| audio,transcription,file_name | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0237.wav,I will now pass to grave but less atrocious crimes.,LJ014-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0238.wav,"In 1850 occurred the first of a series of gigantic frauds,",LJ014-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0239.wav,"which followed each other at no long intervals, which had a strong family likeness, and originated all of them to make money easily,",LJ014-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0240.wav,"without capital, and at railroad speed.",LJ014-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0241.wav,"Walter Watts was an inventor, a creator, who struck an entirely new and original line of crime.",LJ014-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0242.wav,"Employed as a clerk in the Globe Assurance,",LJ014-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0243.wav,"he with unusual quickness of apprehension discovered and promptly turned to account an inexcusably lax system of management,",LJ014-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0244.wav,which offered peculiar chances of profit to an ingenious and unscrupulous man.,LJ014-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0245.wav,It was the custom in this office to make the banker's passbook the basis of the entries in the company's ledgers.,LJ014-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0246.wav,"Thus, when a payment was made by the company, the amount disbursed was carried to account in the general books from its entry in the passbook,",LJ014-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0247.wav,and without reference to or comparison with the documents in which the payment was claimed.,LJ014-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0248.wav,"This passbook, when not at the bank, was in the exclusive custody of Watts.",LJ014-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0249.wav,"The cheques drawn by the directors also passed through his hands; to him too they came back to be verified and put by,",LJ014-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0250.wav,after they had been cashed by the bank.,LJ014-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0251.wav,In this way Watts had complete control over the whole of the monetary transactions of the company.,LJ014-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0252.wav,"He could do what he liked with the passbook, and by its adoption, as described as the basis of all entries,",LJ014-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0253.wav,there was no independent check upon him if he chose to tamper with it.,LJ014-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0254.wav,"This he did to an enormous extent,",LJ014-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0255.wav,"continually altering, erasing, and adding figures to correspond with and cover the abstractions he made of various cheques as they were drawn.",LJ014-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0256.wav,"It seems incredible that this passbook, which when produced in court",LJ014-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0257.wav,"was a mass of blots and erasures, should not have created suspicion of foul play either at the bank or at the company's board.",LJ014-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0258.wav,"Implicit confidence appears to have been placed in Watts, who was the son of an old and trusted employee, and, moreover, a young man of plausible address.",LJ014-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0259.wav,Watts led two lives.,LJ014-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0260.wav,"In the West End he was a man of fashion, with a town house, a house at Brighton, and a cellar full of good wine at both.",LJ014-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0261.wav,"He rode a priceless hack in Rotten Row, or drove down to Richmond in a mail phaeton and pair.",LJ014-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0262.wav,"He played high, and spent his nights at the club, or in joyous and dissolute company.",LJ014-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0263.wav,"When other pleasures palled he took a theatre, and posed as a munificent patron of the dramatic art.",LJ014-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0264.wav,"Under his auspices several ""stars"" appeared on the boards of the Marylebone theatre,",LJ014-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0265.wav,and later he became manager of the newly rebuilt Olympic at Wych Street.,LJ014-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0266.wav,"No one cared too closely to inquire into the sources of wealth. Some said he was a fortunate speculator in stocks,",LJ014-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0267.wav,"others that he had had extraordinary luck as a gold-digger. Had his West End and little-informed associates followed him into the city,",LJ014-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0268.wav,"whither he was taken every morning in a smart brougham, they would have seen him alight from it in Cornhill,",LJ014-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0269.wav,and walk forward on foot to enter as a humble and unpretending employee the doors of the Globe Assurance office.,LJ014-0269.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0271.wav,"Nevertheless, in this position, through the culpable carelessness which left him unfettered, he managed between 1844",LJ014-0271.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0272.wav,"and 1850 to embezzle and apply to his own purposes some £71,000.",LJ014-0272.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0273.wav,The detection of these frauds came while he was still prominently before the world as the lessee of the Olympic.,LJ014-0273.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0274.wav,"Rumors were abroad that serious defalcations had been discovered in one of the insurance offices,",LJ014-0274.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0275.wav,but it was long before the public realized that the fraudulent clerk and the great theatrical manager were one and the same person.,LJ014-0275.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0276.wav,"Watts's crime was discovered by the secretary of the Globe Company, who came suddenly upon the extensive falsification of the passbook.",LJ014-0276.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0277.wav,"An inquiry was at once set on foot, and the frauds were traced to Watts.",LJ014-0277.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0278.wav,"The latter, when first taxed with his offense, protested his innocence boldly, and positively denied all knowledge of the affair;",LJ014-0278.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0279.wav,and he had so cleverly destroyed all traces that it was not easy to bring home the charge.,LJ014-0279.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0280.wav,"But it was proved that Watts had appropriated one cheque for £1400,",LJ014-0280.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0281.wav,"which he had paid into his own bankers, and on this he was committed to Newgate for trial.",LJ014-0281.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0282.wav,"There were two counts in the indictment: one for stealing a cheque value £1400, the second for stealing a bit of paper value one penny.",LJ014-0282.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0283.wav,"The jury found him guilty of the latter only, with a point of law reserved. This was fully argued before three judges,",LJ014-0283.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0285.wav,and not for the slight offense as it appeared on the record.,LJ014-0285.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0286.wav,"The sentence of the court, one of ten years' transportation, struck the prisoner with dismay.",LJ014-0286.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0287.wav,"He had been led to suppose that twelve months' imprisonment was the utmost the law could inflict, and he broke down utterly under the unexpected blow.",LJ014-0287.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0288.wav,That same evening he committed suicide in Newgate.,LJ014-0288.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0289.wav,The details of the suicide were given at the inquest. Watts had been in ill-health from the time of his first arrest.,LJ014-0289.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0290.wav,"In Giltspur Street Compter, where he was first lodged",LJ014-0290.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0291.wav,"he showed symptoms of delirium tremens, and admitted that he had been addicted to the excessive use of stimulants.",LJ014-0291.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0292.wav,"His health improved, but was still indifferent when he was brought up for sentence, and he was an occupant of the Newgate infirmary.",LJ014-0292.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0293.wav,"He returned from court in a state of gloomy dejection,",LJ014-0293.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0294.wav,and in the middle of the night one of the fellow-prisoners who slept in the same ward noticed that he was not in his bed.,LJ014-0294.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0295.wav,"This man got up to look for him, and found him hanging from the bars of a neighboring room.",LJ014-0295.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0296.wav,"He had made use of a piece of rope cut out from the sacking of his bedstead, and had tied his feet together with a silk pocket-handkerchief.",LJ014-0296.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0297.wav,"The prison officers were called, but Watts was quite cold and stiff when he was cut down.",LJ014-0297.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0298.wav,"Strange to say, a second suicide occurred in Newgate the same night,",LJ014-0298.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0299.wav,"that of a prize-fighter named Donovan, tried the same day, and convicted of manslaughter.",LJ014-0299.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0300.wav,"Sentence of death had been recorded against Donovan, who, like Watts, had seemingly been overcome with sudden despair.",LJ014-0300.