| audio,transcription,file_name | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0146.wav,"He had all the characteristics of the poisoner -- the calm deliberation,",LJ017-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0147.wav,"the protracted dissimulation, as with unshrinking, relentless wickedness the deadly work is carried on to the end.",LJ017-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0148.wav,"Smethurst's victim was a Miss Bankes, with whom he had contracted a bigamous marriage.",LJ017-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0149.wav,"He had met her at a boarding-house, where he lived with his own wife, a person of ""shady"" antecedents,",LJ017-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0150.wav,and whom he left without scruple to join Miss Bankes.,LJ017-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0151.wav,"The latter seems to have succumbed only too willingly to his fascinations, and to have as readily agreed to marry him,",LJ017-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0152.wav,in spite of the existence of the other Mrs. Smethurst.,LJ017-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0153.wav,"Probably the doctor had told her the story he brought forward when tried for bigamy, namely,",LJ017-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0154.wav,"that Mrs. Smethurst had no right to the name, but had a husband of her own, one Johnson, alive -- a story subsequently disproved.",LJ017-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0155.wav,"Miss Bankes seems to have counted upon some species of whitewashing, no less than the repudiation of the other marriage,",LJ017-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0156.wav,and told her sister as much when they last met.,LJ017-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0157.wav,"For some months Smethurst and Miss Bankes lived together as man and wife, first in London, and then at Richmond.",LJ017-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0158.wav,"She had a little fortune of her own, some £1700 or £1800,",LJ017-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0159.wav,"and a life-interest in £5000, a fact on which Smethurst's counsel dwelt with much weight,",LJ017-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0160.wav,as indicating a motive for keeping her alive rather than killing her.,LJ017-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0161.wav,"But probably the lump sum was the bait, or perhaps Smethurst wished to return to his temporarily deserted first wife.",LJ017-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0162.wav,"Whatever the exact cause which impelled him to crime, it seems certain that he began to give her some poison,",LJ017-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0163.wav,"either arsenic or antimony, or both, in small quantities,",LJ017-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0164.wav,"with the idea of subjecting her to the irritant poison slowly but surely until the desired effect, death, was achieved.",LJ017-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0165.wav,"As she became worse and worse, Smethurst called in the best medical advice in Richmond,",LJ017-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0166.wav,but was careful to prime them with his facts and lead them if possible to accept his diagnosis of the case.,LJ017-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0167.wav,"Smethurst was found guilty by the jury, and sentenced to death.",LJ017-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0168.wav,"But a long public discussion followed, and in consequence he was reprieved.",LJ017-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0169.wav,"The Home Secretary, in a letter to the Lord Chief Baron, stated that, quote, although the facts are full of suspicion against Smethurst,",LJ017-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0170.wav,there is not absolute and complete evidence of his guilt. End quote.,LJ017-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0171.wav,"Smethurst was therefore given a free pardon for the offense of murder,",LJ017-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0172.wav,"but he was subsequently again tried for bigamy, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.",LJ017-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0173.wav,Catherine Wilson was a female poisoner who did business wholesale.,LJ017-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0174.wav,She was tried in April 1862 on suspicion of having attempted to poison a neighbor with oil of vitriol.,LJ017-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0175.wav,"The circumstances were strange. Mrs. Wilson had gone to the chemist's for medicine,",LJ017-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0176.wav,"and on her return had administered a dose of something which burnt the mouth badly, but did not prove fatal.",LJ017-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0177.wav,"Wilson was acquitted on this charge, but other suspicious facts cropped up while she was in Newgate.",LJ017-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0178.wav,It appeared that several persons with whom she was intimate had succumbed suddenly.,LJ017-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0179.wav,"In all cases the symptoms were much the same,",LJ017-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0180.wav,"vomiting, violent retching, purging, such as are visible in cholera, and all dated from the time when she knew a young man named Dixon,",LJ017-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0181.wav,who had been in the habit of taking colchicum for rheumatism. Mrs. Wilson heard then casually from a medical man,LJ017-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0182.wav,"that it was a very dangerous medicine, and she profited by what she had heard.",LJ017-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0183.wav,"Soon afterwards Dixon died, showing all the symptoms already described.",LJ017-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0184.wav,"Soon afterwards a friend, Mrs. Atkinson, came to London from Westmoreland, and stayed in Mrs. Wilson's house.",LJ017-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0185.wav,"She was in good health on leaving home, and had with her a large sum of money.",LJ017-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0186.wav,"While with Mrs. Wilson she became suddenly and alarmingly ill, and died in great agony.",LJ017-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0187.wav,"Her husband, who came up to town, would not allow a post-mortem, and again Mrs. Wilson escaped.",LJ017-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0188.wav,"Mrs. Atkinson's symptoms had been the same as Dixon's. Then Mrs. Wilson went to live with a man named Taylor,",LJ017-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0189.wav,"who was presently attacked in the same way as the others, but, but, thanks to the prompt administration of remedies, he recovered.",LJ017-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0190.wav,"After this came the charge of administering oil of vitriol, which failed, as has been described.",LJ017-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0191.wav,"Last of all Mrs. Wilson poisoned her landlady, Mrs. Soames, under precisely the same conditions as the foregoing.",LJ017-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0192.wav,"Here, however, the evidence was strong and sufficient.",LJ017-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0193.wav,"It was proved that Mrs. Wilson had given Mrs. Soames something peculiar to drink,",LJ017-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0194.wav,"that immediately afterwards Mrs. Soames was taken ill with vomiting and purging,",LJ017-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0195.wav,and that Mrs. Wilson administered the same medicine again and again.,LJ017-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0196.wav,"The last time Mrs. Soames showed great reluctance to take it, but Wilson said it would certainly do her good.",LJ017-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0197.wav,"This mysterious medicine Wilson kept carefully locked up, and allowed no one to see it,",LJ017-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0198.wav,but its nature was betrayed when this last victim also died.,LJ017-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0199.wav,"The first post-mortem indicated death from natural causes,",LJ017-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0200.wav,but a more careful investigation attributed it beyond doubt to over-doses of colchicum.,LJ017-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0201.wav,"Dr. Alfred Taylor, the great authority and writer on medical jurisprudence, corroborated this, and in his evidence on the trial",LJ017-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0202.wav,"fairly electrified the court by declaring it his opinion that many deaths, supposed to be from cholera, were really due to poison.",LJ017-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0203.wav,"This fact was referred to by the judge in his summing up,",LJ017-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0204.wav,who said that he feared it was only too true that secret poisoning was at that time very rife in the metropolis.,LJ017-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0205.wav,"Wilson was duly sentenced to death, and suffered impenitent, hardened, and without any confession of her guilt.",LJ017-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0206.wav,"Although murder by insidious methods had become more common, cases where violence of the most deadly and determined kind was offered",LJ017-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0207.wav,"had not quite disappeared. I will mention two cases of this class, one accompanied with piracy on the high seas,",LJ017-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0208.wav,"the other perpetrated in a railway-carriage, and showing the promptitude with which criminals accept and utilize altered conditions of life,",LJ017-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0209.wav,more