Hone's interesting history of the memorable blood conspiracy carried on by S. Mac Daniel, J. Berry, J. Egan, and J. Salmon, thief-takers and their trials and sentences in 1756, for procuring two boys to commit a robbery, in order to get the reward for their conviction and obtaining an innocent lad to be executed, having sworn away the lives of seventy poor creatures and received £1,720 from the treasury for their blood-money
William Hone, George Cruikshank, S. Mac Daniel
Hone's interesting history of the memorable blood conspiracy carried on by S. Mac Daniel, J. Berry, J. Egan, and J. Salmon, thief-takers and their trials and sentences in 1756, for procuring two boys to commit a robbery, in order to get the reward for their conviction and obtaining an innocent lad to be executed, having sworn away the lives of seventy poor creatures and received £1,720 from the treasury for their blood-money
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