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0301.wav,In 1853 a second case of gigantic fraud alarmed and scandalized the financial world.,LJ014-0301.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0302.wav,It outshone the defalcations of Watts.,LJ014-0302.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0303.wav,Nothing to equal the excitement caused by the forgeries of Robert Ferdinand Pries had been known before in the city of London.,LJ014-0303.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0304.wav,He was a corn merchant who operated largely in grain.,LJ014-0304.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0305.wav,"So enormous were his transactions, that they often affected the markets, and caused great fluctuations in prices.",LJ014-0305.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0306.wav,"These had been attributed to political action; some thought that the large purchases in foreign grains, effected at losing prices,",LJ014-0306.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0307.wav,"were intended by the protectionists to depress the wheat market, and secure the support of the farmers at the forthcoming election;",LJ014-0307.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0308.wav,"others, that Napoleon III., but recently proclaimed Emperor of the French, wished to gain the popularity necessary to secure the people.",LJ014-0308.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0309.wav,"Few realized that these mysterious operations were the ""convulsive attempt"" of a ruined and dishonest speculator to sustain his credit.",LJ014-0309.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0310.wav,"Pries, although enjoying a high reputation in the city, had long been in a bad way.",LJ014-0310.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0311.wav,His extensive business had been carried on by fraud.,LJ014-0311.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0312.wav,His method was to obtain advances twice over on the same bills of lading or corn warrants. The duplicates were forged.,LJ014-0312.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0313.wav,"In this way he obtained vast sums from several firms, and one to which he was indebted upwards of £50,000 subsequently stopped payment.",LJ014-0313.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0314.wav,Pries at length was discovered,LJ014-0314.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0315.wav,"through a dishonored cheque for £3000, paid over as an installment of £18,000 owing for an advance on warrants.",LJ014-0315.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0316.wav,"Inquiries were instituted when the cheque was protested, which led to the discovery of the forgeries.",LJ014-0316.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0317.wav,"Pries was lodged in Newgate, tried at the Old Bailey, and transported for life.",LJ014-0317.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0318.wav,"Another set of frauds, which resembled those of Pries in principle, although not in practice, were soon afterwards discovered.",LJ014-0318.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0320.wav,proposed to gain the capital he needed for business purposes by raising money on dock warrants for imported goods which had no real existence.,LJ014-0320.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0321.wav,"When such goods arrived they were frequently left at a wharf, paying rent until it suited the importer to remove them.",LJ014-0321.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0322.wav,The dock warrant was issued by the wharfinger as certificate that he held the goods.,LJ014-0322.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0323.wav,"The warrant thus represented money, and was often used as such, being endorsed and passed from hand to hand as other negotiable bills.",LJ014-0323.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0324.wav,"Cole's plan was to have a wharf of his own, nominally occupied by a creature trading as Maltby and Co.",LJ014-0324.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0325.wav,Goods would be landed at this wharf;,LJ014-0325.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0326.wav,"Maltby and Co. would issue warrants on them deliverable to the importer, and the goods were then passed to be stored in neighboring warehouses.",LJ014-0326.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0327.wav,"The owners of the latter would then issue a second set of warrants on these goods, in total ignorance of the fact that they were already pledged.",LJ014-0327.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0328.wav,"Cole quickly raised money on both sets of warrants. He carried on this game for some time with great success,",LJ014-0328.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0329.wav,and so developed his business that in one year his transactions amounted to a couple of millions of pounds.,LJ014-0329.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0330.wav,He had several narrow escapes.,LJ014-0330.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0331.wav,"Once a warrant-holder sent down a clerk to view certain goods, and the clerk found that these goods had already a ""stop"" upon them, or were pledged.",LJ014-0331.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0332.wav,"Cole escaped by throwing the blame on a careless partner, and at once removed the ""stop.""",LJ014-0332.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0333.wav,"Again, some of the duplicate and fictitious warrants were held by a firm which suspended payment, and there was no knowing into whose hands they might fall.",LJ014-0333.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0334.wav,"Cole found out where they were, and redeemed them at a heavy outlay, thus obtaining business relations with the firm that held them,",LJ014-0334.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0335.wav,"which were soon developed, much to that firm's subsequent anger and regret.",LJ014-0335.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0336.wav,"Last of all, the well-known bankers Overend and Gurney, whose own affairs created much excitement some years later,",LJ014-0336.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0337.wav,"wishing to verify the value of warrants they held, and sending to Maltby and Co.'s wharf, found out half the truth.",LJ014-0337.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0338.wav,"These bankers, wishing for more specific information,",LJ014-0338.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0339.wav,"asked Davidson and Gordon, a firm with which Cole was closely allied, whether the warrants meant goods or nothing.",LJ014-0339.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ014-0340.wav,"They could not deny that the latter was the truth, and were forthwith stigmatized by Mr. Chapman, Overend and Gurney's representative, as rogues.",LJ014-0340.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0001.wav,"Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 18: Newgate notorieties continued, part 3.",LJ015-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0002.wav,"The course of the swindlers was by no means smooth, but it was not till 1854 that suspicion arose that anything was wrong.",LJ015-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0003.wav,A firm which held a lot of warrants suddenly demanded the delivery of the goods they covered.,LJ015-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0004.wav,"The goods having no existence, Cole of course could not deliver them.",LJ015-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0005.wav,"About this time Davidson and Gordon, the people above-mentioned,",LJ015-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0006.wav,"who had fraudulent warrants out of their own to the extent of £150,000, suspended payment and absconded.",LJ015-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0007.wav,"This affected Cole's credit, and ugly reports were in circulation charging him with the issue of simulated warrants.",LJ015-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0008.wav,"These indeed were out to the value of £367,800.",LJ015-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0009.wav,Cole's difficulties increased more and more; warrant-holders came down upon him demanding to realize their goods.,LJ015-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0010.wav,Cole now suspended payment.,LJ015-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0011.wav,"Maltby, who had bolted, was pursued and arrested, to end his life miserably by committing suicide in a Newgate cell.",LJ015-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0012.wav,"Cole too was apprehended, and in due course tried at the Central Criminal Court.",LJ015-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0013.wav,"He was found guilty, and sentenced to the seemingly inadequate punishment of four years' transportation.",LJ015-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0014.wav,Davidson and Gordon were also sentenced to imprisonment.,LJ015-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0015.wav,A more distressing case stands next on the criminal records --,LJ015-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0016.wav,"the failure and subsequent sentence of the bankers Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Bates,",LJ015-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0017.wav,"for the fraudulent disposal of securities lodged in their hands. This firm was one of the oldest banking establishments in the kingdom,",LJ015-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0018.wav,"and dated back to the Commonwealth, when, under the title of Snow and Walton, it carried on business as pawnbrokers.",LJ015-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0019.wav,"The Strahan of the firm which came to grief was a Snow who changed his name for a fortune of £200,000;",LJ015-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0020.wav,"he was a man esteemed and respected in society and the world of finance, incapable as it was thought of a dishonest deed.",LJ015-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0021.wav,"Sir John Dean Paul had inherited a baronetcy from his father, together with an honored name;",LJ015-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0022.wav,"he was himself a prominent member of the Low Church, of