particularly as regards locomotion.,LJ017-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0210.wav,"The first case was that of the 'Flowery Land,'",LJ017-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0211.wav,"which left London for Singapore on the 28th July, 1863, with a cargo of wine and other goods.",LJ017-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0212.wav,Her captain was John Smith;,LJ017-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0213.wav,"the first and second mates, Karswell and Taffir; there were two other Englishmen on board, and the rest of the crew were a polyglot lot,",LJ017-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0214.wav,"most of them, as was proved by their subsequent acts, blackguards of the deepest dye.",LJ017-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0215.wav,"Six were Spaniards, or rather natives of Manilla, and men of color; one was a Greek, another a Turk;",LJ017-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0216.wav,"there were also a Frenchman, a Norwegian (the carpenter), three Chinamen, a ""Sclavonian,"" and a black on board.",LJ017-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0217.wav,Navigation and discipline could not be easy with such a nondescript crew.,LJ017-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0218.wav,"The captain was kindly but somewhat intemperate, the first mate a man of some determination,",LJ017-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0219.wav,and punishment such as rope's-ending and tying to the bulwarks had to be applied to get the work properly done.,LJ017-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0220.wav,"The six Spaniards, the Greek, and the Turk were in the same watch,",LJ017-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0221.wav,"eight truculent and reckless scoundrels, who, brooding over their fancied wrongs, and burning for revenge,",LJ017-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0222.wav,hatched amongst them a plot to murder their officers and seize the ship.,LJ017-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0223.wav,"The mutiny was organized with great secrecy, and broke out most unexpectedly in the middle of the night.",LJ017-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0224.wav,A simultaneous attack was made upon the captain and the first mate.,LJ017-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0225.wav,The latter had the watch on deck.,LJ017-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0226.wav,One half of the mutineers fell upon him unawares with handspikes and capstan-bars.,LJ017-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0227.wav,"He was struck down, imploring mercy, but they beat him about the head and face",LJ017-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0228.wav,"till every feature was obliterated, and then, still living, flung him into the sea.",LJ017-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0229.wav,"Meanwhile the captain, roused from his berth,",LJ017-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0230.wav,"came out of the cabin, was caught near the 'companion' by the rest of the mutineers, and promptly dispatched with daggers.",LJ017-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0231.wav,"His body was found lying in a pool of blood in a night-dress, stabbed over and over again in the left side.",LJ017-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0232.wav,"The captain's brother, a passenger on board the 'Flowery Land,' was also stabbed to death and his body thrown overboard.",LJ017-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0233.wav,"The second mate, who had heard the hammering of the capstan-bars and the handspikes, with the first mate's and captain's agonized cries, had come out,",LJ017-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0234.wav,"verified the murderers, and then shut himself up in his cabin.",LJ017-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0235.wav,"He was soon summoned on deck, but as he would not move, the mutineers came down and stood in a circle round his berth.",LJ017-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0236.wav,"Leon, or Lyons, who spoke English,",LJ017-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0237.wav,when asked said they would spare his life if he would navigate the ship for them to the River Plate or Buenos Aires.,LJ017-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0238.wav,"Taffir, the second mate, agreed, but constantly went in fear of his life for the remainder of the voyage;",LJ017-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0239.wav,"and although the mutineers spared him, they ill-treated the Chinamen, and cut one badly with knives.",LJ017-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0240.wav,"Immediately after the murder cases of champagne, which formed part of the cargo, were brought on deck and broached;",LJ017-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0241.wav,"the captain's cabin ransacked, his money and clothes divided amongst the mutineers, as well as much of the merchandise on board.",LJ017-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0242.wav,"Leon wished to make every one on board share and share alike, so as to implicate the innocent with the guilty;",LJ017-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0243.wav,"but Vartos, or Watto, the Turk, would not allow any but the eight mutineers to have anything.",LJ017-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0244.wav,"The murders were perpetrated on the 10th September, and the ship continued her voyage for nearly three weeks, meeting and speaking one ship only.",LJ017-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0245.wav,"On the 2nd October they sighted land, ten miles distant;",LJ017-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0246.wav,"the mutineers took command of the ship, put her about till night-fall, by which time they had scuttled her, got out the boats, and all left the ship.",LJ017-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0247.wav,"The rest of the crew were also permitted to embark, except the Chinamen, one of whom was thrown into the water and drowned,",LJ017-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0248.wav,"while the other two were left to go down in the ship, and were seen clinging to the tops until the waters closed over them.",LJ017-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0249.wav,The boats reached the shore on the 4th October. Leon had prepared a plausible tale to the effect that they belonged to an American ship,LJ017-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0250.wav,"from Peru bound to Bordeaux, which had foundered at sea;",LJ017-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0251.wav,"that they had been in the boats five days and nights, but that the captain and others had been lost.",LJ017-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0252.wav,The place at which they landed was not far from the entrance to the River Plate.,LJ017-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0253.wav,"A farmer took them in for the night, and drove them next day to Rocha, a place north of Maldonado.",LJ017-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0254.wav,"Taffir, the mate, finding there was a man who could speak English at another place twenty miles off,",LJ017-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0255.wav,"repaired there secretly, and so gave information to the Brazilian authorities.",LJ017-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0256.wav,"The mutineers were arrested, the case inquired into by a naval court-martial,",LJ017-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0257.wav,"and the prisoners eventually surrendered to the British authorities, brought to England, and lodged in Newgate.",LJ017-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0258.wav,Their trial followed at the Central Criminal Court.,LJ017-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0259.wav,"Eight were arraigned at the same time: six Spaniards, Leon, Blanco, Duranno, Santos, and Marsolino;",LJ017-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0260.wav,"Vartos the Turk, and Carlos the Greek.",LJ017-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0261.wav,"Seven were found guilty of murder on the high seas, and one, Carlos, acquitted.",LJ017-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0262.wav,"Two of the seven, Santos and Marsolino, were reprieved, and their sentences commuted to penal servitude for life;",LJ017-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0263.wav,the remaining five were executed in one batch.,LJ017-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0264.wav,"They were an abject, miserable crew, cowards at heart; but some, especially Lopez, continued bloodthirsty to the last.",LJ017-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0265.wav,"Lopez took a violent dislike to the officer of the ward in charge of them, and often expressed a keen desire to do for him.",LJ017-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0266.wav,"They none of them spoke much English except Leon, commonly called Lyons.",LJ017-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0267.wav,"After condemnation, as the rules now kept capital convicts strictly apart, they could not be lodged in the two condemned cells,",LJ017-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0268.wav,"and they were each kept in an ordinary separate cell of the newly-constructed block, with the ""traps,"" or square openings in the cell door,",LJ017-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0269.wav,"let down. A full view of them was thus at all times obtainable by the officers who, without intermission, day and night patrolled the ward.",LJ017-0269.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0270.wav,On the morning of execution the noise of fixing the gallows in the street outside awoke one or two of them.,LJ017-0270.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0271.wav,"Lyons asked the time, and was told it was only five.",LJ017-0271.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0272.wav,"Ah! he remarked, ""they will have to wait for us then till eight.""",LJ017-0272.