasty job;"" he took hold of the dead hand, and confessed that he felt ""queer"" at the shocking sight.",LJ014-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0009.wav,"This sight was his own handiwork,",LJ014-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0010.wav,"yet he could not overcome the strange fascination it had for him, and remained by the side of the corpse till the stretcher came.",LJ014-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0011.wav,Even then he followed it as far as Belsize Lane.,LJ014-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0012.wav,It was here that the others engaged in their dismal office in removing the dead first got a good look at the stranger's face.,LJ014-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0013.wav,"He wanted a light for a cigar, and got it from a lantern which was lifted up and fully betrayed his features.",LJ014-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0014.wav,"It was noticed that he wore a mackintosh. Next day the police, in making a careful search of the scene of the murder,",LJ014-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0015.wav,"picked up a coat-button, which afterwards played an important part in the identification of the murderer.",LJ014-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0016.wav,"A letter, which afforded an additional clue, was also found in the pocket of the deceased. Still it was many weeks before any arrest was made.",LJ014-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0017.wav,In the mean time the police were not idle.,LJ014-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0018.wav,It came out by degrees that the person who had been seen in Belsize Lane on the night the body was found was a friend of the deceased.,LJ014-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0019.wav,His name was Hocker; he was by trade a ladies' shoemaker; and it was also ascertained that after the day of the murder he was flush of money.,LJ014-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0020.wav,"He was soon afterwards arrested on suspicion, and a search of his lodgings brought to light several garments saturated with blood;",LJ014-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0021.wav,"a coat among them much torn and stained, with three buttons missing, one of which corresponded with that picked up at Hampstead.",LJ014-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0022.wav,"The letter found in the pocket of the deceased was sealed with a wafer marked F,",LJ014-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0023.wav,"and many of the same sort were found in the possession of the accused. This was enough to obtain a committal,",LJ014-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0024.wav,"after several remands; but the case contained elements of doubt, and the evidence at the trial was entirely circumstantial.",LJ014-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0025.wav,"A witness deposed to meeting Hocker, soon after the cries of murder were heard,",LJ014-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0026.wav,"running at a dog-trot into London, and others swore that they plainly recognized him as the man seen soon afterwards in the lane.",LJ014-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0027.wav,"A woman whom he called on the same evening declared he had worn a mackintosh, his coat was much torn, there was a stain of blood on his shirt-cuff,",LJ014-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0028.wav,"and he was in possession, the first time to her knowledge, of a watch.",LJ014-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0029.wav,"This was Delarue's watch, fully identified as such, which Hocker told his brother Delarue had given him the morning of the murder.",LJ014-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0030.wav,These were damnatory facts which well supported the prosecution.,LJ014-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0031.wav,"The prisoner made an elaborate defense, in which he sought to vilify the character of deceased",LJ014-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0032.wav,as the seducer of an innocent girl to whom he (Hocker) had been fondly attached.,LJ014-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0033.wav,When her ruin was discovered her brother panted for revenge.,LJ014-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0034.wav,"Hocker, whose skill in counterfeiting handwriting was known, was asked to fabricate a letter making an assignation with Delarue",LJ014-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0035.wav,in a lonely part of Hampstead.,LJ014-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0036.wav,"Hocker and the brother went to the spot, where the latter left him to meet his sister's seducer alone.",LJ014-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0037.wav,"Soon afterwards Hocker heard cries of ""murder,""",LJ014-0037.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0038.wav,"and proceeding to where they came from, found Delarue dead, slain by the furious brother.",LJ014-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0039.wav,"Hocker was so overcome, feeling himself the principal cause of the tragedy,",LJ014-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0040.wav,that he rushed to a slaughterhouse in Hampstead and purposely stained his clothes with blood.,LJ014-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0041.wav,Such an extravagant defense did not weigh with judge or jury;,LJ014-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0042.wav,"the first summed up dead against the prisoner, and the latter, after retiring for ten minutes, found him guilty.",LJ014-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0043.wav,Hocker's conduct in Newgate while under sentence of death was most extraordinary.,LJ014-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0044.wav,"He drew up several long statements, containing narratives purely fictitious, imputing crimes to his victim, and repeating his line of defense",LJ014-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0045.wav,that Delarue had suffered by the hands of imaginary outraged brothers acting as the avengers of females deeply injured by him.,LJ014-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0046.wav,"Hocker made several pretended confessions and revelations, all of which were proved to