austere piety, active in all good works.",LJ015-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0023.wav,"Mr. Bates had been confidential managing clerk, and was taken into the firm not alone as a reward for long and faithful service",LJ015-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0024.wav,but that he might strengthen it by his long experience and known business capacity.,LJ015-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0025.wav,"The bank enjoyed an excellent reputation, it had a good connection, and was supposed to be perfectly sound.",LJ015-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0026.wav,"Moreover, the partners were sober, steady men, who paid unremitting attention to business.",LJ015-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0027.wav,"Yet even so early as the death of the first Sir John Paul,",LJ015-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0028.wav,"the bank was insolvent, and instead of starting on a fresh life with a new name, it should then and there have closed its doors.",LJ015-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0029.wav,"In December 1851 the balance sheet showed a deficiency of upwards of £70,000.",LJ015-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0030.wav,The bank had been conducted on false principles;,LJ015-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0031.wav,"it had assumed enormous responsibilities -- on one side by the ownership of the Mostyn collieries, a valueless property,",LJ015-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0032.wav,and on the other by backing up,LJ015-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0033.wav,an impecunious and rotten firm of contractors with vast liabilities and pledged to impossible works abroad.,LJ015-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0034.wav,"The engagements of the bank on these two heads amounting to nearly half a million of money,",LJ015-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0035.wav,produced immediate embarrassment and financial distress.,LJ015-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0036.wav,"The bank was already insolvent,",LJ015-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0037.wav,and the partners had to decide between suspending payment or continuing to hold its head above water by flagitious processes.,LJ015-0037.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0038.wav,"They chose, unhappily for themselves, the latter alternative.",LJ015-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0039.wav,"Money they must have, and money they raised to meet their urgent necessities upon the balances and securities deposited with them by their customers.",LJ015-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0040.wav,"This borrowing continued, and on such a scale that their paper was soon at a discount,",LJ015-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0041.wav,and the various discount houses would not advance sufficient sums to relieve the necessities of the bank.,LJ015-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0042.wav,"Then it was that instead of merely pledging securities, the bank sold them outright, and thus passed the Rubicon of fraud.",LJ015-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0043.wav,"This went on for some time, and might never have been discovered had some good stroke of luck provided any of the partners",LJ015-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0044.wav,with money enough to retrieve the position of the bank. But that passed from bad to worse;,LJ015-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0045.wav,"the firm's paper went down further and further in value; an application to the Committee of Bankers for assistance was peremptorily refused,",LJ015-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0046.wav,"then came a run on the bank, and it was compelled to stop payment.",LJ015-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0047.wav,"Its debts amounted to three-quarters of a million, and the dividend it eventually paid was three and twopence in the pound.",LJ015-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0048.wav,But worse than the bankruptcy was the confession made by the partners in the court.,LJ015-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0049.wav,They admitted that they had made away with many of the securities entrusted to their keeping.,LJ015-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0050.wav,"Following this, warrants were issued for their arrest,",LJ015-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0051.wav,the specific charge being the unlawful negotiation of Danish bonds and other shares belonging to the Rev. Dr. Griffiths of Rochester,LJ015-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0052.wav,"to the value of £20,000.",LJ015-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0053.wav,"Bates was at once captured in Norfolk Street, Strand.",LJ015-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0054.wav,"Police officers went down at night to Nutfield, near Reigate, and arrested Sir John Paul, but allowed the prisoner to sleep there.",LJ015-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0055.wav,"Next morning they only just saved the train to town, and left Sir John behind on the platform, but he subsequently surrendered himself.",LJ015-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0056.wav,Mr. Strahan was arrested at a friend's house in Bryanston Square.,LJ015-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0057.wav,"All three were tried at the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation, passing some time in Newgate en route.",LJ015-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0058.wav,"Bates, the least guilty, was pardoned in 1858.",LJ015-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0059.wav,"Two cases of extensive embezzlement which were discovered almost simultaneously, those of Robson and Redpath,",LJ015-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0060.wav,will long be remembered both within and without the commercial world.,LJ015-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0061.wav,"They both reproduced many of the features of the case of Watts, already described,",LJ015-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0062.wav,but in neither did the sums misappropriated reach quite the same high figure.,LJ015-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0063.wav,"But neither Robson nor Redpath would have been able to pursue their fraudulent designs with success had they not, like Watts,",LJ015-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0064.wav,been afforded peculiar facilities by the slackness of system and the want of methodical administration in the concerns by which they were employed.,LJ015-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0065.wav,"Robson was of humble origin, but he was well educated, and he had some literary abilities.",LJ015-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0066.wav,"His proclivities were theatrical, and he was the author of several plays,",LJ015-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0067.wav,"one at least of which, 'Love and Loyalty,' with Wallack in a leading part, achieved a certain success.",LJ015-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0068.wav,"He began life as a law-writer, earning thereby some fifteen or eighteen shillings a week;",LJ015-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0069.wav,"but the firm he served got him a situation as clerk in the office of the Great Northern Railway,",LJ015-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0070.wav,whence he passed to a better position under the Crystal Palace Company.,LJ015-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0071.wav,"He now married, although his salary was only a pound a week; but he soon got on.",LJ015-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0072.wav,"He had a pleasant address, showed good business aptitudes, and quickly acquired the approval of his superiors.",LJ015-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0073.wav,"Within a year he was advanced to the post of chief clerk in the transfer department, at a salary of £150 a year.",LJ015-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0074.wav,"His immediate chief was a Mr. Fasson, upon whose confidence he gained so rapidly, through his activity, industry, and engaging manners,",LJ015-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0075.wav,that ere long the whole management of the transfer department was entrusted to him.,LJ015-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0076.wav,Some time elapsed before Robson succumbed to temptation.,LJ015-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0077.wav,He was not the first man of loose morality and expensive tastes,LJ015-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0078.wav,who preferred to risk his future reputation and liberty to the present discomfort of living upon narrow means.,LJ015-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0079.wav,The temptation was all the greater because the chances of successful fraud lay ready to hand.,LJ015-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0080.wav,"Shares in the company were represented by certificates, which often enough never left the company's, or more exactly Robson's, hands.",LJ015-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0081.wav,"He conceived the idea of transferring shares, bogus shares from a person who held none, to any one who would buy them in the open market.",LJ015-0081.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0082.wav,"He took it for granted that the certificates representing these bogus shares, and which practically did not exist, would never be called for.",LJ015-0082.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0083.wav,"This ingenious method of raising funds he adopted and carried on without detection,",LJ015-0083.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0084.wav,"till the defalcations from fraudulent transfers and fraudulent issues combined amounted to £27,000.",LJ015-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0085.wav,With the proceeds of these flagitious frauds Robson feasted and made merry.,LJ015-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0086.wav,He kept open house at Kilburn Priory;,LJ015-0086.