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0273.wav,Lopez was more talkative.,LJ017-0273.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0274.wav,When the warder went in to call him he asked for his clothes. He was told he would have to wear his own.,LJ017-0274.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0276.wav,"Then he wanted to know when the policemen would arrive, and was told none would come.",LJ017-0276.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0277.wav,The soldiers then?,LJ017-0277.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0278.wav,No soldiers either.,LJ017-0278.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0280.wav,The convicts were pinioned one by one and sent singly out to the gallows.,LJ017-0280.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0281.wav,"As the first to appear would have some time to wait for his fellows, a difficult and painful ordeal,",LJ017-0281.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0282.wav,the seemingly most courageous was selected to lead the way.,LJ017-0282.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0283.wav,"This was Duranno; but the sight of the heaving mass of uplifted, impassioned faces",LJ017-0283.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0284.wav,"was too much for his nerves, and he so nearly fainted that he had to be seated in a chair.",LJ017-0284.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 21: Newgate Notorieties, part 2.",LJ018-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0002.wav,"In July 1864 occurred the murder of Mr. Briggs, a gentleman advanced in years and chief clerk in Robarts' bank.",LJ018-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0003.wav,"As the circumstances under which it was perpetrated were somewhat novel,",LJ018-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0004.wav,"and as some time elapsed before the discovery and apprehension of the supposed murderer,",LJ018-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0005.wav,the public mind was greatly agitated by the affair for several months. The story of the murder must be pretty familiar to most of my readers.,LJ018-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0006.wav,"Mr. Briggs left the bank one afternoon as usual, dined with his daughter at Peckham,",LJ018-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0007.wav,"then returned to the city to take the train from Fenchurch Street home, traveling by the North London Railway.",LJ018-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0008.wav,"He lived at Hackney, but he never reached it alive.",LJ018-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0009.wav,"When the train arrived at Hackney station, a passenger who was about to enter one of the carriages found the cushions soaked with blood.",LJ018-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0010.wav,"Inside the carriage was a hat, a walking-stick, and a small black leather bag.",LJ018-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0011.wav,About the same time a body was discovered on the line near the railway-bridge by Victoria Park.,LJ018-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0012.wav,"It was that of an aged man, whose head had been battered in by a life-preserver.",LJ018-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0013.wav,"There was a deep wound just over the ear, the skull was fractured, and there were several other blows and wounds on the head.",LJ018-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0014.wav,"Strange to say, the unfortunate man was not yet dead, and he actually survived more than four-and-twenty hours.",LJ018-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0015.wav,"His identity was established by a bundle of letters in his pocket, which bore his full address:",LJ018-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0016.wav,"T. Briggs, Esq., Robarts & Co., Lombard Street.",LJ018-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0017.wav,"The friends of Mr. Briggs were communicated with, and it was ascertained that when he left home the morning of the murderous attack,",LJ018-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0018.wav,he wore gold-rimmed eye-glasses and a gold watch and chain.,LJ018-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0019.wav,"The stick and bag were his, but not the hat.",LJ018-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0020.wav,"A desperate and deadly struggle must have taken place in the carriage, and the stain of a bloody hand marked the door.",LJ018-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0021.wav,"The facts of the murder and its object, robbery, were thus conclusively proved.",LJ018-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0022.wav,"It was also easily established that the hat found in the carriage had been bought at Walker's, a hatter's in Crawford Street,",LJ018-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0023.wav,"Marylebone; while within a few days Mr. Briggs' gold chain was traced to a jeweler's in Cheapside,",LJ018-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0024.wav,"Mr. Death, who had given another in exchange for it to a man supposed to be a foreigner.",LJ018-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0025.wav,More precise clues to the murderer were not long wanting; indeed the readiness with which they were produced and followed up,LJ018-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0026.wav,showed how greatly the publicity and wide dissemination of the news regarding murder facilitate the detection of crime.,LJ018-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0027.wav,"In little more than a week a cabman came forward and voluntarily made a statement which at once drew suspicion to a German, Franz Müller,",LJ018-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0028.wav,who had been a lodger of his. Müller had given the cabman's little daughter a jeweler's cardboard box bearing the name of Mr. Death.,LJ018-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0029.wav,A photograph of Müller shown the jeweler was identified as the likeness of the man who had exchanged Mr. Briggs' chain.,LJ018-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0030.wav,"Last of all, the cabman swore that he had bought the very hat found in the carriage for Müller at the hatter's, Walker's of Crawford Street.",LJ018-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0031.wav,"This fixed the crime pretty certainly upon Müller, who had already left the country, thus increasing suspicion under which he lay.",LJ018-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0032.wav,"There was no mystery about his departure; he had gone to Canada, by the 'Victoria' sailing ship, starting from the London docks, and bound to New York.",LJ018-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0033.wav,"Directly the foregoing facts were established, a couple of detective officers, armed with a warrant to arrest Müller,",LJ018-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0034.wav,"and accompanied by Mr. Death the jeweler and the cabman, went down to Liverpool and took the first steamer across the Atlantic.",LJ018-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0035.wav,"This was the 'City of Manchester,' which was expected to arrive some days before the 'Victoria,' and did so.",LJ018-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0036.wav,"The officers went on board the 'Victoria' at once, Müller was identified by Mr. Death, and the arrest was made.",LJ018-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0037.wav,"In searching the prisoner's box, Mr. Briggs' watch was found wrapped up in a piece of leather,",LJ018-0037.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0038.wav,"and Müller at the time of his capture was actually wearing Mr. Briggs' hat, cut down and somewhat altered.",LJ018-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0039.wav,"The prisoner was forthwith extradited and sent back to England, which he reached with his escort on the 17th September the same year.",LJ018-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0040.wav,"His trial followed at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court, and ended in his conviction.",LJ018-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0041.wav,"The case was one of circumstantial evidence, but, as Sir Robert Collyer the Solicitor-General pointed out,",LJ018-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0042.wav,it was the strongest circumstantial evidence which had ever been brought forward in a murder case.,LJ018-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0043.wav,It was really evidence of facts which could not be controverted or explained away.,LJ018-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0044.wav,"There was the prisoner's poverty, his inability to account for himself on the night of the murder, and his possession of the property of the murdered man.",LJ018-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0045.wav,"An alibi was set up for the defense, but not well substantiated, and the jury without hesitation returned a verdict of guilty.",LJ018-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0046.wav,Müller protested after sentence of death had been passed upon him that he had been convicted on a false statement of facts.,LJ018-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0047.wav,"He adhered to this almost to the very last. His case had been warmly espoused by the Society for the Protection of Germans in this country,",LJ018-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0048.wav,and powerful influence was exerted both here and abroad to obtain a reprieve.,LJ018-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0049.wav,Müller knew that any confession would ruin his chances of escape.,LJ018-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0050.wav,"His arguments were specious and evasive when pressed to confess. ""Why should man confess to man?"" he replied;",LJ018-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0051.wav,"man cannot forgive man, only God can do so. Man is therefore only accountable to