be absolutely false by the police on inquiry.",LJ014-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0047.wav,"His demeanor was a strange compound of wickedness, falsehood, and deceit.",LJ014-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0048.wav,"But at the fatal hour his hardihood forsook him, and he was almost insensible when taken out of his cell for execution.",LJ014-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0049.wav,"Restoratives were applied, but he was in a fainting condition when tied, and had to be supported by the assistant executioner",LJ014-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0050.wav,while Calcraft adjusted the noose.,LJ014-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0051.wav,There was an epidemic of murder in the United Kingdom about 1848 to 9.,LJ014-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0052.wav,"In November of the first-named year occurred the wholesale slaughter of the Jermys in their house, Stanfield Hall, by the miscreant Rush.",LJ014-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0053.wav,"Soon afterwards, in Gloucestershire,",LJ014-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0054.wav,"a maidservant, Sarah Thomas, murdered her mistress, an aged woman, by beating out her brains with a stone.",LJ014-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0055.wav,"Next year John Gleeson Wilson, at Liverpool, murdered a woman, Ann Henrichson, also a maidservant and two children;",LJ014-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0056.wav,while in Ireland a wife dashed out her husband's brains with a hammer.,LJ014-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0057.wav,"London did not escape the contagion, and prominent among the detestable crimes of the period stands that of the Mannings at Bermondsey.",LJ014-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0058.wav,"These great criminals suffered at Horsemonger Lane Jail, but they were tried at the Central Criminal Court, and were for some time inmates of Newgate.",LJ014-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0059.wav,"Their victim was a man named Patrick O'Connor, a Custom-House gauger, who had been a suitor of Marie de Roux before she became Mrs. Manning.",LJ014-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0060.wav,"Marie de Roux up to the time of her marriage had been in service as lady's maid to Lady Blantyre, daughter of the Duchess of Sutherland,",LJ014-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0061.wav,and Manning hoped to get some small Government appointment through his wife's interest.,LJ014-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0062.wav,"He had failed in this as well as in the business of a publican, which he had at one time adopted.",LJ014-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0063.wav,After the marriage a close intimacy was still maintained between O'Connor and the Mannings.,LJ014-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0064.wav,"He lived at Mile End, whence he walked often to call at 3, Minver Place, Bermondsey, the residence of his old love.",LJ014-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0065.wav,"O'Connor was a man of substance. He had long followed the profitable trade of a money-lender,",LJ014-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0066.wav,"and by dint of usurious interest on small sums advanced to needy neighbors, had amassed as much as eight thousand pounds or ten thousand pounds.",LJ014-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0067.wav,"His wealth was well known to ""Maria,"" as he called Mrs. Manning, who made several ineffectual attempts to get money out of him.",LJ014-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0068.wav,At last this fiendish woman made up her mind to murder O'Connor and appropriate all his possessions.,LJ014-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0069.wav,"Her husband, to whom she coolly confided her intention,",LJ014-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0070.wav,"a heavy brutish fellow, was yet aghast at his wife's resolve, and tried hard to dissuade her from bad purpose.",LJ014-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0071.wav,"In his confession after sentence he declared that she plied him well with brandy at this period,",LJ014-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0072.wav,and that during the whole time he was never in his right senses.,LJ014-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0073.wav,"Meanwhile this woman, unflinching in her cold, bloody determination, carefully laid all her plans for the consummation of the deed.",LJ014-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0074.wav,"One fine afternoon in August, O'Connor was met walking in the direction of Bermondsey.",LJ014-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0075.wav,"He was dressed with particular care, as he was to dine at the Mannings and meet friends, one a young lady.",LJ014-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0076.wav,"He was seen afterwards smoking and talking with his hosts in their back parlor, and never seen again alive.",LJ014-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0077.wav,"It came out in the husband's confession that Mrs. Manning induced O'Connor to go down to the kitchen to wash his hands, that she followed him to the basement,",LJ014-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0078.wav,"that she stood behind him as he stood near the open grave she herself had dug for him,",LJ014-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0079.wav,"and which he mistook for a drain, and that while he was speaking to her she put the muzzle of a pistol close to the back of his head and shot him down.",LJ014-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0080.wav,"She ran upstairs, told her husband, made him go down to look at her handiwork, and as O'Connor was not quite dead,",LJ014-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0081.wav,Manning gave the coup de grace with a crowbar.,LJ014-0081.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0082.wav,"After this Mrs. Manning changed her dress and went off in a cab to O'Connor's lodgings,",LJ014-0082.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0083.wav,"which, having possessed herself of the murdered man's keys, she rifled from end to end.",LJ014-0083.