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0087.wav,"entertained literary, artistic, and dramatic celebrities; had a smart ""turn out,"" attended all the race-meetings, and dressed in the latest fashion.",LJ015-0087.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0088.wav,"To his wife, poor soul, he made no pretense of fidelity, and she enjoyed only so much of his company as was necessarily spent",LJ015-0088.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0089.wav,"in receiving guests at home, or could be spared from two rival establishments in other parts of the town.",LJ015-0089.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0090.wav,"To account for his revenues he pretended to have been very lucky on the Stock Exchange, which was at one time true to a limited extent,",LJ015-0090.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0091.wav,and to have succeeded in other speculations.,LJ015-0091.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0092.wav,"When his friends asked why he, a wealthy man of independent means, continued to slave on as a clerk on a pittance,",LJ015-0092.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0093.wav,"he replied gaily that his regular work at the Crystal Palace office was useful as a sort of discipline, and kept him steady.",LJ015-0093.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0094.wav,All this time his position was one of extreme insecurity. He was standing over a mine which at any moment might explode.,LJ015-0094.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0095.wav,"The blow fell suddenly, and when least expected. One morning Mr. Fasson asked casually for certain certificates,",LJ015-0095.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0096.wav,whether representing real or fictitious shares does not appear; but they were certificates connected in some way with Robson's long practiced frauds,LJ015-0096.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0097.wav,and he could not produce them. His chief asked sternly where they were.,LJ015-0097.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0098.wav,Robson said they were at Kilburn Priory.,LJ015-0098.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0099.wav,"Let us go to Kilburn for them together, said Mr. Fasson, growing suspicious.",LJ015-0099.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0100.wav,"They drove there, and Robson on arrival did the honors of his house, rang for lunch to gain time,",LJ015-0100.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0101.wav,but at Mr. Fasson's pressing demands went upstairs to fetch the certificates.,LJ015-0101.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0102.wav,He came back to explain that he had mislaid them.,LJ015-0102.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0103.wav,"Mr. Fasson, more and more ill at ease, would not accept this subterfuge, and declared they must be found.",LJ015-0103.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0104.wav,"Robson again left him, but only to gather together hastily all the money and valuables on which he could lay his hands, with which he left the house.",LJ015-0104.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0105.wav,"Mr. Fasson waited and waited for his subordinate to re-appear, and at last discovered his flight.",LJ015-0105.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0106.wav,A reward was forthwith offered for Robson's apprehension.,LJ015-0106.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0107.wav,"Meanwhile the absconding clerk had coolly driven to a favorite dining-place in the West End,",LJ015-0107.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0108.wav,"where a fish curry and a brace of partridges were set before him,",LJ015-0108.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0109.wav,"and he discussed the latter with appetite, but begged that they would never give him curry again, as he did not like it.",LJ015-0109.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0110.wav,"After dinner he went into hiding for a day or two,",LJ015-0110.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0111.wav,"then, accompanied by a lady, not Mrs. Robson, he took steamer and started for Copenhagen.",LJ015-0111.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0112.wav,"But the continental police had been warned to look out for him, and two Danish inspectors got upon his track,",LJ015-0112.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0113.wav,"followed him over to Sweden, and arrested him at Helsingfors.",LJ015-0113.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0114.wav,Thence he was transferred to Copenhagen and surrendered in due course to a London police officer.,LJ015-0114.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0115.wav,"Little more remains to be said about Robson. He appears to have accepted his position, and to have at once resigned himself to his fate.",LJ015-0115.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0116.wav,"When brought to trial he took matters very coolly, and at first pleaded ""Not Guilty,"" but subsequently withdrew the plea.",LJ015-0116.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0117.wav,"Sergeant Ballantine, who prosecuted,",LJ015-0117.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0118.wav,"paid him the compliment of describing him as ""a young man of great intelligence, considerable powers of mind,",LJ015-0118.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0119.wav,"and possessed of an education very much beyond the rank of life to which he originally belonged.""",LJ015-0119.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0120.wav,"Robson was found guilty, and sentenced to two terms of transportation, one for twenty and one for fourteen years.",LJ015-0120.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0121.wav,"Newgate officers who remember Robson still describe him as a fine young man, who behaved well as a prisoner,",LJ015-0121.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0122.wav,"but who had all the appearance of a careless, thoughtless, happy-go-lucky fellow.",LJ015-0122.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0123.wav,"In many respects the embezzlement of which Leopold Redpath was guilty closely resembled that of Robson,",LJ015-0123.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0124.wav,but it was based upon more extended and audacious forgeries.,LJ015-0124.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0125.wav,Redpath's crime arose from his peculiar and independent position as registrar of stock of the Great Northern Railway Company.,LJ015-0125.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0126.wav,"This offered him great facilities for the creation of artificial stock, its sale from a fictitious holder, and transfer to himself.",LJ015-0126.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0127.wav,"All the signatures in the transfer were forged. Not only did he thus transfer and realize ""bogus"" stock",LJ015-0127.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0128.wav,"but he bought bona fide amounts, and increased their value by altering the figures,",LJ015-0128.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0129.wav,"by inserting say 1 before 500, and thus making it",LJ015-0129.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0130.wav,"fifteen hundred pounds, which larger amount was duly carried to his credit on the register, and entered upon the certificates of transfer.",LJ015-0130.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0131.wav,By these means Redpath misappropriated vast sums during a period extending over ten years.,LJ015-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0132.wav,"The total amount was never exactly made out, but the false stock created and issued by him was estimated at two hundred twenty thousand pounds.",LJ015-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0133.wav,"Even when the bubble burst Redpath, who had lived at the rate of twenty thousand a year,",LJ015-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0134.wav,"had assets in the shape of land, house, furniture, pictures, and objets d'art to the value of £50,000.",LJ015-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0135.wav,He began in a very small way.,LJ015-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0136.wav,"First a lawyer's clerk, he then got an appointment in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's office;",LJ015-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0137.wav,"afterwards he set up as an insurance broker on his own account, but presently failed.",LJ015-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0138.wav,"His fault was generosity,",LJ015-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0139.wav,"an open-handed, unthinking charity which gave freely to the poor and needy the money which belonged to his creditors.",LJ015-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0140.wav,"After his bankruptcy he obtained a place as clerk in the Great Northern Railway office,",LJ015-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0141.wav,"from which he rose to be assistant registrar, with the special duties of transferring shares.",LJ015-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0142.wav,"He soon proved his ability, and by unremitting attention mastered the whole work of the office.",LJ015-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0143.wav,"Later on he became registrar, and in this more independent position",LJ015-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0144.wav,developed to a colossal extent the frauds he had already practiced as a subordinate.,LJ015-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0145.wav,"Now he launched out into great expenditure, took a house in Chester Terrace, and became known as a Maecenas and patron of the arts.",LJ015-0145.