God.",LJ018-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0052.wav,"But on the gallows, when the cap was over his eyes and the rope had been adjusted round his neck, and within a second of the moment when he would be launched into eternity,",LJ018-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0053.wav,"he whispered in the ear of the German pastor who attended him on the scaffold,",LJ018-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0054.wav,While in the condemned cell he conversed freely with the warders in broken English or through an interpreter.,LJ018-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0055.wav,"He is described as not a bad-looking man, with a square German type of face,",LJ018-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0056.wav,"blue eyes which were generally half closed, and very fair hair.",LJ018-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0057.wav,"He was short in stature, his legs were light for the upper part of his body, which was powerful, almost herculean.",LJ018-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0058.wav,It is generally supposed that he committed the murder under a sudden access of covetousness and greed.,LJ018-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0059.wav,"He saw Mr. Briggs' watch-chain, and followed him instantly into the carriage, determined to have it at all costs.",LJ018-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0060.wav,"His crime under this aspect of it was less premeditated, and less atrocious therefore, than that of Lefroy.",LJ018-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0061.wav,One other curious murder may be added to the two foregoing.,LJ018-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0062.wav,Christian Sattler was by birth a German.,LJ018-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0063.wav,"He had led a wild life; had left his native land and enlisted first in the French army in Algeria,",LJ018-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0064.wav,afterwards in the British German Legion raised for the Crimean War.,LJ018-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0065.wav,"At the disbandment of the force, as he was without resources, he turned his attention to hotel robberies, by which he lived for some years.",LJ018-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0066.wav,"He at length stole a carpet-bag containing valuables, and fled to Hamburgh.",LJ018-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0067.wav,"Thither, he was pursued by a detective officer,",LJ018-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0068.wav,"Inspector Thain, who, being unable to obtain his extradition legally, had him inveigled on board an English steamer,",LJ018-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0069.wav,where the arrest was made.,LJ018-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0070.wav,"Sattler was ironed for safe custody,",LJ018-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0071.wav,"a proceeding which he vehemently resented, and begged that they might be removed, as the handcuffs hurt his wrists.",LJ018-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0072.wav,The inspector said that they could not be removed till he reached England.,LJ018-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0073.wav,This reply of his contained no promise of immediate release.,LJ018-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0074.wav,"Sattler probably misunderstood, and he declared that the police officer had broken faith with him, having, moreover, stated that",LJ018-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0075.wav,while at sea the captain of the ship was responsible for the security of the prisoner.,LJ018-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0076.wav,"As Sattler brooded over his wrongs, his rage got the upper hand, and he resolved to wreak it upon Thain.",LJ018-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0077.wav,"Although manacled, he managed to get a pistol from his chest and load it.",LJ018-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0078.wav,"The next time Thain entered his cabin he fired at him point-blank, and lodged three bullets in his breast.",LJ018-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0079.wav,"The unfortunate man survived till he landed, but died in Guy's Hospital.",LJ018-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0080.wav,Sattler was tried for murder and convicted;,LJ018-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0081.wav,"his defense being that he had intended to commit suicide, but that, on the appearance of this officer who had wronged him,",LJ018-0081.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0082.wav,he had yielded to an irresistible impulse to kill him.,LJ018-0082.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0083.wav,Sattler was a very excitable although not an ill-tempered man.,LJ018-0083.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0084.wav,While in Newgate awaiting trial he frequently tried to justify his murder by declaring that the police officer had broken faith with him.,LJ018-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0085.wav,"He would shoot any man or any policeman like a dog, or any number of them, who had treated him in that way.",LJ018-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0086.wav,His demeanor immediately preceding his execution I have referred to in the last chapter.,LJ018-0086.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0087.wav,"Several cases of gigantic fraud, rivaling any already recorded, were brought to light between 1856 and 1873.",LJ018-0087.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0088.wav,I propose next to describe the leading features of the most important of these.,LJ018-0088.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0089.wav,Another case of long-continued successful forgery was brought to light two years after the convictions of Saward and his accomplices.,LJ018-0089.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0090.wav,"This conspiracy was cleverly planned, but had scarcely so many ramifications as that of Saward. Its originators were a couple of men,",LJ018-0090.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0091.wav,"Wagner and Bateman, who had already been convicted of systematic forgery, and sentenced to transportation, but they had been released on ticket-of-leave",LJ018-0091.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0092.wav,in 1856.,LJ018-0092.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0093.wav,"As a blind for their new frauds, they set up as law-stationers in York Buildings, Adelphi, and at once commenced their nefarious traffic.",LJ018-0093.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0094.wav,"Forged cheques and bills were soon uttered in great numbers, as well as base coin.",LJ018-0094.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0095.wav,"The police suspecting the house in York Buildings, put a watch on the premises, which they kept up for more than a year,",LJ018-0095.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0096.wav,"and thus obtained personal knowledge of all who passed in and out, but without obtaining any direct evidence.",LJ018-0096.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0097.wav,"At length a man was caught in the act of passing a forged cheque at the Union Bank,",LJ018-0097.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0098.wav,and recognized as one of the frequenters of the bogus law-stationers. His arrest led to that of others.,LJ018-0098.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0099.wav,"Among them was a man named Chandler, formerly a bill discounter by profession, who by degrees, to meet his extravagant expenditure,",LJ018-0099.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0100.wav,"took to appropriating the bills intrusted to him, and so lost his business, after which he became a clerk to Messrs. Wagner and Bateman.",LJ018-0100.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0101.wav,"Chandler while in Newgate turned informer, and betrayed the whole conspiracy.",LJ018-0101.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0102.wav,"Besides his employers, a jeweler named Humphreys was in the ""swim,"" at whose shop in Red Lion Square was discovered a quantity of base gold",LJ018-0102.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0103.wav,"and silver coins, with all the latest appliances for coining, including those of electroplating;",LJ018-0103.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0104.wav,also a furniture dealer and one or two more commonplace rogues. The arch villain was never taken into custody.,LJ018-0104.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0105.wav,"He, like Saward, was an artist in penmanship.",LJ018-0105.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0106.wav,"He was a German named Kerp,",LJ018-0106.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0107.wav,"eighty years of age, who had spent his whole life in imitating other people's signatures, and had acquired the most consummate skill in the practice.",LJ018-0107.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0108.wav,His copies were generally pronounced indistinguishable from and as good as the originals.,LJ018-0108.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0109.wav,"The aged but wary Kerp, the moment the plot was discovered, vanished, and was never more heard of.",LJ018-0109.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0110.wav,Much the same plan was adopted by these forgers as by Saward to get their cheques cashed.,LJ018-0110.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0111.wav,"They advertised for clerks, and employed the most likely of the applicants by sending them to the bank.",LJ018-0111.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0112.wav,"It was one of these, Glendinning, who had allowed himself to be utilized for some time in this way, whose capture led to the breaking up of the gang.",LJ018-0112.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0113.wav,"The principals in this conspiracy, Wagner and Bateman, were sentenced to penal servitude for life,",LJ018-0113.