Evidence: | Visit from cell to cell:
'9. A prizefighter. Under a false name he was convicted of highway robbery, innocent, he alleged, of that crime; however, has done bad, and worse, many times. Was, at the time of his apprehension, in a bad house, with thieves and loose characters, spending 5s. he had gotten from a clergyman in Derby, he attending his lecture and making a pitiful tale. He took it all now as a judgement from God, for that and other sins. He had escaped justice in a case of manslaughter - having killed a man in a prizefight and fled. The preaching of God's word seems to have come home to this man's heart. He delights in reading the Holy Scriptures, which he has been taught here to do; and has become gentle, docile and obedient.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: Pentonville Prison other location: in his cell |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | prisoner, formerly prizefighter, trickster and habitual criminal |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Bible |
Genre: | Bible |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) probably prison issue |
Record ID: | 15101 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Kingsmill | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Chapters on prisons and prisoners | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1852, 2nd edn | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 245-246 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Joseph Kingsmill, Chapters on prisons and prisoners (London, 1852, 2nd edn), p. 245-246, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=15101, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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