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0146.wav,"He had a nice taste in bric-à-brac, and was considered a good judge of pictures.",LJ015-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0147.wav,"Leading social and artistic personages were to be met with at his house, and his hospitality was far famed.",LJ015-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0148.wav,"The choicest wines, the finest fruits,",LJ015-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0149.wav,"peas at ten shillings a quart, five-guinea pines, and early asparagus were to be found on his table.",LJ015-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0150.wav,"But his chief extravagance, his favorite folly, was the exercise of an ostentatious benevolence.",LJ015-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0151.wav,The philanthropy he had displayed in a small way when less prosperous became now a passion.,LJ015-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0152.wav,His name headed every subscription list; his purse was always open.,LJ015-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0153.wav,"Not content with giving where assistance was solicited, he himself sought out deserving cases and personally afforded relief.",LJ015-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0154.wav,When the crash came there were pensioners and other recipients of his bounty who could not believe,LJ015-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0155.wav,that so good a man had really been for years a swindler and a rogue.,LJ015-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0156.wav,"Down at Weybridge, where he had a country place, his name was long remembered with gratitude by the poor.",LJ015-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0157.wav,"During the days of his prosperity he was a governor of Christ's Hospital,",LJ015-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0158.wav,"of the St. Ann's Society, and one of the supporters and managers of the Patriotic Fund.",LJ015-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0159.wav,In his person he was neat and fastidious;,LJ015-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0160.wav,"he patronized the best tailors, and had a fashionable coiffeur from Hanover Square daily to curl his hair.",LJ015-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0161.wav,There was something dramatic in Redpath's detection,LJ015-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0162.wav,"Just after Robson's frauds had agitated the minds of all directors of companies, the chairman of the Great Northern (Mr. Denison)",LJ015-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0163.wav,was standing at a railway station talking to a certain well-known peer of the realm.,LJ015-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0164.wav,Redpath passed and lifted his hat to his chairman; the latter acknowledged the salute.,LJ015-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0165.wav,But the peer rushed forward and shook Redpath warmly by the hand.,LJ015-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0166.wav,"What do you know of our clerk? asked Mr. Denison of his lordship. ""Only that he is a capital fellow, who gives the best dinners and balls in town.""",LJ015-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0167.wav,Redpath had industriously circulated reports that he had prospered greatly in speculation;,LJ015-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0168.wav,but the chairman of the Great Northern could not realize that a clerk of the company could honestly be in the possession of unlimited wealth.,LJ015-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0169.wav,It was at once decided at the board to make a thorough examination of all his books.,LJ015-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0170.wav,Redpath was called in and informed of the intended investigation. He tried to stave off the evil hour by declaring that everything was perfectly right;,LJ015-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0171.wav,"but finding he could not escape, he said he would resign his post, and leaving the boardroom, disappeared.",LJ015-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0172.wav,The inquiry soon revealed the colossal character of the frauds.,LJ015-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0173.wav,"Warrants were issued for Redpath's arrest, but he had flown to Paris.",LJ015-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0174.wav,"Thither police officers followed, only to find that he had returned to London.",LJ015-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0175.wav,A further search discovered him at breakfast at a small house in the New Road.,LJ015-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0176.wav,"He was arrested, examined before a police magistrate, and committed to Newgate.",LJ015-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0177.wav,Great excitement prevailed in the city and the West End when Redpath's defalcations were made public.,LJ015-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0178.wav,"The Stock Market was greatly affected, and society, more especially that which frequents Exeter Hall, was convulsed.",LJ015-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0179.wav,"The Central Criminal Court, when the trial came on,",LJ015-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0180.wav,"was densely crowded, and many curious eyes were turned upon the somewhat remarkable man who occupied the dock.",LJ015-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0181.wav,"He is described by a contemporary account as a fresh-looking man of forty years of age, slightly bald, inclined to embonpoint,",LJ015-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0182.wav,and thoroughly embodying the idea of English respectability.,LJ015-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0183.wav,"His manner was generally self-possessed, but his face was marked with ""uneasy earnestness,""",LJ015-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0184.wav,"and he looked about him with wayward, furtive glances.",LJ015-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0185.wav,"When the jury found a verdict of guilty he remained unmoved. He listened without emotion to the judge's well-merited censures,",LJ015-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0186.wav,and received his sentence of transportation for life without much surprise.,LJ015-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0187.wav,"Redpath passed away into the outer darkness of a penal colony, where he was still living a year or two back",LJ015-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0188.wav,"But his name lingers still in this country as that of the first swindler of his time,",LJ015-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0189.wav,and the prototype of a class not uncommon in our later days,LJ015-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0190.wav,that of dishonest rogues who assume piety and philanthropy as a cloak for their misdeeds.,LJ015-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0191.wav,In Newgate Redpath is remembered by the prison officer as a difficult man to deal with.,LJ015-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0192.wav,"From the moment of his reception he gave himself great airs, as a martyr and a man heavily wronged.",LJ015-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0193.wav,"By-and-by, when escape seemed hopeless, and after sentence, he suddenly degenerated into the lowest stamp of criminal,",LJ015-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0194.wav,and behaved so as to justify a belief that he had been a jail-bird all his life.,LJ015-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0195.wav,It has been already remarked in these pages that with changed social conditions came a great change in the character of crimes.,LJ015-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0196.wav,"Highway robberies, for instance, had disappeared, if we except the spasmodic and severely repressed outbreak of ""garotting,""",LJ015-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0197.wav,which at one time spread terror throughout London. Thieves preferred now to use ingenuity rather than brute force.,LJ015-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0198.wav,"It was no longer possible to stop a coach or carriage, or rob the postman who carried the mail.",LJ015-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0199.wav,"The improved methods of locomotion had put a stop to these depredations. People traveled in company, as a rule;",LJ015-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0200.wav,"only when single and unprotected were they in any danger of attack, and that but rarely.",LJ015-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0201.wav,"There were still big prizes, however, to tempt the daring, and none appealed more to the thievish instinct than the custom of transmitting gold by rail.",LJ015-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0202.wav,"The precious metal was sent from place to place carefully locked up and guarded, no doubt;",LJ015-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0203.wav,"but were the precautions too minute, the vigilance too close to be eluded or overcome?",LJ015-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0204.wav,"This was the question which presented itself to the fertile brain of one Pierce,",LJ015-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0205.wav,"who had been concerned in various ""jobs"" of a dishonest character, and who for the moment was a clerk in a betting office.",LJ015-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0206.wav,"He laid the suggestion before Agar, a professional thief, who was of opinion it contained elements of success.",LJ015-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0207.wav,"But the collusion and active assistance of employees of the railway carriers were indispensable, and together",LJ015-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0208.wav,"they sounded one Burgess, a guard on the South-Eastern Railway, a line by which large quantities of bullion were sent to the Continent.",LJ015-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0209.wav,Burgess detailed the whole system of transmission.,LJ015-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0210.wav,"The gold, packed in an iron-bound box, was securely lodged in safes locked with patent Chubbs.",LJ015-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0211.wav,"Each safe had three sets of double keys, all held by confidential servants of the company.",LJ015-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0212.wav,"One pair was with the traffic superintendent in London, another with an official in Folkestone,",LJ015-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0213.wav,a