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0084.wav,"Returning to her own home, where Manning meantime had been calmly smoking and talking to the neighbors over the basement wall,",LJ014-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0085.wav,"the corpse lying just inside the kitchen all the while, the two set to work to strip the body and hide it under the stones of the floor.",LJ014-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0086.wav,"This job was not completed till the following day, as the hole had to be enlarged, and the only tool they had was a dust-shovel.",LJ014-0086.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0087.wav,A quantity of quicklime was thrown in with the body to destroy all identification.,LJ014-0087.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0088.wav,This was on a Thursday evening.,LJ014-0088.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0089.wav,"For the remainder of that week and part of the next the murderers stayed in the house, and occupied the kitchen, close to the remains of their victim.",LJ014-0089.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0090.wav,"On the Sunday Mrs. Manning roasted a goose at this same kitchen fire, and ate it with relish in the afternoon.",LJ014-0090.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0091.wav,This cold-blooded indifference after the event was only outdone by the premeditation of this horrible murder.,LJ014-0091.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0092.wav,"The hole must have been excavated and the quicklime purchased quite three weeks before O'Connor met his death,",LJ014-0092.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0093.wav,and during that time he must frequently have stood or sat over his own grave.,LJ014-0093.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0094.wav,"Discovery of the murder came in this wise. O'Connor, a punctual and well-conducted official, was at once missed at the London Docks.",LJ014-0094.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0095.wav,"On the third day his friends began to inquire for him,",LJ014-0095.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0096.wav,"and at their request two police officers were sent to Bermondsey to inquire for him at the Mannings, with whom it was well known that he was very intimate.",LJ014-0096.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0097.wav,"The Mannings had seen or heard nothing of him, of course. As O'Connor still did not turn up, the police after a couple of days returned to Minver Place.",LJ014-0097.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0098.wav,"The house was empty, bare and stripped of all its furniture, and its former occupants had decamped.",LJ014-0098.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0099.wav,"The circumstance was suspicious, and a search was at once made of the whole premises.",LJ014-0099.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0100.wav,"In the back kitchen one of the detectives remarked that the cement between certain stones looked lighter than the rest, and on trying it with a knife,",LJ014-0100.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0101.wav,"he found that it was soft and new, while elsewhere it was set and hard.",LJ014-0101.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0102.wav,The stones were at once taken up;,LJ014-0102.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0103.wav,"beneath them was a layer of fresh mortar, beneath that a lot of loose earth, amongst which a stocking was turned up, and presently a human toe.",LJ014-0103.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0104.wav,Six inches lower the body of O'Connor was uncovered.,LJ014-0104.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0105.wav,"He was lying on his face, his legs tied up to his hips so as to allow of the body fitting into the hole.",LJ014-0105.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0106.wav,The lime had done its work so rapidly that the features would have been indistinguishable but for the prominent chin and a set of false teeth.,LJ014-0106.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0107.wav,"The corpse settled all doubts, and the next point was to lay hands upon the Mannings.",LJ014-0107.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0108.wav,It was soon ascertained that the wife had gone off in a cab with a quantity of luggage.,LJ014-0108.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0109.wav,"Part of this she had deposited to be left till called for at one station, while she had gone herself to another, that at Euston Square.",LJ014-0109.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0110.wav,"At the first the boxes were impounded, opened, and found to contain many of O'Connor's effects.",LJ014-0110.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0111.wav,At the second exact information was obtained of Mrs. Manning's movements. She had gone to Edinburgh.,LJ014-0111.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0112.wav,"A telegraphic message, then newly adapted to the purposes of criminal detection,",LJ014-0112.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0113.wav,"advised the Edinburgh police of the whole affair, and within an hour an answer was telegraphed, stating that Mrs. Manning was in custody.",LJ014-0113.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0114.wav,"She had been to brokers to negotiate the sale of certain foreign railway stock, with which they had been warned from London not to deal,",LJ014-0114.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0115.wav,and they had given information to the police.,LJ014-0115.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0116.wav,"Her arrest was planned, and, when the telegram arrived from London, completed.",LJ014-0116.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0117.wav,An examination of her boxes disclosed a quantity of O'Connor's property.,LJ014-0117.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0118.wav,"Mrs. Manning was transferred to London and lodged in the Horsemonger Lane Jail, where her husband soon afterwards joined her.",LJ014-0118.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0119.wav,"He had fled to Jersey, where he was recognized and arrested.",LJ014-0119.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0120.wav,"Each tried to throw the blame on the other; Manning declared his wife had committed the murder, Mrs. Manning indignantly denied the charge.",LJ014-0120.