audio,transcription,file_name
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0087.wav,"Among the escapes still remembered was one in 1849, accomplished by a man who had been employed",LJ016-0087.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0088.wav,working at the roof of the chapel on the female side.,LJ016-0088.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0089.wav,He was engaged in whitewashing and cleaning; the officer who had him in charge left him on the stairs leading to the gallery.,LJ016-0089.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0090.wav,"Taking advantage of being unobserved, he got out through the roof on to the leads, and traveled along them towards No. 1, Newgate Street.",LJ016-0090.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0091.wav,This was a public-house.,LJ016-0091.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0092.wav,"He stepped in at a garret window, coolly walked downstairs, and entered the bar.",LJ016-0092.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0093.wav,"They asked him how he had cut his hand, which was bleeding, and he said he had done it while working up on the roof.",LJ016-0093.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0094.wav,"No further notice was taken of him; no one seemingly suspected that he was a prisoner, and he was suffered to walk off without let or hindrance.",LJ016-0094.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0095.wav,In 1853 three men escaped in company from one of the wards in the middle yard.,LJ016-0095.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0096.wav,"They were penal servitude men, their names Bell, Brown, and Barry, and they were awaiting transfer to Leicester,",LJ016-0096.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0097.wav,"which with Wakefield was utilized as a receptacle for convicts not going to Western Australia,",LJ016-0097.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0098.wav,"or any of the new establishments at home, at Portland, Dartmoor, or elsewhere.",LJ016-0098.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0099.wav,"These men managed to cut a hole in the ceiling of the ward near the iron cage on the landing, and so got access to the roof.",LJ016-0099.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0100.wav,At that time rope mats were still used as beds.,LJ016-0100.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0101.wav,"One of the three, shamming ill, remained all day in his ward, where he employed himself unraveling the rope from the sleeping-mats.",LJ016-0101.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0102.wav,"By evening he manufactured a good long length,",LJ016-0102.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0103.wav,"and after all was quiet the three got on to the roof through the hole, and so on to Tyler's manufactory close by,",LJ016-0103.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0104.wav,whence they let themselves down into the street by the rope.,LJ016-0104.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0105.wav,"These men were all in prison dress at the time of their escape, but one of their number, Bell, sent back his clothes a few days later by parcel's delivery,",LJ016-0105.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0106.wav,"with a civil note to the governor, saying he had no further use for them. All three fugitives were recaptured,",LJ016-0106.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0107.wav,"Brown almost at once; then Barry, who was taken at the East End in a public-house where he had arranged to meet a pal.",LJ016-0107.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0108.wav,"The Newgate officers obtained information of this, and went to the spot, where they effected the capture,",LJ016-0108.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0109.wav,but not till they had had an exciting chase down the street.,LJ016-0109.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0110.wav,"The third, Bell, remained longest at large. He too was run into at a lodging in the Kingsland Road.",LJ016-0110.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0111.wav,"The officers dropped on to him while he was still in bed, but as they came upstairs he jumped up and hid in a cupboard.",LJ016-0111.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0112.wav,"All three after recapture passed on, as originally intended, to Leicester, where they did their ""bit"" and were released;",LJ016-0112.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0113.wav,"but only to be taken soon afterwards for a fresh offense, and again pass through Newgate with sentences of penal servitude.",LJ016-0113.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0114.wav,"A later case was still more remarkable, as it was effected after the alteration of the prison and its reconstruction on the newest lines.",LJ016-0114.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0115.wav,"A sailor, Krapps by name, occupied one of the upper cells in the new block.",LJ016-0115.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0116.wav,"The doors, through incomplete knowledge of prison needs, were not, as now, sheeted with iron.",LJ016-0116.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0117.wav,"The prisoner had nothing to deal with but wooden panels, and by dint of cutting and chopping he got both the lower panels out.",LJ016-0117.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0118.wav,"Through the aperture he crept out on to the landing at the dead of night, and so down into the central space of the building.",LJ016-0118.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0119.wav,"Under superior orders all the doors and gates of this block were left open at night, to allow the night watchman to pass freely to all parts.",LJ016-0119.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0120.wav,This was considered safer than intrusting him with keys.,LJ016-0120.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0121.wav,"Krapps walked at once into the yard and across to the female side, where he found some of the washing still hanging out to dry.",LJ016-0121.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0122.wav,"He made a strong rope with several of the sheets; then, returning to the male yard,",LJ016-0122.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0123.wav,"got hold of the step ladder used in lighting the gas, and which under our more careful supervision would have been, as now-a-days, chained up.",LJ016-0123.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0124.wav,"Cutting the cord which fastened the two legs of the step ladder, he opened them out and made one long length;",LJ016-0124.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0125.wav,"with this, placed against the wall near the chevaux-de-frise, he made an escalade.",LJ016-0125.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0126.wav,The top of the wall was gained without difficulty.,LJ016-0126.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0127.wav,"Along this Krapps crawled, and then dropped down on to the cook-house.",LJ016-0127.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0128.wav,"He now put in requisition the rope made of the sheets, and with its help lowered himself into the street.",LJ016-0128.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0129.wav,"Down below were market-carts waiting for daylight, and among them Krapps found a refuge and friends.",LJ016-0129.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0130.wav,"The first intimation of his escape was afforded by the police, who informed the prison authorities next day that a rope was hanging down from the cook-house roof.",LJ016-0130.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0131.wav,Nothing more was heard of Krapps. The curious thing in his case was that his offense was a trifling one;,LJ016-0131.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0132.wav,"he was still untried, but would almost certainly have escaped with a minor penalty, say of three or four months' imprisonment.",LJ016-0132.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0133.wav,"There is, however, no explanation of the motives which prompt prisoners to attempt escapes.",LJ016-0133.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0134.wav,"Cases well authenticated have been known of men who had all but completed their sentences, and for whom the prison gates would open within a few days,",LJ016-0134.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0135.wav,who yet faced extraordinary risks to advance their enlargement by only a few hours.,LJ016-0135.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0136.wav,"On the other hand, at the great convict establishments, such is the moral restraint of a systematic discipline,",LJ016-0136.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0137.wav,"that numbers of men, ""lifers,"" and others with ten, fourteen, or twenty years to do, can be trusted to work out of doors without bolts and bars",LJ016-0137.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0138.wav,at a distance from the prison.,LJ016-0138.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0139.wav,"The last escape from Newgate was only three years ago, and occurred just before the final closing of the prison.",LJ016-0139.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0140.wav,"No report of it was made public, as the man was almost immediately recaptured.",LJ016-0140.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0141.wav,"He was at work under the supervision of the artisan warder of the prison,",LJ016-0141.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0142.wav,"who permitted him to go up on to the roof of the old wards, in order to throw water for flushing purposes down a shoot.",LJ016-0142.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0143.wav,"He was out of sight while so employed, and remained so long absent that the warder, becoming uneasy, went in search of him.",LJ016-0143.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0144.wav,He had disappeared.,LJ016-0144.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0145.wav,"Encouraged by the shouts and signals of some workmen employed on a building outside, the prisoner made one of the most marvellous jumps on record,",LJ016-0145.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0146.wav,"from the building he was on to a distant wall, with a drop of sixty feet between.",LJ016-0146.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0147.wav,"Then he ran along the coping of the wall towards its angle with Tyler's manufactory, and dropped down on to the gridiron below.",LJ016-0147.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0148.wav,"This was not strong enough to carry him, and he fell through.",LJ016-0148.