third with the captain of the Folkestone and Boulogne boat.,LJ015-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0214.wav,At the other side of the Channel the French railway authorities took charge.,LJ015-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0215.wav,The safes while on the line en route between London and Folkestone were in the guard's van.,LJ015-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0216.wav,"This was an important step, and they might easily be robbed some day when Burgess was the guard, provided only that they could be opened.",LJ015-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0217.wav,The next step was to get impressions and fabricate false keys.,LJ015-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0218.wav,"A new accomplice was now needed within the company's establishment, and Pierce looked about long before he found the right person.",LJ015-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0219.wav,"At last he decided to enlist one Tester, a clerk in the traffic department, whom he thought would prove a likely tool.",LJ015-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0220.wav,"The four waited patiently for their opportunity,",LJ015-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0221.wav,"which came when the safes were sent to Chubbs' to be repaired; and Chubbs sent them back, but only with one key,",LJ015-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0222.wav,in such a way that Tester had possession of this key for a time.,LJ015-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0223.wav,"He lent it to Agar for a brief space, who promptly took an impression on wax. But the safes had a double lock;",LJ015-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0224.wav,the difficulty was to get a copy of the second key.,LJ015-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0225.wav,This was at length effected by Agar and Pierce.,LJ015-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0226.wav,"After hanging about the Folkestone office for some time, they saw at last that the key was kept in a certain cupboard.",LJ015-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0227.wav,"Still watching and waiting for the first chance, they seized it when the clerks left the office empty for a moment.",LJ015-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0228.wav,"Pierce boldly stepped in, found the cupboard unlocked; he removed the key, handed it to Agar outside,",LJ015-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0229.wav,"who quickly took the wax impression, handed it back to Pierce; Pierce replaced it, left the office, and the thing was done.",LJ015-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0230.wav,After this nothing remained but to wait for some occasion when the amount transmitted would be sufficient to justify the risks of robbery.,LJ015-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0231.wav,"It was Tester's business, who had access to the railway company's books, to watch for this.",LJ015-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0232.wav,Meanwhile the others completed their preparations with the utmost care.,LJ015-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0233.wav,A weight of shot was bought and stowed in carpet bags ready to replace exactly the abstracted gold.,LJ015-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0234.wav,"Courier bags were bought to carry the ""stuff"" slung over the shoulders;",LJ015-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0235.wav,"and last, but not least, Agar frequently traveled up and down the line to test the false keys he had manufactured with Pierce's assistance.",LJ015-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0236.wav,"Burgess admitted him into the guard's van, where he fitted and filed the keys till they worked easily and satisfactorily in the locks of the safe.",LJ015-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0237.wav,"One night Tester whispered to Agar and Pierce, ""All right,"" as they cautiously lounged about London Bridge.",LJ015-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0238.wav,"The thieves took first-class tickets, handed their bags full of shot to the porters, who placed them in the guard's van.",LJ015-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0239.wav,"Just as the train was starting Agar slipped into the van with Burgess, and Pierce got into a first-class carriage.",LJ015-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0240.wav,Agar at once got to work on the first safe.,LJ015-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0241.wav,"opened it, took out and broke into the bullion box, removed the gold, substituted the shot from a carpet bag,",LJ015-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0242.wav,"re-fastened and re-sealed the bullion box, and replaced it in the safe.",LJ015-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0243.wav,At Redhill Tester met the train and relieved the thieves of a portion of the stolen gold.,LJ015-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0244.wav,"At the same station Pierce joined Agar in the guard's van, and there were now three to carry on the robbery.",LJ015-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0245.wav,"The two remaining safes were attacked and nearly entirely despoiled in the same way as the first, and the contents transferred to the courier bags.",LJ015-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0246.wav,"The train was now approaching Folkestone, and Agar and Pierce hid themselves in a dark part of the van.",LJ015-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0247.wav,"At that station the safes were given out, heavy with shot, not gold; the thieves went on to Dover, and by-and-by,",LJ015-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0248.wav,"with Ostend tickets previously procured, returned to London without mishap, and by degrees disposed of much of the stolen gold.",LJ015-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0249.wav,"The theft was discovered at Boulogne, when the boxes were found not to weigh exactly what they ought. But no clue was obtained to the thieves,",LJ015-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0250.wav,and the theft might have remained a mystery but for the subsequent bad faith of Pierce to his accomplice Agar.,LJ015-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0251.wav,"The latter was ere long arrested on a charge of uttering forged cheques, convicted, and sentenced to transportation for life.",LJ015-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0252.wav,"When he knew that he could not escape his fate,",LJ015-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0253.wav,"he handed over to Pierce a sum of £3000, his own, whether rightly or wrongly acquired never came out,",LJ015-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0254.wav,"together with the unrealized part of the bullion, amounting in all to some £15,000,",LJ015-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0255.wav,"and begged his accomplice to invest it as a settlement on a woman named Kay, by whom he had had a child.",LJ015-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0256.wav,"Pierce made Kay only a few small payments, then appropriated the rest of the money.",LJ015-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0257.wav,"Kay, who had been living with Agar at the time of the bullion robbery,",LJ015-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0258.wav,"went to the police in great fury and distress, and disclosed all she knew of the affair.",LJ015-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0259.wav,"Agar too, in Newgate, heard how Pierce had treated him, and at once readily turned approver.",LJ015-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0260.wav,"As the evidence he gave incriminated Pierce, Burgess, and Tester, all three were arrested and committed to Newgate for trial.",LJ015-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0261.wav,"The whole strange story, the long incubation and the elaborate accomplishment of the plot,",LJ015-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0262.wav,"came out at the Old Bailey, and was acknowledged to be one of the most extraordinary on record.",LJ015-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0263.wav,"Scarcely had the conviction of these daring and astute thieves been assured, than another gigantic fraud was brought to light.",LJ015-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0264.wav,"The series of boldly-conceived and cleverly-executed forgeries in which James Townshend Saward, commonly called ""Jem the Penman,""",LJ015-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0265.wav,"was the prime mover,",LJ015-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0266.wav,has probably no parallel in the annals of crime. Saward himself is a striking and in some respects an unique figure in criminal history.,LJ015-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0267.wav,"A man of birth and education, a member of the bar, and of acknowledged legal attainments, his proclivities were all downward.",LJ015-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0268.wav,"Instead of following an honorable profession, he preferred to turn his great natural talents and ready wits to the most nefarious practices.",LJ015-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0269.wav,"He was known to the whole criminal fraternity as a high-class receiver of stolen goods, a negotiator more especially of stolen paper,",LJ015-0269.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0270.wav,"cheques and bills, of which he made a particular use.",LJ015-0270.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0271.wav,"He dealt too in the precious metals, when they had been improperly acquired,",LJ015-0271.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0272.wav,"and it was to him that Agar, Pierce, and the rest applied when seeking to dispose of their stolen bullion.",LJ015-0272.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0273.wav,But Saward's operations were mainly directed to the fabrication and uttering of forged cheques.,LJ015-0273.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0274.wav,His method was comprehensive and deeply laid.,LJ015-0274.