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0114.wav,the others to twenty and ten years.,LJ018-0114.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0115.wav,"It was stated in evidence that the monies obtained by these forgeries amounted to £8000 or £10,000,",LJ018-0115.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0116.wav,"and that the forged cheques which had been presented, but refused, amounted to double the sum.",LJ018-0116.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0117.wav,"Wagner, after conviction, offered to reveal, for a reward of £3000",LJ018-0117.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0118.wav,a system which had long been in practice of defrauding the Exchequer of vast sums by means of forged stamps.,LJ018-0118.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0119.wav,"His offer was not, however, accepted.",LJ018-0119.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0120.wav,"A more elaborate plot in many ways, more secretly, more patiently prepared than the preceding, or indeed than any in the calendar,",LJ018-0120.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0121.wav,"was the case of the forgeries upon the Bank of England discovered in 1863,",LJ018-0121.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0122.wav,"but not before the forged paper had been put in circulation for more than a couple of years. In 1861,",LJ018-0122.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0123.wav,"a man named Burnett came with his wife and took up his residence at Whitchurch, Hampshire, at no great distance from Laverstock,",LJ018-0123.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0124.wav,where are Messrs. Portal's mills for the manufacture of bank-note paper.,LJ018-0124.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0125.wav,Burnett had only just come out of jail after completing a sentence of penal servitude.,LJ018-0125.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0126.wav,His object in visiting Whitchurch was to undermine the honesty of some workman in the mills;,LJ018-0126.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0127.wav,"and he eventually succeeded, his wife making the first overtures, in persuading a lad named Brown to steal some of the bank paper.",LJ018-0127.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0128.wav,"Brown took several sheets, and then was detected by Brewer, a fellow-workman of superior grade,",LJ018-0128.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0129.wav,"who threatened to betray the theft. But Brewer, either before or after this, succumbed to temptation,",LJ018-0129.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0130.wav,and stole paper on a much larger scale than Brown.,LJ018-0130.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0131.wav,"All that was taken was handed over to Burnett, or a ""woman in black"" whom Brown met by appointment at Waterloo station.",LJ018-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0132.wav,"To facilitate his operations, Brewer obtained a false master key from Burnett,",LJ018-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0133.wav,"which gave him access to all parts of the mills, the packing-room included.",LJ018-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0134.wav,"In this part of the mills a large quantity of bank-note paper was kept at the period of the robbery,",LJ018-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0135.wav,"and in the states known as ""water-leaf"" and ""sized,"" which are the penultimate processes of manufacture.",LJ018-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0136.wav,"One more remains, that of ""glazing,"" without which no paper is issued for engraving.",LJ018-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0137.wav,"None of the stolen paper was glazed, and this was an important clue to the subsequent discovery of the crime.",LJ018-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0138.wav,"Some time in 1862, a large deficiency in stock of bank paper unglazed was discovered at the mills.",LJ018-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0139.wav,Soon afterwards the inspectors of bank-notes at the Bank of England detected the presentation at the bank of spurious notes on genuine paper.,LJ018-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0140.wav,The two facts taken in conjunction,LJ018-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0141.wav,"led to the employment of the police, and the offer of a reward of £1500 for the detection of the offenders.",LJ018-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0142.wav,"By this time Brown alone had stolen three or four hundred sheets,",LJ018-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0143.wav,"each containing two notes, many of the sheets suitable for engraving any kind of note from £1000 downwards.",LJ018-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0144.wav,The amount of Brewer's abstractions (who was eventually acquitted) was never exactly estimated.,LJ018-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0145.wav,"Suspicion appears to have rested on Brown, who had left Laverstock,",LJ018-0145.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0146.wav,and he was soon approached by the police. Almost directly he was questioned he made a clean breast of the whole affair.,LJ018-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0147.wav,"The next step was to take the principals, and under such circumstances as would insure their conviction.",LJ018-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0148.wav,"A watch was set on Burnett, who was followed to the shop of one Buncher, a butcher in Strutton Ground.",LJ018-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0149.wav,"Buncher was then tracked to North Kent Terrace, New Cross, where a Mr. and Mrs. Campbell resided,",LJ018-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0150.wav,with whom he did business in exchanging the false notes.,LJ018-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0151.wav,"The police officers now taxed Mrs. Campbell with complicity, and frightened her into collusion.",LJ018-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0152.wav,With her assistance on a certain day a couple of bricks were taken out of the wall dividing her front and back parlors;,LJ018-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0153.wav,"the officers ensconced themselves in the latter, and waited for Buncher's expected visit.",LJ018-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0154.wav,"He came to complete a sale of forged notes, and he wanted a couple of hundred pounds for what he had.",LJ018-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0155.wav,"Mrs. Campbell offered him less, and there was an altercation, in the course of which Buncher became very violent, and at length,",LJ018-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0156.wav,"after using much intemperate language, he left the place in a huff.",LJ018-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0157.wav,"In the course of his remarks, however, he said,",LJ018-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0158.wav,"I am the man that has got all the bank paper; I have £30,000 now, and the Bank of England cannot stop it.",LJ018-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0159.wav,This was all the police wanted to know.,LJ018-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0160.wav,"They next watched Buncher, and found that he paid frequent visits to Birmingham.",LJ018-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0161.wav,"They also discovered that through the intermediacy of one Robert Cummings, well known as a reputed coiner,",LJ018-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0162.wav,"he had been introduced to a man named Griffiths, an engraver and copper-plate printer.",LJ018-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0163.wav,"Griffiths was an unusually clever and skilful workman,",LJ018-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0164.wav,who had devoted all his talent and all his energies for some seventeen years to the fabrication of false bank-notes.,LJ018-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0165.wav,"On a certain day, the 27th October, 1862, the two were arrested simultaneously;",LJ018-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0166.wav,"Buncher in London, and Griffiths in Birmingham.",LJ018-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0167.wav,"Nothing was found in Buncher's premises in Strutton Ground, which were thoroughly searched,",LJ018-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0168.wav,but proofs of Griffiths' guilt were at once apparent on entering his work-room.,LJ018-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0169.wav,"In one corner was a printing-press actually in use, and on it were twenty-one forged Bank of England notes, without date or signature.",LJ018-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0170.wav,"On the bed were twenty forged ten-pound notes complete and ready for use, and twenty-five five-pound notes.",LJ018-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0171.wav,"Mother plates for engraving the body of the notes lay about, and other plates for various processes.",LJ018-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0172.wav,"More than this, Griffiths took the police to a field where, in a bank, a number of other plates were secreted.",LJ018-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0173.wav,"Griffiths afterwards admitted that he had been employed in defrauding the bank since 1846,",LJ018-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0174.wav,and the prominent part he played secured for him on conviction the heaviest sentence of the law.,LJ018-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0175.wav,"This was penal servitude for life, Buncher's sentence being twenty-five, and Burnett's twenty years.",LJ018-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0176.wav,"Cummings, who had introduced Buncher to Griffiths, was also tried for being in possession of stolen bank paper for improper purposes.",LJ018-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0177.wav,"But as there was