| Show REC record CRIMINAL LIVES book which would be condemn d today read by men and women a few generations ago one of the scarce books which has to be sold at an approaching auction sale in this city bears this fascinating title the lives ct cf tho the most remarkable criminals who have fleen been condemned and executed for murder highway housebreakers house breakers street robberies coining or otner other offenses Onen ses from 1720 to the present time the present time referred to in this title titie was only the year 1735 so BO that the whole period covered by these thrilling and numerous criminal lives was only 15 years it must have been a great time for criminals tor for between the covers of the book are the stories of jack sheppard Shep oard kennedy the pirate jonathan wild mrs griffin edward burnsworth william bar alck wick and several other quite celebrated criminals cheer up those th ose were worse times than ours for criminality and those were v ere the days too when men and women were hanged for burglary counterfeiting shee sheep 1 stealing and even poaching and smug gling an odd thing about that time too was that hundreds of books were printed which contained full and harrowing details of murder and robbery and that almost everybody including clergymen and delicate ladles ladies read these books eagerly as fast as thuy came out the oldest public libraries in new england contain in the book collections which were spread before the youth of the community many such criminal lives new york mall |