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0275.wav,"Burglars brought him the cheques they stole from houses, thieves what they got in pocketbooks.",LJ015-0275.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0276.wav,"Cheques blank and canceled were his stock-in-trade. The former he filled up by exact imitation of the latter, signature and all.",LJ015-0276.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0277.wav,"When he could get nothing but the blank cheque, he set in motion all sorts of schemes for obtaining signatures, such as",LJ015-0277.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0278.wav,"commencing sham actions, and addressing formal applications, merely for the reply.",LJ015-0278.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0279.wav,One stroke of luck which he turned to great account,LJ015-0279.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0280.wav,"was the return from transportation of an old ""pal"" and confederate, who brought with him some bills of exchange.",LJ015-0280.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0281.wav,Saward's method of negotiating the cheques was equally well planned.,LJ015-0281.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0282.wav,"Like his great predecessor Old Patch, he never went to a bank himself, nor did any of his accomplices.",LJ015-0282.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0283.wav,The bearer of the cheque was always innocent and ignorant of the fraudulent nature of the document he presented.,LJ015-0283.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0284.wav,"In order to obtain messengers of this sort, Saward answered advertisements of persons seeking employment,",LJ015-0284.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0285.wav,"and when these presented themselves, entrusted them as a beginning with the duty of cashing cheques.",LJ015-0285.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0286.wav,"A confederate followed the emissary closely,",LJ015-0286.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0287.wav,"not only to ensure fair play and the surrender of the proceeds if the cheque was cashed, but to give timely notice if it was not,",LJ015-0287.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0288.wav,so that Saward and the rest might make themselves scarce.,LJ015-0288.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0289.wav,"As each transaction was carried out from a different address, and a different messenger always employed,",LJ015-0289.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0290.wav,"the forgers always escaped detection. But fate overtook two of the gang,",LJ015-0290.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0291.wav,"partly through their own carelessness, when transferring their operations to Yarmouth.",LJ015-0291.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0292.wav,"One named Hardwicke assumed the name of Ralph, and, to obtain commercial credit in Yarmouth, paid in £250 to a Yarmouth bank",LJ015-0292.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0293.wav,as coming from a Mr. Whitney.,LJ015-0293.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0294.wav,"He forgot to add that it was to be placed to Ralph's credit, and when he called as Ralph,",LJ015-0294.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0295.wav,"he was told it was only at Mr. Whitney's disposal, and that it could be paid to no one else.",LJ015-0295.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0296.wav,"Hardwicke, or ""Ralph,"" appealed to Saward in his difficulty",LJ015-0296.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0297.wav,and that clever schemer sent an elaborate letter of instructions how to ask for the money.,LJ015-0297.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0298.wav,"But while Hardwicke was in communication with Saward, the bank was in communication with London",LJ015-0298.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0299.wav,and the circumstances were deemed sufficiently suspicious to warrant the arrest of the gentlemen at Yarmouth on a charge of forgery and conspiracy.,LJ015-0299.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0300.wav,Saward's letter to Hardwicke fell into the hands of the police and compromised him.,LJ015-0300.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0301.wav,"While Hardwicke and Atwell were in Newgate awaiting trial, active search was made for Saward,",LJ015-0301.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0302.wav,"who was at length taken in a coffee-shop near Oxford Street, under the name of Hopkins. He resisted at first, and denied his identity,",LJ015-0302.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0303.wav,"but on being searched, two blank cheques of the London and Westminster Bank were found in his pocket.",LJ015-0303.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0304.wav,"He then confessed that he was the redoubtable Jem Saward, or Jem the Penman, and was conveyed to a police-court, and thence to Newgate.",LJ015-0304.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0305.wav,"At his trial Atwell and Hardwicke, two of his chief allies and accomplices, turned approvers,",LJ015-0305.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0306.wav,and the whole scheme of systematic forgery was laid bare.,LJ015-0306.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0307.wav,"The evidence was corroborated by that of many of the victims who had acted as messengers,",LJ015-0307.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0308.wav,"and others who swore to the meetings of the conspirators and their movements. Saward was found guilty,",LJ015-0308.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0309.wav,"and the judge, in passing sentence on him of transportation for life, expressed deep regret that ""the ingenuity, skill, and talent,",LJ015-0309.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0310.wav,"which had received so perverted and mistaken direction,",LJ015-0310.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0311.wav,"had not been guided by a sense of virtue, and directed to more honorable and useful pursuits.",LJ015-0311.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0312.wav,"The proceeds of these forgeries amounted, it was said, to some thousands per annum.",LJ015-0312.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0313.wav,"Saward spent all his share at low gaming houses, and in all manner of debaucheries.",LJ015-0313.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ015-0314.wav,"He was in person a short, square-built man of gentlemanly address, sharp and shrewd in conversation and manner.",LJ015-0314.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 19: Later Records",LJ016-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0002.wav,"The old notion always prevailed that Newgate was impregnable, so to speak, from within,",LJ016-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0003.wav,and that none of its inmates could hope to escape from its secure precincts.,LJ016-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0004.wav,"Yet the jail, in spite of its fortress-like aspect, was by no means really safe.",LJ016-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0005.wav,"Year after year prisoners determined to get free, and occasionally succeeded in their efforts.",LJ016-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0006.wav,The inspectors' reports mention many cases of evasion accomplished.,LJ016-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0007.wav,There were others less successful.,LJ016-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0008.wav,"Charles Thomas White, awaiting execution for arson, made a desperate effort to escape from Newgate in 1827.",LJ016-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0009.wav,"He had friends and auxiliaries inside the jail and out. The cell he occupied was near the outer wall,",LJ016-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0010.wav,"and had he but been able to remove its iron bars, he might have descended into Newgate Street by means of a rope ladder.",LJ016-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0011.wav,"The ladder was actually made, of black sewing-thread firmly and closely interwoven. But White could not remove the bars;",LJ016-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0012.wav,the instruments needed for the purpose never reached him.,LJ016-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0013.wav,"It was noticed that he was most anxious to receive a pair of shoes for which he had asked, and when they arrived they were closely examined.",LJ016-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0014.wav,"Sewn in between the upper and lower leathers several spring saws were found, which would have easily cut through any bars.",LJ016-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0015.wav,"White, when taxed with his attempt, admitted that the accusation was true, and spoke ""with pride and satisfaction of the practicability of his scheme.""",LJ016-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0016.wav,"There is an attempt at escape mentioned in Mr. Wakefield's book, which might have been an intended suicide.",LJ016-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0017.wav,"John Williams, a young fellow only twenty-three years of age, awaited execution in 1827 for stealing in a dwelling-house.",LJ016-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0018.wav,"On the very morning on which he was to suffer he eluded the vigilance, such as it was, of his officers",LJ016-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0019.wav,and climbed up the pipe of a cistern in the corner of the press yard; some thought with the idea of drowning himself.,LJ016-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0020.wav,"He never reached the cistern, but fell back into the yard, injuring his legs severely.",LJ016-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0021.wav,"Although his execution was imminent, a surgeon attended to his wounds, and he was carried more dead than alive to the scaffold.",LJ016-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0022.wav,A harrowing scene followed;,LJ016-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0023.wav,"the wounds broke open and bled profusely while the last dread penalty was being performed, to the manifest excitement and indignation of the