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0121.wav,"The prisoners were in due course transferred to Newgate, to be put upon their trial at the Central Criminal Court.",LJ014-0121.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0122.wav,A great number of distinguished people assembled as usual at the Old Bailey on the day of trial.,LJ014-0122.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0123.wav,"The Mannings were arraigned together; the husband standing at one of the front corners of the dock, his wife at the other end.",LJ014-0123.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0124.wav,"Manning, who was dressed in black, appeared to be a heavy, bull-necked, repulsive-looking man, with a very fair complexion and light hair.",LJ014-0124.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0125.wav,Mrs. Manning was not without personal charms;,LJ014-0125.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0126.wav,"her face was comely, she had dark hair and good eyes, and was above the middle height, yet inclined to be stout.",LJ014-0126.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0127.wav,"She was smartly dressed in a plaid shawl, a white lace cap;",LJ014-0127.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0128.wav,"her hair was dressed in long crepe bands. She had lace ruffles at her wrist, and wore primrose-colored kid gloves.",LJ014-0128.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0129.wav,"The case rested upon the facts which have been already set forth, and was proved to the satisfaction of the jury, who brought in a verdict of guilty.",LJ014-0129.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0130.wav,"Manning, when sentence of death was passed on him, said nothing;",LJ014-0130.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0131.wav,"but Mrs. Manning, speaking in a foreign accent, addressed the court with great fluency and vehemence.",LJ014-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0132.wav,"She complained that she had no justice; there was no law for her, she had found no protection either from judges, the prosecutor, or her husband.",LJ014-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0133.wav,"She had not been treated like a Christian, but like a wild beast of the forest. She declared that the money found in her possession had been sent her from abroad;",LJ014-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0134.wav,"that O'Connor had been more to her than her husband, that she ought to have married him.",LJ014-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0135.wav,It was against common sense to charge her with murdering the only friend she had in the world;,LJ014-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0136.wav,"the culprit was really her husband, who killed O'Connor out of jealousy and revengeful feelings.",LJ014-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0137.wav,When the judge assumed the black cap,LJ014-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0138.wav,"Mrs. Manning became still more violent, shouting, ""No, no, I will not stand it! You ought to be ashamed of yourselves!""",LJ014-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0139.wav,"and would have left the dock had not Mr. Cope, the governor of Newgate, restrained her.",LJ014-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0140.wav,After judgment was passed she repeatedly cried out Shame!,LJ014-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0141.wav,"and stretching out her hand, she gathered up a quantity of the rue which, following ancient custom dating from the days of the jail fever,",LJ014-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0142.wav,"was strewn in front of the dock, and sprinkled it towards the bench with a contemptuous gesture.",LJ014-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0143.wav,On being removed to Newgate from the court Mrs. Manning became perfectly furious.,LJ014-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0144.wav,"She uttered loud imprecations, cursing judge, jury, barristers, witnesses, and all who stood around.",LJ014-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0146.wav,"They had to handcuff her by force against the most violent resistance, and still she raged and stormed,",LJ014-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0147.wav,shaking her clenched and manacled hands in the officers' faces.,LJ014-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0148.wav,From Newgate the Mannings were taken in separate cabs to Horsemonger Lane Jail.,LJ014-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0149.wav,"On this journey her manner changed completely. She became flippant, joked with the officers, asked how they liked her ""resolution"" in the dock,",LJ014-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0150.wav,"and expressed the utmost contempt for her husband, whom she never intended to acknowledge or speak to again.",LJ014-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0151.wav,Later her mood changed to abject despair.,LJ014-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0152.wav,On reaching the condemned cell she threw herself upon the floor and shrieked in an hysterical agony of tears.,LJ014-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0153.wav,"After this, until the day of execution, she recovered her spirits, and displayed reckless effrontery,",LJ014-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0154.wav,"mocking at the chaplain, and turning a deaf ear to the counsels of a benevolent lady who came to visit.",LJ014-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0155.wav,"Now she abused the jury, now called Manning a vagabond,",LJ014-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0156.wav,"and through all ate heartily at every meal, slept soundly at nights, and talked with cheerfulness on almost any subject.",LJ014-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0157.wav,"Nevertheless, she attempted to commit suicide by driving her nails, purposely left long, into her throat.",LJ014-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0158.wav,She was discovered just as she was getting black in the face.,LJ014-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0159.wav,"Manning's demeanor was more in harmony with his situation, and the full confession he