no independent corroboration of the informer's evidence, according to the custom of the British law,",LJ018-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0178.wav,"the case was considered not proved, and he was acquitted.",LJ018-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0179.wav,"On his return to Newgate to be finally discharged, Cummings jumped up the stairs and fairly danced for joy.",LJ018-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0180.wav,But he was not long at large; he was too active an evil-doer,LJ018-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0181.wav,"and was perpetually in trouble. Commencing life as a resurrection man, when that trade failed through the change in the law,",LJ018-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0182.wav,and no more bodies were to be bought,LJ018-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0183.wav,"he devoted his energies to coining and forgery, and in the latter line was a friend and associate of Saward's.",LJ018-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0184.wav,"One narrow escape he had, however, before he abandoned his old business.",LJ018-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0185.wav,"A Bow Street officer saw him leaving London in the evening by Camberwell Green, accompanied by two other men.",LJ018-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0186.wav,"It was well known that they were resurrectionists, and a strict watch was kept at all the turnpike gates on the southern roads leading into London.",LJ018-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0187.wav,"An officer was placed for this purpose at New Cross, Camberwell, and Kennington gates.",LJ018-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0188.wav,"Presently ""Old Bob"" drove up to Camberwell Gate in the same cart in which he had been seen to start.",LJ018-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0189.wav,"The officers rushed out to detain him. ""What have you got here? We must search the cart,"" they cry.",LJ018-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0190.wav,"By all means, replies Bob, and a close investigation follows, without any detection of the corpse concealed.",LJ018-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0191.wav,Bob was therefore allowed to pass on.,LJ018-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0192.wav,"But they had the body, all the same; it had been dressed up in decent clothes and made to stand upright in the cart.",LJ018-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0193.wav,With the police officers it had passed muster as a living member of the party.,LJ018-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0194.wav,"Cummings was repeatedly ""run in"" for the offense of coining and uttering bad money, whether coin or notes.",LJ018-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0195.wav,"His regular trade, followed before he took to the life of resurrectionist, was that of an engraver.",LJ018-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0196.wav,"He was a notorious criminal,",LJ018-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0197.wav,"an habitual offender in his own particular line, one who would stick at no trifles to evade detection or escape capture.",LJ018-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0198.wav,"It is told of ""Bob"" Brennan, an official specially employed for years by the Mint",LJ018-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0199.wav,"to watch and prosecute coiners, that he received information that coining was carried on by Cummings and others at a place in Westminster.",LJ018-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0200.wav,"He went there with a posse of officers and forced his way upstairs to the first floor,",LJ018-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0201.wav,"where the coiners, unexpectedly disturbed, fell an easy prey.",LJ018-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0202.wav,But the police nearly paid the penalty of capture with their lives.,LJ018-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0203.wav,"Proceeding cautiously down the stairs, they found that the flooring at the bottom had been taken up.",LJ018-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0204.wav,Where it had lain was a yawning gulf or trap sufficient to do for the whole body of police engaged in the capture.,LJ018-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0205.wav,Cummings was caught shortly afterwards.,LJ018-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0206.wav,"He was a tall, slender man, with a long face and iron-gray hair.",LJ018-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0207.wav,The community of coiners of which he was so notorious a member,LJ018-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0208.wav,"were a low lot, the lowest among criminals except, perhaps, the 'smashers,' or those who passed the counterfeit money.",LJ018-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0209.wav,"It was not easy to detect coiners, or bring home their guilt to them.",LJ018-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0210.wav,Those who manufactured and those who passed had no direct dealings with each other.,LJ018-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0211.wav,"The false coin was bought by an agent from an agent, and dealings were carried on secretly at the ""Clock House"" in Seven Dials.",LJ018-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0212.wav,The annals of fraudulent crime probably contain nothing,LJ018-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0213.wav,which in dramatic interest can compare with the conviction of William Roupell for forgery.,LJ018-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0214.wav,"As the case must still be well remembered by the present generation, it will be necessary to give here only the briefest summary.",LJ018-0214.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0215.wav,"William Roupell was the eldest but illegitimate son of a wealthy man who subsequently married Roupell's mother, and had further legitimate issue.",LJ018-0215.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0216.wav,"William was brought up as an attorney, and became in due course his father's man of business.",LJ018-0216.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0217.wav,As such he had pretty general control over his father's estates and affairs.,LJ018-0217.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0218.wav,In 1855,LJ018-0218.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0219.wav,"he instructed certain solicitors to prepare a deed of gift as from his father, conveying to him estates near Kingston.",LJ018-0219.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0220.wav,"The old gentleman's signature to this deed of gift was a forgery,",LJ018-0220.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0221.wav,"but upon this forged and false conveyance William Roupell, who had already embarked upon a career of wild extravagance,",LJ018-0221.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0222.wav,obtained a mortgage of £7000.,LJ018-0222.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0223.wav,In 1856 the father died.,LJ018-0223.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0224.wav,"It had been supposed up to this date that he had willed his property, amounting in all to upwards of £200,000,",LJ018-0224.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0225.wav,"but after the funeral William Roupell produced another and a later will,",LJ018-0225.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0226.wav,"leaving everything to the widow, and constituting William sole executor.",LJ018-0226.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0227.wav,This will was a deliberate forgery.,LJ018-0227.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0228.wav,"Five or six years later, William Roupell minutely described how he had effected the fraud.",LJ018-0228.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0229.wav,"The day his father died he got the keys of his private bureau, opened it, and took out the authentic will.",LJ018-0229.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0230.wav,"After reading it, and finding this unfavorable to himself, he resolved to carry out his deliberate plan,",LJ018-0230.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0231.wav,"namely, to suppress it and substitute another.",LJ018-0231.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0232.wav,He himself prepared it on a blank form which he had brought with him on purpose.,LJ018-0232.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0233.wav,"To this fraudulent instrument he appended forged signatures, and in due course obtained probate.",LJ018-0233.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0234.wav,"As he possessed nearly unbounded influence over his mother, her accession to the property meant that William could dispose of it as he pleased.",LJ018-0234.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0235.wav,"He embarked forthwith in a career of the wildest extravagance, and ere long he had parted in his mother's name with most of the landed estates.",LJ018-0235.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0236.wav,"One large item of his expenditure was a contested election at Lambeth, which he gained at a cost of £10,000.",LJ018-0236.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0237.wav,"No fortune could stand the inroads he made into his mother's money,",LJ018-0237.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0238.wav,"and in 1862 he was obliged to fly the country, hopelessly and irretrievably ruined.",LJ018-0238.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0239.wav,His disappearance gave color and substance to evil reports already in circulation that the will and conveyance above referred to,LJ018-0239.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0240.wav,"were fictitious documents. His next brother, who should have inherited under the authentic will,",LJ018-0240.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0241.wav,forthwith brought an ejectment on the possessor of lands purchased on the authority of the forged conveyance and will.,LJ018-0241.