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0149.wav,"Suicides and executions were, however, always the most effectual methods of making exit from durance.",LJ016-0149.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0150.wav,"Suicides at Newgate were numerous enough, but they seldom possessed any novel or unusual features;",LJ016-0150.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0151.wav,"prison suicides seldom do, except as regards ingenuity and determination.",LJ016-0151.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0152.wav,"Only great resolution indeed, persisted in to the bitter end,",LJ016-0152.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0153.wav,"would make death a certainty, so limited and imperfect are the means generally available.",LJ016-0153.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0154.wav,"When a bit of rope carefully secreted,",LJ016-0154.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0155.wav,"braces, shoe-strings, shirt torn into strips are the only instruments, and a bar or small hook",LJ016-0155.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0156.wav,"at no elevation affords the only drop, strangulation would seldom supervene but for the resolution of the miserable felo de se.",LJ016-0156.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0157.wav,One curious instance of a suicide carried out under the most adverse and extraordinary circumstances may be quoted.,LJ016-0157.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0158.wav,"It was that of a ""Long Firm"" swindler, by name Johnson,",LJ016-0158.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0159.wav,who contrived to hang himself from a hammock hook only eighteen inches from the ground.,LJ016-0159.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0160.wav,"The noose was one of his hammock straps, which he buckled round his throat.",LJ016-0160.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0161.wav,"Having carefully spread out a blanket on the floor just below the hammock as it lay suspended,",LJ016-0161.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0162.wav,"he fastened one end of the strap above mentioned to the hook, and then fell down.",LJ016-0162.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0163.wav,He might have saved himself at any moment by merely extending an arm; but he lay there patiently till death supervened.,LJ016-0163.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0164.wav,"When discovered next morning, quite dead, it was found that the strap actually did not touch his throat;",LJ016-0164.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0165.wav,"three fingers might have been inserted between it and the flesh; the pressure was all on the arteries behind the ears,",LJ016-0165.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0166.wav,and surgical opinion stated that the stoppage of circulation was the cause of death.,LJ016-0166.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0167.wav,Probably dissolution came as easily and almost without pain.,LJ016-0167.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0168.wav,A laudable desire to invest executions with more and more solemnity and decorum gained ground as they became more rare.,LJ016-0168.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0169.wav,"As more humane principles were introduced into prison management,",LJ016-0169.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0170.wav,"greater attention was paid to the capital convicts, and the horrors of their situation while awaiting sentence",LJ016-0170.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0171.wav,were as far as possible mitigated and toned down. But there was little improvement in the ceremony itself.,LJ016-0171.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0172.wav,"There were still untoward accidents occasionally at executions, and even the chief practitioner of recent times, Calcraft,",LJ016-0172.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0173.wav,was not always to be trusted to do his fell work efficiently.,LJ016-0173.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0174.wav,"Having mentioned Calcraft's name,",LJ016-0174.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0175.wav,I may be permitted to digress for a moment to give a few particulars concerning the last officially appointed hangman of the city of London.,LJ016-0175.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0176.wav,After Calcraft's resignation no successor was really appointed.,LJ016-0176.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0177.wav,"Marwood, whose name is so familiar with the present generation,",LJ016-0177.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0178.wav,"had no official status, and was merely an operator selected by the Corporation, and who, on the strength of it,",LJ016-0178.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0179.wav,contracted with sheriffs and conveners to work by the job.,LJ016-0179.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0180.wav,"But Calcraft regularly succeeded Foxen, who followed Botting, and Dennis, the actor in the 1780 riots.",LJ016-0180.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0181.wav,"Calcraft was born at Baddow, in Essex, in 1800;",LJ016-0181.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0182.wav,"he was a shoemaker by trade, and settled in London after his marriage in 1825.",LJ016-0182.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0183.wav,"The story goes, that about 1828",LJ016-0183.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0184.wav,"his attention was drawn early one morning to a man who leant against a lamp-post in Finsbury Square, coughing violently.",LJ016-0184.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0185.wav,"Calcraft, who, in spite of the dreadful calling he subsequently followed, was always reputed a kindly man,",LJ016-0185.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0186.wav,invited the man with the cough to enter a neighboring house and try a little peppermint for it.,LJ016-0186.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0187.wav,"The other accepted, and they got into conversation.",LJ016-0187.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0188.wav,"He told Calcraft that he was Foxen the executioner, and that he was that moment on his way to Newgate to hang a man,",LJ016-0188.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0189.wav,but that his cough was getting so much the master of him that he feared he would not be able to carry on his duties much longer.,LJ016-0189.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0190.wav,"I have no idea who the sheriffs will get to do the work after me, said Foxen, adding that his assistant, Tom Cheshire,",LJ016-0190.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0191.wav,"was given to drink, and not to be trusted.",LJ016-0191.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0192.wav,"I think I could do that sort of job, said Calcraft, on the spur of the moment.",LJ016-0192.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0193.wav,"Foxen asked him his name and address, and went away.",LJ016-0193.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0194.wav,"Calcraft thought no more of what had occurred till the next sessions at the Old Bailey, when the sheriffs sent for him,",LJ016-0194.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0195.wav,and offered him the post of executioner for the city of London and Middlesex.,LJ016-0195.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0196.wav,"He accepted, having at first Tom Cheshire as his assistant, then for a time, when Cheshire was dismissed for drunkenness, a man named Osborne.",LJ016-0196.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0197.wav,After that he worked alone.,LJ016-0197.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0198.wav,"I cannot find that Calcraft was sworn in when appointed, or any exact information when the old forbidding ceremony ceased to be practiced.",LJ016-0198.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0199.wav,"It was customary to make the executioner take the Bible in his hand, and swear solemnly that he would dispatch every criminal condemned to die,",LJ016-0199.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0200.wav,without favoring father or mother or any other relation or friend.,LJ016-0200.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0201.wav,"When he had taken the oath he was dismissed with the words, ""Get thee hence, wretch!""",LJ016-0201.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0202.wav,"Calcraft's emoluments were a guinea per week, and an extra guinea for every execution.",LJ016-0202.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0203.wav,"He got besides half-a-crown for every man he flogged, and an allowance to provide cats or birch rods.",LJ016-0203.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0204.wav,For acting as executioner of Horsemonger Lane Jail,LJ016-0204.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0205.wav,"he received a retaining fee of £5, 5 shillings, with the usual guinea for each job;",LJ016-0205.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0206.wav,"he was also at liberty to engage himself in the country, where he demanded and was paid £10 on each occasion.",LJ016-0206.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0207.wav,"It was not always easy to get a hangman so cheap, as I have already indicated on a previous page.",LJ016-0207.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0208.wav,The onus and responsibility of carrying out the sentence is personal to the sheriff. A good story is told illustrating this.,LJ016-0208.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0209.wav,Some wags in Scotland seized Calcraft and kept him in durance the night before the execution.,LJ016-0209.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0210.wav,"Meanwhile the convener or sheriff was in despair, expecting that, failing the executioner, he would have to do the job himself.",LJ016-0210.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0211.wav,"But, fortunately for him, just at the last moment Calcraft was set free.",LJ016-0211.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0212.wav,"Calcraft's salary was more than the proverbial ""thirteenpence halfpenny -- hangman's wages.""",LJ016-0212.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0213.wav,"The origin of this expression dates, it is said, from the time when the Scottish mark,",LJ016-0213.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0214.wav,"a silver coin bearing the same relation to the Scottish pound that an English shilling does to an English pound, was made to pass current in England.",LJ016-0214.