made",LJ014-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0160.wav,elucidated all dark and uncertain points in connection with the crime.,LJ014-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0161.wav,"The actual execution, which took place at another prison than Newgate, is rather beyond the scope of this work.",LJ014-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0162.wav,"But it may be mentioned that the concourse was so enormous that it drew down the well-merited and trenchant disapproval of Charles Dickens,",LJ014-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0163.wav,"who wrote to the 'Times,' saying that he believed ""a sight so inconceivably awful",LJ014-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0164.wav,"as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at the execution this morning could be imagined by no man,",LJ014-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0165.wav,and presented by no heathen land under the sun.,LJ014-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0166.wav,"faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks, and language of the assembled spectators.",LJ014-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0167.wav,"When I came upon the scene at midnight, the shrillness of the cries and howls that were raised from time to time,",LJ014-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0168.wav,"denoting that they came from a concourse of boys and girls already assembled in the best places, made my blood run cold.",LJ014-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0169.wav,"It will be in the memory of many that Mrs. Manning appeared on the scaffold in a black satin dress, which was bound tightly round her waist.",LJ014-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0170.wav,"This preference brought the costly stuff into disrepute, and its unpopularity lasted for nearly thirty years.",LJ014-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0171.wav,"I will briefly describe one or two of the more remarkable murders in the years immediately following, then pass on to another branch of crime.",LJ014-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0172.wav,Robert Marley at the time of his arrest called himself a surgical instrument maker.,LJ014-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0173.wav,"It was understood also that he had served in the army as a private, and had, moreover, undergone a sentence of transportation.",LJ014-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0174.wav,"But it was supposed that he had been once in a good position, well born, and well educated.",LJ014-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0175.wav,"When lying under sentence of death in Newgate, he was visited by a lady, a gentlewoman in every sense of the word, who was said to be his sister.",LJ014-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0176.wav,"His determined addiction to evil courses had led to his being cast off by his family,",LJ014-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0177.wav,and he must have been at the end of his resources when he committed the crime for which he suffered.,LJ014-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0178.wav,"His offense was the murder of Richard Cope,",LJ014-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0179.wav,"a working jeweler, shopman to a Mr. Berry of Parliament Street. It was Cope's duty to stay in the shop till the last, close the shutters,",LJ014-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0180.wav,"secure the stock of watches and jewelry, then lock up the place and take on the keys to Mr. Berry's private house in Pimlico.",LJ014-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0181.wav,"Cope, a small man, crippled, and of weakly constitution, was alone in the shop about 9:30.",LJ014-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0182.wav,"the shutters were up, and he was preparing to close, when Marley entered and fell upon him with a life-preserver,",LJ014-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0183.wav,meaning to kill him and rifle the shop.,LJ014-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0184.wav,"The noise of the struggle was heard outside in the street,",LJ014-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0185.wav,"and bystanders peeped in through the shutters, but no one entered or sought to interfere in what seemed only a domestic quarrel.",LJ014-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0186.wav,"A milliner's porter,",LJ014-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0187.wav,"Lerigo, was also attracted by the noise of the row, but after walking a few paces he felt dissatisfied, and returned to the spot.",LJ014-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0188.wav,"Pushing the shop-door open, he saw Marley finishing his murderous assault.",LJ014-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0189.wav,Lerigo turned for assistance to take the man into custody.,LJ014-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0190.wav,"Marley, disturbed, picked up a cigar and parcel from the counter, then ran out, pursued by Lerigo only.",LJ014-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0191.wav,"Marley ran along the street, down into Cannon Row",LJ014-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0192.wav,"then into Palace Yard, where the waterman of the cab-tank, in obedience to Lerigo's shouts, collared the fugitive.",LJ014-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0193.wav,"Escorted by his two captors, Marley was taken back into Parliament Street to the jeweler's shop.",LJ014-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0194.wav,The policemen were now in possession;,LJ014-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0195.wav,"two of them supported Cope, who was still alive, although insensible, and Marley was apprehended. The evidence against him was completed",LJ014-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0196.wav,"by his identification by Cope in Westminster Hospital, who survived long enough to make a formal deposition before Mr. Jardine,",LJ014-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0197.wav,"the police magistrate, that Marley was the man who had beaten him to death.",LJ014-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0198.wav,"Marley at his trial was undefended, and the sheriffs offered him counsel; but he declined. The witnesses