crowd.",LJ016-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0024.wav,"A more daring and skilful escape was effected in 1836 by the chimney-sweep Henry Williams,",LJ016-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0025.wav,"who, while detained in the press-yard as a capital convict, under sentence of death for burglary,",LJ016-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0026.wav,managed to get away in the very same spot where his namesake had nine years before so miserably failed.,LJ016-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0027.wav,"Escape seemed absolutely hopeless,",LJ016-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0028.wav,"and would certainly have been impossible to any one less nimble than a chimney-sweep, trained under the old system to ascend the most intricate flues.",LJ016-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0029.wav,"Even after Williams had got out, persons were disposed to disbelieve that the escape had been accomplished in the manner indicated;",LJ016-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0030.wav,they preferred to credit it to carelessness or collusion from officers of the jail.,LJ016-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0031.wav,"Yet from the circumstantial account given by Williams after recapture, there can be little doubt that he got away as will be described.",LJ016-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0032.wav,Williams as a capital convict was lodged in the press-yard or condemned ward.,LJ016-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0033.wav,"He had access to the airing yard, and there was for hours no kind of supervision.",LJ016-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0034.wav,In one corner of the airing yard stood a cistern at some height from the ground;,LJ016-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0035.wav,"the wall beneath and above it was ""rusticated,"" in other words, the granite surface had become roughened, and offered a sort of foothold.",LJ016-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0036.wav,"About fifty feet from the ground level, and above the cistern, a revolving chevaux-de-frise of iron was fixed,",LJ016-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0037.wav,"with only a short interval between it and the wall, supported by a horizontal iron railing with upright points;",LJ016-0037.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0038.wav,in the wall above the chevaux-de-frise projected a series of iron spikes sharp enough to forbid further ascent.,LJ016-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0039.wav,"Williams surveyed these formidable obstacles to evasion, and calmly proceeded to surmount them.",LJ016-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0040.wav,"His first task was to gain the top of the cistern; this he effected by keeping his back to one side of the angle,",LJ016-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0041.wav,"and working with his hands behind him, while he used his bare feet like claws upon the other side of the wall angle.",LJ016-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0042.wav,"The condition of the stone surface just mentioned assisted him in this, and he managed to get beyond the cistern to the railing below the chevaux-de-frise.",LJ016-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0043.wav,"The least slip now would have been fatal to him. But he could not thrust his body in through the narrow space left by the chevaux-de-frise,",LJ016-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0044.wav,"and was compelled to work along the railing round three-quarters of the square of the yard,",LJ016-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0045.wav,and at length reached a point opposite the top of the building containing the condemned wards. This had been a perilous and painful task;,LJ016-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0046.wav,the spikes of the railing penetrated his flesh and made progression slow and difficult.,LJ016-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0047.wav,"But the worst part of the business was to jump from this irksome foothold of the iron grating on to the top of the building just mentioned,",LJ016-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0048.wav,a distance of eight or nine feet.,LJ016-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0049.wav,He had here completed his ascent.,LJ016-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0050.wav,His next job was to descend outside Newgate.,LJ016-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0051.wav,"Clambering along the roof,",LJ016-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0052.wav,"he passed to the top of the ordinary's residence, hoping to find an open sky-light by which he might enter and so work downstairs.",LJ016-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0053.wav,"If the worst came to the worst, he intended to have gone down some chimney, as he had often done before in the way of business.",LJ016-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0054.wav,"But he did not like the risk of entering a room by the fireplace, and the chances of detection it offered.",LJ016-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0055.wav,"He traversed vainly all the roofs in Newgate Street,",LJ016-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0056.wav,"running a great risk of discovery as he passed by a lot of workmen at Tyler's manufactory in Warwick Square, which had formerly been the College of Physicians.",LJ016-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0057.wav,"As his coat was an encumbrance, he left it on the top of the third house in Newgate Street, and thus in shirt-sleeves, barefoot and bareheaded,",LJ016-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0058.wav,he worked along to the roofs in Warwick Lane.,LJ016-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0059.wav,Here he came upon a woman on the leads hanging out clothes to dry.,LJ016-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0060.wav,"Williams concealed himself behind a chimney till she had re-entered her garret,",LJ016-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0061.wav,"and then following her down a step ladder into the house, told his story, appealed to and won her compassion.",LJ016-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0062.wav,She suffered him to pass downstairs.,LJ016-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0063.wav,"Below he met another woman and a girl, both of whom were terrified at his appearance, but",LJ016-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0064.wav,when he explained that he was running away from the gallows they left him the road clear.,LJ016-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0065.wav,"To walk out into the street was an easy affair, and he was now free, with one and fourpence in his pocket and a shirt and trousers for all his clothing.",LJ016-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0066.wav,"Denied admission everywhere as a ragged, half-naked beggar,",LJ016-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0067.wav,"he tramped across London Bridge to Wandsworth, where he refreshed himself with a pint of strong ale, the first sustenance he had taken since his escape,",LJ016-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0068.wav,"and continued his march to Kingston, where he slept soundly under a hedge till next morning.",LJ016-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0069.wav,"Entering a town, he obtained employment at once as a chimney-sweep",LJ016-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0070.wav,"from a widow woman, who gave him ""bub and grub,"" or food and one-and-sixpence, for every nine days' work.",LJ016-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0071.wav,"Dissatisfied with this remuneration, he again took to the road, and tramped into Hampshire,",LJ016-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0072.wav,"where he presently committed a burglary at Lymington, was caught, and lodged in Winchester Jail.",LJ016-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0073.wav,"Mr. Cope, the governor of Newgate, having been communicated with, proceeded to Winchester, where he at once identified Williams.",LJ016-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0074.wav,"The success, although very short-lived, which attended him, no doubt inspired other inmates of Newgate to follow his example.",LJ016-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0075.wav,It was for some time after this a constant practice to go up the chimneys in the hopes of escaping by the flue.,LJ016-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0076.wav,"Even then, however, irons across barred the ascent after a certain distance, and in no one case did a fugitive get clear away.",LJ016-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0077.wav,"A man named Lears, under sentence of transportation for an attempt at murder on board ship, got up part of the way,",LJ016-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0078.wav,but had to come down again covered with soot and filth just as the officers entered the ward.,LJ016-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0079.wav,"Lears was rewarded by being obliged to wear cross irons on his legs, a punishment rarely inflicted in Newgate,",LJ016-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0080.wav,"and probably one of the few cases of a recurrence, but under proper safeguards and limitations, to the old system of chains.",LJ016-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0081.wav,On another occasion Mr. Cope the governor came in and missed a man.,LJ016-0081.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0082.wav,The ward was one short of its number. What had become of the fellow?,LJ016-0082.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0084.wav,"the fugitive, uncomfortably ensconced in the flue, came down of his own accord, like Colonel Colt's raccoon.",LJ016-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0085.wav,"After this great iron guards, just as are to be seen in lunatic asylums,",LJ016-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0086.wav,"were fixed over the fireplaces, and the prisoners had no longer access to the chimneys.",LJ016-0086.wav | |