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0215.wav,"The mark was valued at thirteenpence halfpenny, or rather more than the shilling, which from time immemorial had been the hangman's wages.",LJ016-0215.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0216.wav,"That very ancient perquisite the convict's clothes was never claimed by Calcraft, and it may be doubted whether he was entitled to it.",LJ016-0216.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0217.wav,"On one particular occasion, however, he got them. A gentleman whose sins brought him to the gallows at Maidstone",LJ016-0217.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0218.wav,"wished to do Calcraft a good turn, and sent to his London tailor for a complete new suit, in which he appeared at his execution.",LJ016-0218.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0219.wav,"He expressly bequeathed them to Calcraft, who was graciously pleased to accept them.",LJ016-0219.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0220.wav,"On another occasion an importunate person begged Calcraft eagerly to claim his right to the clothes, and give them to him.",LJ016-0220.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0221.wav,"Calcraft consented, got and bestowed the clothes, only to find that the person he had obliged exhibited them publicly.",LJ016-0221.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0222.wav,It may be added that of late years the clothes in which a convict has suffered are invariably burnt.,LJ016-0222.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0223.wav,"Capital convicts go to the gallows in their own clothing, and not in prison dress, unless the former is quite unfit to be worn.",LJ016-0223.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0224.wav,"Calcraft shared the odium which his office, not strangely, has always inspired. But he was admitted into the jail,",LJ016-0224.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0225.wav,"which his predecessors were not, and who were paid their wages over the gate to obviate the necessity for letting them enter.",LJ016-0225.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0226.wav,"To this curious etiquette was due the appointment of an official whose office has long since disappeared, ""the yeoman of the halter,""",LJ016-0226.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0227.wav,"whose business it was to provide the rope and do the pinioning, and who was paid a fee of five shillings.",LJ016-0227.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0228.wav,"They did not dislike Calcraft, however, at Newgate. He was an illiterate, simple-minded man, who scarcely remembered what executions he had performed.",LJ016-0228.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0229.wav,"He kept no record of them, and when asked questions, referred to the officers of the jail.",LJ016-0229.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0230.wav,His nature must have been kindly.,LJ016-0230.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0231.wav,"When he came to the prison for his wages his grandchildren often accompanied him, affectionately clinging to his hands;",LJ016-0231.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0232.wav,and he owned a pet pony which would follow him about like a dog.,LJ016-0232.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0233.wav,In his own profession,LJ016-0233.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0234.wav,"he was not unskilful, but he proceeded entirely by rule of thumb, leaving the result very much to chance and the strength of the rope.",LJ016-0234.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0235.wav,"He was so much in favor of short drops that his immediate successor, Marwood, stigmatized him as ""short-drop"" man.",LJ016-0235.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0236.wav,"Marwood being, on the other hand, in favor of giving a man as much rope as possible.",LJ016-0236.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0237.wav,"With Calcraft's method there were undoubtedly many failures, and it was a common custom for him to go below the gallows",LJ016-0237.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0238.wav,"just to steady their legs a little; in other words, to add his weight to that of the hanging bodies.",LJ016-0238.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0239.wav,"Marwood till latterly seemed to have done his work more effectually, and has been known to give as much as six feet fall.",LJ016-0239.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0240.wav,"This generally produces instantaneous death, although cases where complete fracture of the spinal cord occurred are said to be rare.",LJ016-0240.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0241.wav,"Calcraft served the city of London till 1874, when he was pensioned at the rate of twenty-five shillings per week.",LJ016-0241.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0242.wav,"The last execution at which he acted was that of Godwin, on the 25th May, 1874.",LJ016-0242.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0243.wav,"Marwood, who succeeded him, and who died while these sheets were in the press, was a Lincolnshire man, a native of Horncastle,",LJ016-0243.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0244.wav,"who first took to the work from predilection, and the idea of being useful in his generation, as he himself assured the writer of these pages.",LJ016-0244.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0245.wav,Until the time of his death he kept a small shop close to the church in Horncastle.,LJ016-0245.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0246.wav,"Over the door, in gilt letters, were the words ""Crown Office""; in the window was a pile of official envelopes, ostentatiously displayed,",LJ016-0246.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0247.wav,"while round about were shoe-strings, boot-laces, and lasts. Marwood, strange to say, followed the same trade as Calcraft.",LJ016-0247.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0248.wav,"Marwood was proud of his calling, and when questioned as to whether his process was satisfactory, replied that he heard ""no complaints.""",LJ016-0248.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0249.wav,The strange competition amongst hundreds to succeed Marwood is a strange fact too recently before the public to need mention here.,LJ016-0249.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0250.wav,"It may, however, be remarked that the wisdom of appointing any regular hangman is very open to question,",LJ016-0250.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0251.wav,"and must be strongly deprecated on moral grounds, as tending to the utter degradation of one individual.",LJ016-0251.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0252.wav,Possibly such changes may be introduced into the method of execution,LJ016-0252.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0253.wav,"that the ceremony may be made more mechanical, thus rendering the personal intervention of a skilled functionary unnecessary.",LJ016-0253.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0254.wav,"Executions long continued to be in public, in spite of remonstrance and reprobation.",LJ016-0254.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0255.wav,"The old prejudices, such as that which enlisted Dr. Johnson on the side of the Tyburn procession, still lingered and prevented any change.",LJ016-0255.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0256.wav,"It was thought that capital punishment would lose its deterrent effect if it ceased to be public,",LJ016-0256.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0257.wav,"and the raison d'être of the penalty, which in principle so many opposed, would be gone.",LJ016-0257.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0258.wav,This line of argument prevailed over the manifest horrors of the spectacle. These increased as time passed.,LJ016-0258.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0259.wav,"The graphic and terrible account given by Charles Dickens of the awful scene before Horsemonger Lane Jail, at the execution of the Mannings,",LJ016-0259.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0260.wav,"has already been quoted. Again, the concourse of people collected in front of Newgate to witness the execution,",LJ016-0260.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0261.wav,"simultaneously, of the five pirates, part of the mutinous crew of the 'Flowery Land,' was greater than on any previous occasion.",LJ016-0261.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0262.wav,"It was a callous, careless crowd of coarse-minded, semi-brutalized folk, who came to enjoy themselves.",LJ016-0262.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0263.wav,"Few, if any, showed any feeling of terror, none were impressed with the solemnity, or realized the warning which the sight conveyed.",LJ016-0263.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0264.wav,The upturned faces of the eager spectators resembled those of the 'gods' at Drury Lane on Boxing Night;,LJ016-0264.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0265.wav,the crowd had come to witness a popular and gratuitous public performance -- better than a prize-fight or a play.,LJ016-0265.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0266.wav,No notion that they were assisting at a vindication of the law filled the minds of those present with dread.,LJ016-0266.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0267.wav,"On the contrary, the prevailing sentiment was one of satisfaction at the success of the spectacle.",LJ016-0267.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0268.wav,The remarks heard amongst the crowd were of coarse approval.,LJ016-0268.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0271.wav,"The reply evinced equal satisfaction, and the speaker, with a profane oath, declared that he would like to act as Jack Ketch to the whole lot.",LJ016-0271.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0272.wav,"To the disgrace of the better-educated and better-bred public, executions could still command the attendance of curious aristocrats from the West End.",LJ016-0272.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0273.wav,"At Müller's execution there was great competition for front seats,",LJ016-0273.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0274.wav,"and the windows of the opposite houses, which commanded a good view, as usual fetched high prices.",LJ016-0274.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0275.wav,As much as £25 was paid for a first-floor front on this occasion.,LJ016-0275.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0276.wav,"Never, indeed, had an execution been more generally patronized.",LJ016-0276.