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0242.wav,"The case was tried at Guildford Assizes, and caused intense excitement,",LJ018-0242.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0243.wav,"the hardship to the holders of these lands being plain, should the allegations of invalidity be made good.",LJ018-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0244.wav,The effect of establishing the forgeries would be to restore to the Roupell family lands for which a price had already been paid,LJ018-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0245.wav,"in all good faith to another, but a criminal member of the family.",LJ018-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0246.wav,"At first the case was contested hotly, but, to the profound astonishment of every one inside and outside the court,",LJ018-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0247.wav,William Roupell himself was brought as a principal witness to clench the case by a confession altogether against himself.,LJ018-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0248.wav,"He told his story with perfect coolness and self-possession, but in a grave and serious tone.",LJ018-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0249.wav,"Every word he uttered was said with consideration, and sometimes with a long pause,",LJ018-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0250.wav,but at the same time with an air of the most entire truthfulness and candor.,LJ018-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0251.wav,"He confessed himself a perjurer in having sworn to the false will, and a wholesale forger, having manufactured no less than ten false signatures",LJ018-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0252.wav,"to deeds involving on the whole some £350,000.",LJ018-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0253.wav,"For these crimes William Roupell was tried at the Central Criminal Court on the 24th September, 1862.",LJ018-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0254.wav,"He declined to plead, but a plea of ""Not Guilty"" was recorded.",LJ018-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0255.wav,The case was easily and rapidly disposed of.,LJ018-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0256.wav,Roupell made a long statement more in exculpation than in his defense.,LJ018-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0257.wav,"He complained that he had at first been the dupe of others, and admitted that he had too readily fallen astray.",LJ018-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0258.wav,"But while repudiating the charges made against him of systematic extravagance and immorality,",LJ018-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0259.wav,"he confessed that his whole life had been a gigantic mistake, and he was ready to make what atonement he could.",LJ018-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0260.wav,"Mr. Justice Byles, in passing sentence, commented severely upon the commission of such crimes by a man in Roupell's position in life,",LJ018-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0261.wav,"and passed the heaviest sentence of the law, transportation for life.",LJ018-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0262.wav,"Roupell received the announcement with a cheerful countenance,",LJ018-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0263.wav,and left the dock with evident satisfaction and relief at the termination of a most painful ordeal.,LJ018-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0264.wav,"Roupell was quiet and submissive while in Newgate, unassuming in manner, and ready to make the best of his position.",LJ018-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0265.wav,"He carried this character with him into penal servitude, and after enduring the full severity of his punishment for several years,",LJ018-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0266.wav,"was at length advanced to the comparative ease of a post much coveted by convicts, that of hospital nurse.",LJ018-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0267.wav,"His uniform good conduct gained him release from Portland on ticket-of-leave in 1882, just twenty years after his conviction.",LJ018-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0268.wav,"A daring and cleverly-planned robbery of diamonds was that of the Tarpeys, man and wife,",LJ018-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0269.wav,"from an assistant of Loudon and Ryder's, the jewelers in Bond Street. The trick was an old one.",LJ018-0269.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0270.wav,"The assistant called with the jewels on approbation at a house specially hired for the purpose in the West End,",LJ018-0270.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0271.wav,"and was rendered insensible by chloroform, after which he was bound and the precious stones stolen.",LJ018-0271.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0272.wav,"Mrs. Tarpey was almost immediately captured and put on her trial, but she was acquitted on the plea that she had acted under the coercion of her husband.",LJ018-0272.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0273.wav,"Tarpey was caught through his wife,",LJ018-0273.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0274.wav,"who was followed, disguised, and with her hair dyed black, to a house in the Marylebone Road, where she met her husband.",LJ018-0274.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0275.wav,"On Tarpey's defense it was stated that the idea of the theft had been suggested to him by a novel, at a time he had lost largely on the turf.",LJ018-0275.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0276.wav,"The first plot was against Mr. Harry Emmanuel, but he escaped, and the attempt was made upon Loudon and Ryder.",LJ018-0276.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0277.wav,The last great case of fraud upon the Bank of England will fitly close this branch of the criminal records of Newgate.,LJ018-0277.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0278.wav,"This was the well and astutely devised plot of the brothers Bidwell,",LJ018-0278.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0279.wav,"assisted by Macdonell and Noyes, all of them citizens of the United States, by which the bank lost upwards of £100,000.",LJ018-0279.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0280.wav,The commercial experience of these clever rogues was cosmopolitan.,LJ018-0280.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0281.wav,Their operations were no less worldwide.,LJ018-0281.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0282.wav,"In 1871 they crossed the Atlantic,",LJ018-0282.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0283.wav,"and by means of forged letters of credit and introduction from London, obtained large sums from continental banks, in Berlin,",LJ018-0283.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0284.wav,"Dresden, Bordeaux, Marseilles, and Lyons.",LJ018-0284.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0285.wav,"With this as capital they came back to England via Buenos Aires,",LJ018-0285.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0286.wav,"and Austin Bidwell opened a bona fide credit in the Burlington or West End branch of the Bank of England,",LJ018-0286.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0287.wav,to which he was introduced by a well-known tailor in Saville Row.,LJ018-0287.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0288.wav,After this the other conspirators traveled to obtain genuine bills and master the system of the leading houses at home and abroad.,LJ018-0288.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0289.wav,"When all was ready, Bidwell first ""refreshed his credit"" at the Bank of England, as well as disarmed suspicion,",LJ018-0289.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0290.wav,"by paying in a genuine bill of Messrs. Rothschilds' for £4500, which was duly discounted.",LJ018-0290.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0291.wav,Then he explained to the bank manager,LJ018-0291.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0292.wav,"that his transactions at Birmingham would shortly be very large, owing to the development of his business there in the alleged manufacture of Pullman cars.",LJ018-0292.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0293.wav,"The ground thus cleared, the forgers poured in from Birmingham numbers of forged acceptances,",LJ018-0293.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0294.wav,"all of which were discounted to the value of £102,217.",LJ018-0294.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0295.wav,The fraud was rendered possible by the absence of a check usual in the United States.,LJ018-0295.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0296.wav,"There such bills would be sent to the drawer to be initialed, and the forgery would have been at once detected.",LJ018-0296.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0297.wav,It was the discovery of this flaw in the banking system which had encouraged the Americans to attempt this crime.,LJ018-0297.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0298.wav,"Time was clearly an important factor in the fraud, hence the bills were sent forward in quick succession.",LJ018-0298.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0299.wav,"Long before they came to maturity the forgers hoped to be well beyond arrest. They had, moreover, sought to destroy all clue.",LJ018-0299.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0300.wav,"The sums obtained by Bidwell in the name of ""Warren"" at the Bank of England",LJ018-0300.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0301.wav,"were lodged at once by drafts to ""Horton,"" another alias, in the Continental Bank.",LJ018-0301.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0302.wav,"For these cash was obtained in notes; the notes were exchanged by one of the conspirators for gold at the Bank of England, and again the same day",LJ018-0302.