against him all spoke the truth, he said;",LJ014-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0199.wav,there was no case to make out; why waste money on lawyers for the defense? His demeanor was cool and collected throughout;,LJ014-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0200.wav,"he seemed while in Newgate to realize thoroughly that there was no hope for him, and was determined to face his fate bravely.",LJ014-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0201.wav,"After sentence, the Newgate officers who had special charge of him noticed that he slept well and ate well, enjoying all his meals.",LJ014-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0202.wav,One of them went into his cell just at dinner-time;,LJ014-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0203.wav,"the great clock of St. Sepulchre's close by was striking the hour, and Marley, who had his elbows on the table,",LJ014-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0204.wav,"with his head resting on his hands, looked up and observed calmly, ""Go along, clock; come along, gallows.""",LJ014-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0205.wav,"On the dread morning he came out to execution quite gaily, and tripped up the stairs to the scaffold.",LJ014-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0206.wav,"His captors, it may be added (Lerigo and Allen), were warmly commended by the judge for their courage and activity.",LJ014-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0207.wav,The former was given a reward of twenty and the latter of ten pounds.,LJ014-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0208.wav,"A murderous assault on a police constable, which so nearly ended fatally that the culprit was sentenced to death, although not executed,",LJ014-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0209.wav,was perpetrated in 1852. The case was accompanied with the most shocking brutality.,LJ014-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0210.wav,"Cannon, by trade a chimney-sweep, had long been characterized by the bitterest hatred of the police force,",LJ014-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0211.wav,"and had been repeatedly sentenced to imprisonment for most desperate and ferocious attacks upon various constables. His last victim was Dwyer,",LJ014-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0212.wav,a fine young officer who had been summoned to take Cannon into custody when the latter was drunk and riotous in front of a public-house.,LJ014-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0213.wav,"Dwyer found Cannon bleeding profusely from a wound in the head, and persuaded him to go to a doctor's.",LJ014-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0214.wav,"They walked together quietly for some little distance, then Cannon, without the slightest warning,",LJ014-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0215.wav,"threw the constable on his back, and violently assaulted him by jumping on his chest and stomach,",LJ014-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0216.wav,"and by getting his hand inside Dwyer's stock, with the idea of strangling him.",LJ014-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0217.wav,"Dwyer managed to overpower his assailant, and got to his feet; but Cannon butted at him with his head, and again threw him to the ground,",LJ014-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0218.wav,"after which he kicked his prostrate foe in the most brutal and cowardly manner, and until he was almost senseless, and bruised from head to foot.",LJ014-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0219.wav,"Once more Dwyer got to his feet, and managed, by drawing his staff, to keep Cannon at bay until a second constable came to his aid.",LJ014-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0220.wav,All this time not one of a numerous body of bystanders offered to assist the policeman in his extremity.,LJ014-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0221.wav,"On the contrary, many of them encouraged the brutal assailant in his savage attack.",LJ014-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0222.wav,"To Cannon's infinite surprise, he was indicted for attempt to murder, and not for a simple assault, and found guilty.",LJ014-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0223.wav,"The judge, in passing sentence of death, told him he richly deserved the punishment.",LJ014-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0224.wav,"As Dwyer survived, Cannon escaped the death sentence, which was commuted to penal servitude for life.",LJ014-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0225.wav,"A handsome sum was subscribed for the injured constable, who was disabled for life.",LJ014-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0226.wav,Only a few have vied with Cannon in fiendish cruelty and brutality.,LJ014-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0227.wav,"One of these was Mobbs, who lived in the Minories,",LJ014-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0228.wav,"generally known by the soubriquet of ""General Haynau,"" a name execrated in England about this time.",LJ014-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0229.wav,"Mobbs systematically ill-used his wife for a long space of time, and at last cut her throat.",LJ014-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0230.wav,For this he was executed in front of Newgate in 1833.,LJ014-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0231.wav,"Emmanuel Barthelemy again,",LJ014-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0232.wav,"the French refugee, was a murderer of the same description, who dispatched his victim with a loaded cane, after which, to secure his escape,",LJ014-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0233.wav,he shot an old soldier who had attempted to detain him. He was convicted and executed.,LJ014-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0234.wav,"He died impenitent, declaring that he had no belief, and that it was idle to ask forgiveness of God.",LJ014-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0235.wav,I want forgiveness of man; I want those doors (of the prison) opened.,LJ014-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0236.wav,Barthelemy was generally supposed to have been a secret agent of the French police.,LJ014-0236.wav | |