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0277.wav,"This is proved by contemporary accounts, especially one graphic and realistic article which appeared in the 'Times,'",LJ016-0277.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0278.wav,"and which contributed in no small degree to the introduction of private executions. A great crowd was expected, and a great crowd came.",LJ016-0278.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0279.wav,They collected over night in the bright light of a November moon.,LJ016-0279.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0280.wav,"There were well-dressed and ill-dressed, old men and lads, women and girls.",LJ016-0280.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0281.wav,"Rain fell heavily at intervals, but did not thin the concourse.",LJ016-0281.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0282.wav,"Till three o'clock it was one long revelry of songs and laughter, shouting, and often quarreling, though,|Till three o'clock it was one long revelry of songs and laughter, shouting, and often quarreling, though,",LJ016-0282.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0283.wav,"to do them mere justice, there was at least till then a half-drunken ribald gaiety among the crowd that made them all akin.""",LJ016-0283.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0284.wav,"There were preachers among the crowd, but they could not get a patient hearing.",LJ016-0284.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0285.wav,"Then one struck up the hymn of the Promised Land, and the refrain was at once taken up with a mighty chorus --",LJ016-0285.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0286.wav,"Oh, my! Think I've got to die.",LJ016-0286.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0287.wav,This was presently superseded by a fresh catch --,LJ016-0287.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0288.wav,"Müller, Müller, He's the man, till a diversion was created by the appearance of the gallows, which was received with continuous yells.",LJ016-0288.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0289.wav,As day broke the character of the crowd was betrayed.,LJ016-0289.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0290.wav,"There were but few women, except of the most degraded sort; the men were mostly young men --",LJ016-0290.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0291.wav,"sharpers, thieves, gamblers, betting men, the outsiders of the boxing ring,",LJ016-0291.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0292.wav,"bricklayers' laborers, dock workmen, German artisans and sugar-bakers",LJ016-0292.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0293.wav,"with the rakings of cheap singing-halls and billiard-rooms, the fast young men of London.",LJ016-0293.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0294.wav,"But all, whether young or old, men or women, seemed to know nothing, feel nothing, to have no object but the gallows, and to laugh,",LJ016-0294.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0295.wav,"curse, or shout, as in this heaving and struggling forward they gained or lost in their strong efforts to get nearer where Müller was to die.",LJ016-0295.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0296.wav,The actual execution made some impression.,LJ016-0296.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0297.wav,The crowd was for a moment awed and stilled by the quiet rapid passage from life to death!,LJ016-0297.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0298.wav,"But before ""the slight slow vibrations of the body had well ended,",LJ016-0298.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0299.wav,"robbery and violence, loud laughing, oaths, fighting, obscene conduct, and still more filthy language reigned round the gallows far and near.",LJ016-0299.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0300.wav,"Such too the scene remained with little change or respite till the old hangman (Calcraft) slunk again along the drop,",LJ016-0300.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0301.wav,amid hisses and sneering inquiries of what he had had to drink that morning.,LJ016-0301.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0302.wav,"He, after failing once to cut the rope, made a second attempt more successfully, and the body of Müller disappeared from view.",LJ016-0302.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0303.wav,"It was preposterous to claim for such a scene as this that it conveyed any great moral lesson, or had any deterring influence.",LJ016-0303.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0304.wav,Numbers of humane and thoughtful persons had long been convinced of this.,LJ016-0304.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0305.wav,"Already the urgent necessity for abolishing public executions had been brought before the House of Commons by Mr. Hibbert,",LJ016-0305.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0306.wav,"and the question, as part of the whole subject of capital punishment, had been referred to a royal commission in January 1864.",LJ016-0306.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0307.wav,"Full evidence was taken on all points, and on that regarding public executions there was a great preponderance of opinion towards their abolition,",LJ016-0307.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0308.wav,yet the witnesses were not unanimous.,LJ016-0308.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0309.wav,Some of the judges would have retained the public spectacle; the ordinary of Newgate was not certain that public executions were not the best.,LJ016-0309.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0310.wav,Another distinguished witness feared,LJ016-0310.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0311.wav,"that any secrecy in the treatment of the condemned would invest them with a new and greater interest, which was much to be deprecated.",LJ016-0311.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0312.wav,"Foreign witnesses, too, were in favor of publicity.",LJ016-0312.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0313.wav,"On the other hand, Lords Cranworth and Wensleydale recommended private executions; so did Mr. Spencer Walpole, M.P.",LJ016-0313.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0314.wav,Sir George Grey thought there was a growing feeling in favor of executions within the prison precincts.,LJ016-0314.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0315.wav,"Colonel (now Sir Edmund) Henderson was strongly in favor of them,",LJ016-0315.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0316.wav,"based on his experience of them in Western Australia. He not only thought them likely to be more deterrent,",LJ016-0316.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0317.wav,but believed that a public ceremony destroyed the whole value of an execution.,LJ016-0317.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0318.wav,"Other officials, great lawyers, governors of prisons, and chaplains supported this view.",LJ016-0318.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0319.wav,"The only doubts expressed were as to the sufficiency of the safeguards, as to the certainty of death and its subsequent publication.",LJ016-0319.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0320.wav,"But these, it was thought, might be provided by the admission of the press and the holding of a coroner's inquest.",LJ016-0320.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0321.wav,"Duly impressed with the weight of evidence in favor of abolition,",LJ016-0321.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0322.wav,"the commission recommended that death sentences should be carried out within the jail, under such regulations as might be considered necessary",LJ016-0322.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0323.wav,"to prevent abuse, and satisfy the public that the law had been complied with.",LJ016-0323.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0324.wav,But it is curious to note that there were several dissentients among the commissioners to this paragraph of the report.,LJ016-0324.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0325.wav,"The judge of the Admiralty Court, the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, the Right Hon. James Moncrieff,",LJ016-0325.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0326.wav,"Lord Advocate, Mr. Charles Neate, Mr. William Ewart, and last, but not least, Mr. John Bright",LJ016-0326.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0327.wav,declared that they were not prepared to agree to the resolution respecting private executions.,LJ016-0327.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0328.wav,"Nevertheless, in the very next session",LJ016-0328.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0329.wav,"a bill was introduced by Mr. Hibbert, M.P., and accepted by the Government, providing for the future carrying out of executions within prisons.",LJ016-0329.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0330.wav,"It was read for the first time in March 1866, but did not become law till 1868.",LJ016-0330.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0331.wav,"The last public execution in front of Newgate was that of the Fenian Michael Barrett,",LJ016-0331.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0332.wav,"who was convicted of complicity in the Clerkenwell explosion, intended to effect the release of Burke and Casey",LJ016-0332.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0333.wav,"from Clerkenwell prison, by which many persons lost their lives.",LJ016-0333.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0334.wav,"Unusual precautions were taken upon this occasion, as some fresh outrage was apprehended.",LJ016-0334.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0335.wav,"There was no interference with the crowd, which collected as usual, although not to the customary extent.",LJ016-0335.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0336.wav,"But Newgate and its neighborhood was carefully held by the police, both city and metropolitan.",LJ016-0336.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0337.wav,In the houses opposite the prison numbers of detectives mixed with the spectators;,LJ016-0337.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0338.wav,"inside the jail was Colonel Frazer, the chief commissioner of the city police, and at no great distance, although in the background,",LJ016-0338.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0339.wav,"troops were held in readiness to act if required. Everything passed off quite quietly, however,",LJ016-0339.