Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences, credited to Arthur L. Hayward, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward. Read in English by Jim Gallagher; PhyllisV; Ciufi Galeazzi; Kristine Bekere; SteveMiller; Elizabeth Miles; 5Tommy00; Blake Butler; DuckTD; Peter Musgrove; Dale Grothmann; John; Andrea Kotzer; Linda Johnson; Beau Wood; Jervis Hudson; Username146; Scotty Smith; Theophania; Lynne T; Colleen McMahon "If there be a haunted spot in London it must surely be a few square yards that lie a little west of the Marble Arch, for in the long course of some six centuries over fifty thousand felons, traitors and martyrs took there a last farewell of a world they were too bad or too good to live in. From remote antiquity, when the seditious were taken _ad furcas Tyburnam_, until that November day in 1783 when John Austin closed the long list, the gallows were kept ever busy, and during the first half of the eighteenth century, with which this book deals, every Newgate sessions sent thither its thieves, highwaymen and coiners by the score." We have a strange fascination with crime and criminals; and with their punishment... just or otherwise. Here, we have a collection of papers regarding the most infamous criminals of the early eighteenth century selected from the original and authentic memoirs originally published in 1735. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• Author credits: Arthur L. Hayward
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 77
• Listed recording duration: 12:51:34

Catalogue topics

• robbery
• murderer
• death penalty
• execution
• highwaymen
• newgate
• tyburn
• hanging

Opening tracks: first 24 of 77

1. 01 - Introduction — 16:30
2. 02 - The Preface — 26:48
3. 03 - The Life of JANE GRIFFIN, who was Executed for the Murder of her Maid, January 29, 1719-20 — 17:18
4. 04 - The Lives of JOHN TRIPPUCK, the Golden Tinman, a Highwayman; RICHARD CANE, a Footpad; THOMAS CHARNOCK, a thief; and RICHARD SHEPHERD, a Housebreaker, who were all executed at Tyburn, the 29th of January, 1719-20 — 13:26
5. 05 - The Life of WILLIAM BARTON, a Highwayman — 20:16
6. 06 - ROBERT PERKINS, Thief — 10:01
7. 07 - BARBARA SPENCER, Coiner, etc. — 11:56
8. 08 - WALTER KENNEDY, a Pirate — 16:59
9. 09 - The Life of MATTHEW CLARK, a Footpad and Murderer — 10:14
10. 10 - The Life of JOHN WINSHIP, Highwayman and Footpad — 10:07
11. 11 - The Life of JOHN MEFF, alias MERTH, a Housebreaker and a Highwayman — 9:53
12. 12 - The Life of JOHN WIGLEY, a Highwayman — 4:08
13. 13 - The Life of WILLIAM CASEY, a Robber — 7:06
14. 14 - The Life of JOHN DYKES, a Thief and Highwayman — 7:52
15. 15 - The Life of RICHARD JAMES, a Highwayman — 5:28
16. 16 - The Life of JAMES WRIGHT, a Highwayman — 3:58
17. 17 - The Life of NATHANIEL HAWES, a Thief and a Robber — 18:54
18. 18 - The Life of JOHN JONES, a Pickpocket — 6:36
19. 19 - The Life of JOHN SMITH, a Murderer — 5:58
20. 20 - The Life of JAMES SHAW, alias SMITH, a Highwayman and Murderer — 11:14
21. 21 - The Life of WILLIAM COLTHOUSE, a Thief and Highwayman — 5:58
22. 22 - The Life of WILLIAM BURRIDGE, a Highwayman — 6:30
23. 23 - The Life of JOHN THOMSON, a thief, Highwayman, etc. — 6:20
24. 24 - The Life of THOMAS REEVES, a Notorious Highwayman and Footpad — 6:18

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