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0303.wav,"a second conspirator exchanged the gold for notes. But just as all promised well, the frauds were detected through the carelessness of the forgers.",LJ018-0303.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0304.wav,They had omitted to insert the dates in certain bills.,LJ018-0304.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0305.wav,"The bills were sent as a matter of form to the drawer to have the date added, and the forgery was at once detected.",LJ018-0305.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0306.wav,"Noyes was seized without difficulty, as it was a part of the scheme that he should act as the dupe, and remain on the spot in London till all the money was obtained.",LJ018-0306.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0307.wav,"Through Noyes the rest of the conspirators were eventually apprehended. Very little if any of the ill-gotten proceeds, however, was ever recovered.",LJ018-0307.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0308.wav,"Large sums, as they were realized, were transmitted to the United States, and invested in various American securities,",LJ018-0308.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0309.wav,where probably the money still remains.,LJ018-0309.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0310.wav,"The prisoners, who were committed to Newgate for trial,",LJ018-0310.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0311.wav,"had undoubtedly the command of large funds while there, and would have readily disbursed it to effect their enlargement.",LJ018-0311.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0312.wav,"A plot was soon discovered,",LJ018-0312.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0313.wav,"deep laid, and with many ramifications, by which some of the Newgate warders were to be bribed to allow the prisoners to escape from their cells at night.",LJ018-0313.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0314.wav,"Certain friends of the prisoners were watched, and found to be in communication with these warders,",LJ018-0314.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0315.wav,to whom it was said £100 apiece had been given down as the price of their infidelity.,LJ018-0315.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0316.wav,Further sums were to have been paid after the escape;,LJ018-0316.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0317.wav,"and one warder admitted that he was to have £1000 more paid to him, and to be provided with a passage to Australia.",LJ018-0317.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0318.wav,"The vigilance of the Newgate officials, assisted by the city police, completely frustrated this plot.",LJ018-0318.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0319.wav,"A second was nevertheless set on foot,",LJ018-0319.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0320.wav,"in which the plan of action was changed, and the freedom of the prisoners was to be obtained by means of a rescue from the dock during the trial.",LJ018-0320.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0321.wav,An increase of policemen on duty sufficed to prevent any attempt of this kind.,LJ018-0321.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0322.wav,Nor were these two abortive efforts all that were planned.,LJ018-0322.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0323.wav,"A year or two after, when the prisoners were undergoing their life sentences of penal servitude,",LJ018-0323.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0324.wav,much uneasiness was caused at one of the convict prisons by information that bribery on a large scale was again at work amongst the officials.,LJ018-0324.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0325.wav,"But extra precautions and close supervision have so far proved effectual, and the prisoners are still in custody after a lapse of ten years.",LJ018-0325.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0326.wav,I propose to end at this point the detailed account of the more prominent criminal cases which lodged their perpetrators in Newgate.,LJ018-0326.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0327.wav,The most recent affairs are still too fresh in the public mind to need more than a passing reference.,LJ018-0327.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0328.wav,Few of the Newgate notorieties of late years show any marked peculiarities;,LJ018-0328.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0329.wav,"their crimes follow in the lines of others already found, and often more than once, in the calendars.",LJ018-0329.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0330.wav,Violent passions too easily aroused prompted the Frenchwoman Marguerite Dixblanc,LJ018-0330.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0331.wav,"to murder her mistress, Madame Riel, in Park Lane, as Courvoisier, the Swiss, had been tempted to murder Lord William Russell.",LJ018-0331.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0332.wav,Greed in the latter case was a secondary motive;,LJ018-0332.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0333.wav,"it was the principal incentive with Kate Webster, that fierce and brutal female savage who took the life of her mistress at Richmond.",LJ018-0333.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0334.wav,"Webster, it may be mentioned here, was one of the worst prisoners ever remembered in Newgate",LJ018-0334.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0335.wav,"most violent in temper, and addicted to the most frightful language.",LJ018-0335.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0336.wav,"Webster's devices for disposing of the body of her victim will call to mind those of Theodore Gardelle,",LJ018-0336.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0337.wav,"of Good, and Greenacre, and Catherine Hayes.",LJ018-0337.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0338.wav,"Greed in another form led the Stauntons to make away with Mrs. Patrick Staunton, murdering her with devilish cruelty by slow degrees.",LJ018-0338.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0339.wav,"The judge, Sir Henry Hawkins, in passing sentence",LJ018-0339.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0340.wav,characterized this as a crime more black and hideous than any in the criminal annals of the country.,LJ018-0340.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0341.wav,"But it was scarcely worse than that of Mrs. Brownrigg, or that of the Meteyards, both of whom did their helpless apprentices to death.",LJ018-0341.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0342.wav,It was to effect the rupture of an irksome tie that led Henry Wainwright to murder Harriet Lane deliberately and in cold blood.,LJ018-0342.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0343.wav,"In this case the tie was unsanctified, but it was not more inconvenient than that which urged Greenacre to a similar crime.",LJ018-0343.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0344.wav,In cold-blooded premeditation it rivaled that of the Mannings.,LJ018-0344.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0345.wav,"As in that case, the grave had been dug long in anticipation, and the chloride of lime purchased to destroy the corpse.",LJ018-0345.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0346.wav,"Henry Wainwright's attempt to get rid of the body was ingenious, but not original,",LJ018-0346.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0347.wav,and the circumstances which led to detection were scarcely novel proofs of the old adage that murder will out.,LJ018-0347.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0348.wav,"Henry Wainwright's impassioned denial of his crime, even after it had been brought fully home to him, has many parallels in the criminal records.",LJ018-0348.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0349.wav,"His disclaimer, distinct and detailed on every point, was intended simply for effect.",LJ018-0349.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0350.wav,"He might swear he was not the murderer, that he never fired a pistol in his life,",LJ018-0350.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0351.wav,"and that, in spite of the verdict of the jury, ""he left the dock with a calm and quiet conscience;""",LJ018-0351.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0352.wav,"but there was no doubt of his guilt, as the Lord Chief Justice told him, while expressing great regret at his rash assertion.",LJ018-0352.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0353.wav,Wainwright's demeanor after sentence has been described in the last chapter.,LJ018-0353.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0354.wav,"Doubts were long entertained whether Thomas Wainwright,",LJ018-0354.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0355.wav,"who was convicted as an accessory after the fact, had not really taken an active part in the murder.",LJ018-0355.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0356.wav,But a conversation overheard between the two brothers in Newgate satisfactorily exonerated Thomas Wainwright.,LJ018-0356.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0357.wav,Poisoning has still its victims.,LJ018-0357.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0358.wav,"Christina Edmunds had resort to strychnia, the same lethal drug that Palmer used;",LJ018-0358.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0359.wav,"her object being first to dispose of the wife of a man for whom she had conceived a guilty passion,",LJ018-0359.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0360.wav,"then to divert suspicion from herself by throwing it on a confectioner, whose sweetmeats she bought,",LJ018-0360.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0361.wav,"tampered with, and returned to the shop.",LJ018-0361.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0362.wav,"The trial of Miss Edmunds was transferred to the Central Criminal Court under Lord Campbell's Act, already referred to.",LJ018-0362.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ018-0363.wav,She was found guilty.,LJ018-0363.wav | |