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0340.wav,"and Calcraft, who had been threatened with summary retribution if he executed Barrett, carried out the sentence without mishap.",LJ016-0340.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0341.wav,The sufferer was stolid and reticent to the last.,LJ016-0341.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0342.wav,The first private execution under the new law took place within the precincts of Maidstone Jail.,LJ016-0342.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0343.wav,"The sufferer was a porter on the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, sentenced to death for shooting the station-master at Dover.",LJ016-0343.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0344.wav,"The ceremony, which was witnessed by only a few officials and representatives of the press, was performed with the utmost decency and decorum.",LJ016-0344.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0346.wav,"a fact duly advertised as completed by the hoisting of the black flag over the jail,",LJ016-0346.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0347.wav,"had undoubtedly a solemn, impressive effect upon those outside.",LJ016-0347.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0348.wav,"The same was realized in the first private execution within Newgate,",LJ016-0348.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0349.wav,"that of Alexander Mackay, who murdered his mistress at Norton Folgate by beating her with a rolling-pin and furnace-rake,",LJ016-0349.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0350.wav,"and who expiated his crime on the 8th September, 1868.",LJ016-0350.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0351.wav,"A more marked change from the old scene can hardly be conceived. Instead of the roar of the brutalized crowd,",LJ016-0351.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0352.wav,the officials spoke in whispers; there was but little moving to and fro.,LJ016-0352.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0353.wav,"Almost absolute silence prevailed until the great bell began to toll its deep note, and broke the stillness with its regular and monotonous clangour,",LJ016-0353.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0354.wav,"and the ordinary, in a voice trembling with emotion, read the burial service aloud.",LJ016-0354.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0355.wav,"Mackay's fortitude, which had been great,",LJ016-0355.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0356.wav,"broke down at the supreme moment before the horror of the stillness, the awful impressiveness of the scene in which he was the principal actor.",LJ016-0356.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0357.wav,"No time was lost in carrying out the dread ceremony; but it was not completed without some of the officials turning sick, and the moment it was over,",LJ016-0357.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0358.wav,all who could were glad to escape from the last act of the ghastly drama at which they had assisted.,LJ016-0358.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0359.wav,"Private executions at their first introduction were not popular with the Newgate officials, and for intelligible reasons.",LJ016-0359.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0360.wav,The change added greatly to the responsibilities of the governor and his subordinates. Hitherto the public had seemed to assist at the ceremony;,LJ016-0360.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0361.wav,"the moment too that the condemned man had passed through the debtors' door on to the scaffold the prison had done with him,",LJ016-0361.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0362.wav,and the great outside world shared in the completion of the sacrifice.,LJ016-0362.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0363.wav,This feeling was the stronger because,LJ016-0363.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0364.wav,"all the ghastly paraphernalia, the gallows itself and the process of erecting and removing it, rested with the city architect, and not with the prison officials.",LJ016-0364.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0365.wav,"Moreover, after the execution, under the old system, the latter had only to receive the body for burial after it had been cut down by the hangman,",LJ016-0365.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0366.wav,and placed decently in a shell by the workmen who removed the gallows.,LJ016-0366.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0367.wav,Under the new system the whole of the arrangements from first to last fell upon the officers.,LJ016-0367.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0368.wav,It was they who formed the chief part of the small select group of spectators;,LJ016-0368.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0369.wav,upon them devolved the painful duty of cutting down the body and preparing for the inquest.,LJ016-0369.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0370.wav,"All that the hangman, whoever he may be, does under the new regime is to unhook the halter and remove the pinioning straps.",LJ016-0370.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0371.wav,The interment in a shell filled with quicklime in the passage-way leading to the Old Bailey is also a part of the duty of the prison officials.,LJ016-0371.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0373.wav,"and for the greater security of prisoners it is roofed in with iron bars which gives it, at least overhead, the aspect of a huge cage.",LJ016-0373.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0374.wav,"Underfoot and upon the walls roughly cut into the stones, are single initial letters, the brief epitaphs of those who lie below.",LJ016-0374.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0375.wav,"As this burial-ground leads to the adjacent Central Criminal Court, accused murderers, on going to and returning from trial,",LJ016-0375.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0376.wav,"literally walked over what, in case of conviction, would be their own graves.",LJ016-0376.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0377.wav,"The older officers, with several of whom I have conversed, have thus had unusual opportunities of watching the demeanor of murderers both before trial",LJ016-0377.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0378.wav,and after sentence.,LJ016-0378.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0379.wav,"All as a rule, unless poignant remorse has brought a desire to court their richly-merited retribution, are buoyed up",LJ016-0379.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0380.wav,"with hope to the last. There is always the chance of a flaw in the indictment, of a missing witness, or extenuating circumstances.",LJ016-0380.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0381.wav,"Even when in the condemned cell, with a shameful death within measurable distance,",LJ016-0381.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0382.wav,"many cling still to life, expecting much from the intercession of friends or the humanitarianism of the age.",LJ016-0382.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0383.wav,"All almost without exception sleep soundly at night, except the first after sentence,",LJ016-0383.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0384.wav,"when the first shock of the verdict and the solemn notification of the impending blow keeps nearly all awake, or at least disturbs their night's rest.",LJ016-0384.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0385.wav,"But the uneasiness soon wears off. The second night sleep comes readily, and is sound;",LJ016-0385.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0386.wav,"many of the most abandoned murderers snore peacefully their eight hours, even on the night immediately preceding execution.",LJ016-0386.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0387.wav,"All too have a fairly good appetite, and eat with relish, up to the last moment.",LJ016-0387.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0388.wav,"A few go further, and are almost gluttonous.",LJ016-0388.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0389.wav,"Giovanni Lanni, the Italian boy who murdered a Frenchwoman in the Haymarket,",LJ016-0389.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0390.wav,"and was arrested on board ship just as he was about to leave the country, had a little spare cash, which he devoted entirely to the purchase of extra food.",LJ016-0390.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0391.wav,"He ate constantly and voraciously after sentence, as though eager to cram as many meals as possible into the few hours still left him to live.",LJ016-0391.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0392.wav,"Jeffrey, who murdered his own child, an infant of six, by hanging him in a cellar in Seven Dials,",LJ016-0392.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0393.wav,called for a roast duck directly he entered the condemned cell.,LJ016-0393.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0394.wav,"The request was not granted, as the old custom of allowing capital convicts whatever they asked for in the way of food has not been the rule in Newgate.",LJ016-0394.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0395.wav,"The diet of the condemned is the ordinary diet of the prison,",LJ016-0395.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0396.wav,"but to which additions are sometimes made, chiefly of stimulants, if deemed necessary, by the medical officer of the jail.",LJ016-0396.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0397.wav,The craving for tobacco which so dominates the habitual smoker often leads the convicted to plead hard for a last smoke.,LJ016-0397.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0398.wav,As a special favor,LJ016-0398.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0399.wav,"Wainwright was allowed a cigar the night before execution, which he smoked in the prison yard, walking up and down with the governor, Mr. Sydney Smith.",LJ016-0399.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0400.wav,Wainwright's demeanor was one of reckless effrontery steadily maintained to the last.,LJ016-0400.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0401.wav,"His conversation turned always upon his influence over the weaker sex, and the extraordinary success he had achieved.",LJ016-0401.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0402.wav,"No woman could resist him, he calmly assured Mr. Smith that night as they walked together, and he recounted his villanies one by one.",LJ016-0402.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0403.wav,His effrontery was only outdone by his cool contempt for the consolations of religion.,LJ016-0403.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0404.wav,"The man who had made a pious life a cloak for his misdeeds, the once exemplary young man and indefatigable Sunday School teacher,",LJ016-0404.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0405.wav,went impenitent to the gallows. The only sign of feeling he showed was in asking to be allowed to choose the hymns on the Sunday,LJ016-0405.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0406.wav,"the condemned sermon was preached in the prison chapel, and this was probably only that he might hear the singing of a lady with a magnificent voice",LJ016-0406.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0407.wav,who generally attended the prison services.,LJ016-0407.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0408.wav,"During the singing of these hymns Wainwright fainted, but whether from real emotion or the desire to make a sensation was never exactly known.",LJ016-0408.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0409.wav,"On the fatal morning he came gaily out of his cell,",LJ016-0409.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0410.wav,"nodded pleasantly to the governor, who stood just opposite, and then walked briskly towards the execution shed, smiling as he went along.",LJ016-0410.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0411.wav,"There was a smile on his face when it was last seen, and just as the terrible white cap was drawn over it.",LJ016-0411.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0412.wav,"Wainwright's execution was within the jail, but only nominally private.",LJ016-0412.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0413.wav,"No less than sixty-seven persons were present, admitted by special permission of the sheriff.",LJ016-0413.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0414.wav,"Rumour even went so far as to assert that among the spectators were several women, disguised in male habiliments;",LJ016-0414.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0415.wav,"but the story was never substantiated, and we may hope that it rested only on the idle gossip of the day.",LJ016-0415.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0416.wav,"Many, like Wainwright, were calm and imperturbable throughout their trying ordeal.",LJ016-0416.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0417.wav,"Catherine Wilson, the poisoner, was reserved and reticent to the last, expressing no contrition, but also no fear --",LJ016-0417.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0418.wav,"a tall, gaunt, repulsive-looking woman, who no more shrank from cowardly, secret crimes than from the penalty they entailed.",LJ016-0418.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0419.wav,"Kate Webster, who was tried at the Central Criminal Court, and passed through Newgate, although she suffered at Wandsworth,",LJ016-0419.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0420.wav,"is remembered at the former prison as a defiant,",LJ016-0420.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0421.wav,"brutal creature who showed no remorse, but was subject to fits of ungovernable passion, when she broke out into language the most appalling.",LJ016-0421.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0422.wav,The man Marley displayed fortitude of a less repulsive kind. He acknowledged his guilt from the first.,LJ016-0422.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0423.wav,"When the sheriff offered him counsel for his defense, he declined, saying he wished to make none -- ""the witnesses for the prosecution spoke the truth.""",LJ016-0423.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0424.wav,During the trial and after sentence he remained perfectly cool and collected.,LJ016-0424.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0425.wav,"When visited one day in the condemned cell, just as St. Sepulchre's clock was striking, he looked up and said laughingly, ""Go along, clock;",LJ016-0425.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0426.wav,"come along, gallows.",LJ016-0426.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0427.wav,"He tripped up the chapel-stairs to hear the condemned sermon, and came out with cheerful alacrity on the morning he was to die.",LJ016-0427.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0428.wav,Some condemned convicts converse but little with the warders who have them unceasingly in charge.,LJ016-0428.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0429.wav,"Others talk freely enough on various topics, but principally upon their own cases.",LJ016-0429.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0430.wav,When vanity is strongly developed there is the keen anxiety to hear what is being said about them outside.,LJ016-0430.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0431.wav,One was vexed to think that his victims had a finer funeral than he would have.,LJ016-0431.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0432.wav,"The only subject another showed any interest in was the theatres and the new pieces that were being produced. A third, Christian Satler,",LJ016-0432.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0433.wav,"laughed and jested with the officers about ""Jack Ketch,"" who, through the postponement of the execution, would lose his Christmas dinner.",LJ016-0433.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0434.wav,"When they brought in the two watchers to relieve guard one night, Sattler said,",LJ016-0434.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0435.wav,"Two fresh men! May I speak to them? Yes! I must caution you, he went on to the warders, ""not to go to sleep, or I shall be off through that little hole,""",LJ016-0435.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0436.wav,"pointing to an aperture for ventilating the cell. On the morning of execution he asked how far it was to the gallows, and was told it was quite close.",LJ016-0436.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0438.wav,that the convict's clothes were still the executioner's perquisite.,LJ016-0438.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0439.wav,"Often the convicts give way to despair. They are too closely watched to be allowed to do themselves much mischief, or suicides would probably be more frequent.",LJ016-0439.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0440.wav,But it is neither easy to obtain the instruments of self-destruction nor to elude the vigilance of their guard.,LJ016-0440.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0441.wav,"The man, Bousfield, however, whose execution was so sadly bungled,",LJ016-0441.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0442.wav,made a determined effort to burn himself to death by throwing himself bodily on to the fire in the condemned ward.,LJ016-0442.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0443.wav,"He was promptly rescued from his perilous condition, but not before his face and hands were badly scorched.",LJ016-0443.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0444.wav,They were still much swollen when he was led out to execution.,LJ016-0444.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0445.wav,"Miller, the Chelsea murderer, who packed his victim's body in a box, and tried to send it by parcels delivery, tried to kill himself,",LJ016-0445.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ016-0446.wav,"but ineffectively, by running his head against his cell wall.",LJ016-0446.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0001.wav,"The Chronicles of Newgate, Volume 2. By Arthur Griffiths. Section 20: Newgate Notorieties, part 1.",LJ017-0001.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0002.wav,"As these records draw to a close, the crimes I chronicle become so much more recent in date that they will be fresh in the memory of most of my readers.",LJ017-0002.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0003.wav,"Nevertheless, in order to give completeness to the picture",LJ017-0003.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0004.wav,"I have attempted to draw of crime in connection with Newgate, from first to last, I must make some mention, in this my penultimate chapter,",LJ017-0004.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0005.wav,of some of the most heinous offenses of modern times.,LJ017-0005.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0006.wav,The crime of poisoning has always been viewed with peculiar loathing and terror in this country.,LJ017-0006.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0007.wav,"It will be remembered that as far back as the reign of Henry VIII. a new and most cruel penalty was devised for the punishment of the Bishop of Rochester's cook,",LJ017-0007.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0008.wav,who had poisoned his master and many of his dependents.,LJ017-0008.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0009.wav,"Sir Thomas Overbury was undoubtedly poisoned by Lord Rochester in the reign of James I.,",LJ017-0009.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0010.wav,and it is hinted that James himself nearly fell a victim to a nefarious attempt of the Duke of Buckingham.,LJ017-0010.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0011.wav,But secret poisoning on a wholesale scale such as was practiced in Italy and France was happily never popularized in England.,LJ017-0011.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0012.wav,"The well-known and lethal aqua Toffania,",LJ017-0012.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0013.wav,"so called after its inventress, a Roman woman named Toffana, and which was so widely adopted by ladies anxious to get rid of their husbands,",LJ017-0013.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0014.wav,"was never introduced into this country. Its admission was probably checked by the increased vigilance at the custom houses,",LJ017-0014.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0015.wav,"the necessity for which was urged by Mr. Addison, when Secretary of State, in 1717.",LJ017-0015.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0016.wav,"The cases of poisoning in the British calendars are rare, nor indeed was the guilt of the accused always clearly established.",LJ017-0016.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0017.wav,"It is quite possible that Catherine Blandy, who poisoned her father at the instigation of her lover,",LJ017-0017.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0018.wav,"was ignorant of the destructive character of the powders, probably arsenic, which she administered.",LJ017-0018.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0019.wav,"Captain Donellan, who was convicted of poisoning his brother-in-law, Sir Theodosius Broughton, and executed for it,",LJ017-0019.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0020.wav,would probably have had the benefit in these days of the doubts raised at his trial.,LJ017-0020.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0021.wav,"A third case, more especially interesting to us as having passed through Newgate,",LJ017-0021.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0022.wav,"was that of Eliza Fenning, who was convicted of an attempt to poison a whole family",LJ017-0022.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0023.wav,"by putting arsenic in the dumplings she had prepared for them. The charge rested entirely on circumstantial evidence,",LJ017-0023.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0024.wav,"and as Fenning, although convicted and executed, protested her innocence in the most solemn manner to the last,",LJ017-0024.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0025.wav,the justice of the sentence was doubted at the time.,LJ017-0025.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0026.wav,"Yet it was clearly proved that the dumplings contained arsenic, that she, and she alone, had made the dough,",LJ017-0026.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0027.wav,"that arsenic was within her reach in the house,",LJ017-0027.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0028.wav,"that she had had a quarrel with her mistress, and that the latter with all others who tasted the dumplings were similarly attacked, although no one died.",LJ017-0028.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0029.wav,"The crime of poisoning is essentially one which will be most prevalent in a high state of civilization,",LJ017-0029.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0030.wav,"when the spread of scientific knowledge places nefarious means at the disposal of many,",LJ017-0030.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0031.wav,"instead of limiting them, as in the days of the Borgias and Brinvilliers, to the specially informed and unscrupulously powerful few.",LJ017-0031.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0032.wav,"The first intimation conveyed to society of the new terror which threatened it was in the arrest and arraignment of William Palmer,",LJ017-0032.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0033.wav,"a medical practitioner, charged with doing to death persons who relied upon his professional skill.",LJ017-0033.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0034.wav,"The case contained elements of much uncertainty, and yet it was so essential,",LJ017-0034.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0035.wav,"in the interests and for the due protection of the public, that the fullest and fairest inquiry should be made,",LJ017-0035.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0036.wav,"that the trial was transferred to the Central Criminal Court,",LJ017-0036.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0037.wav,"under the authority of an Act passed on purpose, known as the Trial of offenses Act, and sometimes as Lord Campbell's Act.",LJ017-0037.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0038.wav,That the administration of justice should never be interfered with by local prejudice or local feeling,LJ017-0038.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0039.wav,"is obviously of paramount importance, and the powers granted by this Act have been frequently put in practice since.",LJ017-0039.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0040.wav,"The trial of Catherine Winsor, the baby farmer,",LJ017-0040.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0041.wav,"was thus brought to the Central Criminal Court from Exeter assizes, and that of the Stauntons from Maidstone.",LJ017-0041.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0042.wav,Palmer's trial caused the most intense excitement.,LJ017-0042.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0043.wav,"The direful suspicions which surrounded the case filled the whole country with uneasiness and misgiving,",LJ017-0043.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0044.wav,"and the deepest anxiety was felt that the crime, if crime there had been, should be brought home to its perpetrator.",LJ017-0044.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0045.wav,The Central Criminal Court was crowded to suffocation.,LJ017-0045.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0046.wav,Great personages occupied seats upon the bench;,LJ017-0046.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0047.wav,"the rest of the available space was allotted by ticket, to secure which the greatest influence was necessary.",LJ017-0047.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0048.wav,People came to stare at the supposed cold-blooded prisoner;,LJ017-0048.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0049.wav,"with morbid curiosity to scan his features and watch his demeanor through the shifting, nicely-balanced phases of his protracted trial.",LJ017-0049.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0050.wav,"Palmer, who was only thirty-one at the time of his trial, was in appearance short and stout, with a round head",LJ017-0050.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0051.wav,covered rather scantily with light sandy hair.,LJ017-0051.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0052.wav,"His skin was extraordinarily fair, his cheeks fresh and ruddy; altogether his face, though commonplace, was not exactly ugly;",LJ017-0052.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0053.wav,there was certainly nothing in it which indicated cruel cunning or deliberate truculence.,LJ017-0053.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0054.wav,"His features were not careworn, but rather set, and he looked older than his age.",LJ017-0054.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0055.wav,"Throughout his trial he preserved an impassive countenance, but he clearly took a deep interest in all that passed.",LJ017-0055.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0056.wav,"Although the strain lasted fourteen days, he showed no signs of exhaustion, either physical or mental.",LJ017-0056.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0057.wav,"On returning to jail each day he talked freely and without reserve to the warders in charge of him, chiefly on incidents in the day's proceedings.",LJ017-0057.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0058.wav,He was confident to the very last that it would be impossible to find him guilty;,LJ017-0058.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0059.wav,"even after sentence, and until within a few hours of execution, he was buoyed up with the hope of reprieve.",LJ017-0059.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0060.wav,"The conviction that he would escape had taken so firm a hold of him,",LJ017-0060.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0061.wav,"that he steadily refused to confess his guilt, lest it should militate against his chances.",LJ017-0061.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0062.wav,"In the condemned cell he frequently repeated, quote, I go to my death a murdered man, end quote.",LJ017-0062.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0063.wav,"He made no distinct admissions even on the scaffold; but when the chaplain at the last moment exhorted him to confess,",LJ017-0063.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0064.wav,"he made use of the remarkable words, quote, If it is necessary for my soul's sake to confess this murder,",LJ017-0064.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0065.wav,I ought also to confess the others: I mean my wife and my brother's. End quote.,LJ017-0065.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0066.wav,Yet he was silent when specifically pressed to confess that he had killed his wife and his brother.,LJ017-0066.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0067.wav,"Palmer was ably defended, but the weight of evidence was clearly with the prosecution, led by Sir Alexander Cockburn,",LJ017-0067.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0068.wav,and public opinion at the termination of the trial coincided with the verdict of the jury.,LJ017-0068.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0069.wav,"Originally a doctor in practice at Rugeley, in Staffordshire, he had gradually withdrawn from medicine, and devoted himself to the turf;",LJ017-0069.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0070.wav,"but his sporting operations did not prosper, and he became a needy man, always driven to desperate straits for cash.",LJ017-0070.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0071.wav,"To meet his liabilities, he raised large sums on forged bills of acceptance drawn upon his mother, a woman of some means,",LJ017-0071.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0072.wav,whose signature he counterfeited.,LJ017-0072.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0073.wav,"In 1854 he owed a very large sum of money, but he was temporarily relieved by the death of his wife,",LJ017-0073.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0074.wav,"whose life he had insured for £13,000.",LJ017-0074.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0075.wav,There is every reason to suppose that he poisoned his wife to obtain possession of this sum upon her death.,LJ017-0075.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0076.wav,"His brother was supposed to have been his next victim, upon whose life he had also effected an insurance for another £13,000.",LJ017-0076.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0077.wav,"The brother too died conveniently, but the life office took some exception to the manner of the death, and hesitated to disburse the funds claimed by Palmer.",LJ017-0077.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0078.wav,"Palmer tried to get a new insurance on the life of a hanger-on, one Bates, but no office would accept it, no doubt greatly to Bates's longevity.",LJ017-0078.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0079.wav,"Meanwhile the bill discounters who held the forged acceptances, with other promissory notes, began to clamor for payment, and talk of issuing writs.",LJ017-0079.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0080.wav,"Palmer, alive to the danger he ran of a prosecution for forgery, should the fraud he had committed be brought to light,",LJ017-0080.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0081.wav,sought about for a fresh victim to supply him with funds.,LJ017-0081.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0082.wav,"He fixed upon a sporting friend, Mr. John Parsons Cook, who had been in luck at Shrewsbury races, both as a winner and a backer,",LJ017-0082.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0083.wav,whom he persuaded to go and stay at Rugeley in an hotel just opposite his own house.,LJ017-0083.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0084.wav,"It was there that Cook was first taken ill with violent retchings and vomitings, all dating from visits of Palmer, who brought him medicines and food.",LJ017-0084.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0085.wav,"Palmer's plan was to administer poison in quantities insufficient to cause death, but enough to produce illness which would account for death.",LJ017-0085.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0086.wav,"For this purpose he gave, or there was the strongest presumption that he gave,",LJ017-0086.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0087.wav,"antimony, which caused Cook's constant sickness.",LJ017-0087.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0088.wav,Quantities of antimony were found in the body after death.,LJ017-0088.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0089.wav,"While Cook lay ill, Palmer in his name pocketed the proceeds of the Shrewsbury settling,",LJ017-0089.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0090.wav,and so got the money for which he was prepared to barter his soul.,LJ017-0090.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0091.wav,"The last act now approached, and in order to avoid the detection of this last fraud, Palmer laid his plans for disposing of Cook.",LJ017-0091.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0092.wav,"He decided to use strychnia, or the vegetable poison otherwise known as nux vomica;",LJ017-0092.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0093.wav,and one of the many links in the long chain of evidence was an entry in a book of Palmer's to the effect that Quote.,LJ017-0093.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0094.wav,strychnia kills by causing tetanic fixing of the respiratory muscles. End quote.,LJ017-0094.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0095.wav,The purchase by Palmer of strychnia was proved.,LJ017-0095.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0096.wav,"The night he bought it, Cook, who had been taking certain pills under medical advice, not Palmer's, was seized with violent convulsions.",LJ017-0096.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0097.wav,"He had swallowed his pills as usual, at least Palmer had administered them",LJ017-0097.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0098.wav,"whether the ordinary or his own pills will never be known, except as may be inferred from the results, which indicate that he had taken the latter.",LJ017-0098.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0099.wav,"Cook recovered this time; it was probably Palmer's intention that he should recover, wishing to encourage the supposition that Cook was in a bad way.",LJ017-0099.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0100.wav,Next night Cook had a second and a more violent attack.,LJ017-0100.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0101.wav,"That day Palmer had bought more strychnia, and had called in a fresh doctor.",LJ017-0101.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0102.wav,"The second attack was fatal, and ended in Cook's death from tetanus.",LJ017-0102.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0103.wav,"This tetanus, according to the prosecution, was produced by strychnia, and followed the administration of pills by Palmer",LJ017-0103.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0104.wav,"prescribed nominally by the fresh doctor, for which Palmer had substituted his own.",LJ017-0104.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0105.wav,Cook's death was horrible,LJ017-0105.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0106.wav,"fearful paroxysms and cramps, ending in suffocation by the tetanic rigor which caught the muscles of the chest.",LJ017-0106.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0107.wav,"After Cook's death his stepfather, who was much attached to him, came to Rugeley.",LJ017-0107.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0108.wav,"He was struck with the appearance of the corpse, which was not emaciated, as after a long disease ending in death;",LJ017-0108.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0109.wav,"while the muscles of the fingers were tightly clenched, not open, as usual in a corpse.",LJ017-0109.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0110.wav,"He said nothing, but began to feel uneasy when he found that Cook's betting-book was missing, and that Palmer put it forward",LJ017-0110.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0111.wav,"that his friend had died greatly embarrassed, with bills to the amount of £4000 out in his name.",LJ017-0111.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0112.wav,"Palmer too showed an indecent haste in preparing the body for interment, and in obtaining the usual certificate.",LJ017-0112.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0113.wav,"After this the step-father insisted upon a post-mortem, which was conducted somewhat carelessly.",LJ017-0113.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0114.wav,"The intestines were, however, preserved and sent for analysis,",LJ017-0114.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0115.wav,"but it was proved that Palmer tried hard to get possession of the jar containing them,",LJ017-0115.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0116.wav,and even sought to upset the vehicle by which they were being conveyed a part of the way to London.,LJ017-0116.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0117.wav,"The examination of the stomach betrayed the presence of antimony in large quantities, but no strychnia,",LJ017-0117.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0118.wav,and it was on the entire absence of the latter that the defense was principally based when Palmer was brought to trial.,LJ017-0118.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0119.wav,All the circumstances were so suspicious that he could not escape the criminal charge.,LJ017-0119.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0120.wav,"He had already been arrested on a writ issued at the instance of the money-lenders, and an action had been commenced against Mrs. Palmer on her acceptances.",LJ017-0120.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0121.wav,"It came out at once that these had been forged, and the whole affair at once took the ugliest complexion.",LJ017-0121.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0122.wav,"A government prosecution was instituted, and Palmer was brought to Newgate for trial at the Central Criminal Court.",LJ017-0122.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0123.wav,There was not much reserve about him when there.,LJ017-0123.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0124.wav,He frequently declared before and during the trial that it would be impossible to find him guilty.,LJ017-0124.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0125.wav,"He never actually said that he was not guilty, but he was confident he would not be convicted.",LJ017-0125.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0126.wav,He relied on the absence of the strychnia.,LJ017-0126.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0127.wav,"But the chain of circumstantial evidence was strong enough to satisfy the jury, who agreed to their verdict in an hour.",LJ017-0127.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0128.wav,"At the last moment Palmer tossed a bit of paper over to his counsel, on which he had written, quote, I think there will be a verdict of Not Guilty, end quote.",LJ017-0128.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0129.wav,Even after the death sentence had been passed upon him he clung to the hope that the Government would grant him a reprieve.,LJ017-0129.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0130.wav,"To the last, therefore, he played the part of a man wrongfully convicted, and did not abandon hope",LJ017-0130.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0131.wav,"even when the high sheriff had told him there was no possibility of a reprieve, and within a few hours of execution.",LJ017-0131.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0132.wav,He suffered at Stafford in front of the jail.,LJ017-0132.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0133.wav,Palmer speedily found imitators.,LJ017-0133.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0134.wav,"Within a few weeks occurred the Leeds poisoning case, in which the murderer undoubtedly was inspired by the facts made public at Palmer's trial.",LJ017-0134.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0135.wav,"Dove, a fiendish brute, found from the evidence in that case that he could kill his wife, whom he hated,",LJ017-0135.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0136.wav,"with exquisite torture, and with a poison that would leave, as he thought, no trace.",LJ017-0136.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0137.wav,"In the latter hope he was happily disappointed. But as this case is beyond my subject, I merely mention it as one of the group already referred to.",LJ017-0137.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0138.wav,"Three years later came the case of Dr. Smethurst,",LJ017-0138.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0139.wav,"presenting still greater features of resemblance with Palmer's, for both were medical men, and both raised difficult questions of medical jurisprudence.",LJ017-0139.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0140.wav,"In both the jury had no doubt as to the guilt of the accused, only in Smethurst's case the then Home Secretary, Sir George Cornewall Lewis,",LJ017-0140.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0141.wav,"could not divest his mind of serious doubt, and of which the murderer got the benefit.",LJ017-0141.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0142.wav,"Smethurst's escape may have influenced the jury in the Poplar poisoning case,",LJ017-0142.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0143.wav,"which followed close on its heels, although in that the verdict of ""Not Guilty"" was excusable, as the evidence was entirely circumstantial.",LJ017-0143.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0144.wav,"There was no convincing proof that the accused had administered the poison, although beyond question that poison had occasioned the death.",LJ017-0144.wav
/kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ017-0145.wav,"Dr. Smethurst was long an inmate of Newgate, and was tried at the Central Criminal Court.",LJ017-0145.wav