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Download or read book Trial of Deacon Brodie Classic Reprint written by William Roughead and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Trial of Deacon Brodie The following report of this interesting trial is prepared from the original record, with additional particulars from contemporary sources. No connected account of the life of William Brodie having hitherto been attempted, the Editor has endeavoured to give in the introduction as complete a view as is now possible of his remarkable career. To Sheriff Moffatt, Lanark, and Mr. William Brown and Mr. John A. Fairley, Edinburgh, the Editor is under obligation for the use of MSS., books, and prints in connection with the subject. His thanks are also due to Dr. Joseph Anderson, Keeper of the Scottish National Museum of Antiquities, who has allowed him to photograph Deacon Brodie's lantern and keys and to make excerpts from the records of the Cape Club. For permission to publish for the first time facsimiles of Brodie's letter to the Duchess of Buccleuch and the MS. register in his Family Bible, the Editor is respectively indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Alexander Anderson, Librarian of the Edinburgh University Library, and the Plans and Works Committee of Edinburgh Town Council. Mr. Bruce J. Home has not only kindly permitted the reproduction of two drawings from his well-known work, "Old Houses in Edinburgh," but has made a drawing of the old Excise Office, Chessel's Court, expressly for the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Trial of Deacon Brodie written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As suggested by the title, the subject of this work deals with the trial of William Brodie, a talented cabinet-maker and a member of the Town Council and head of the Incorporation of Wrights and Masons. But the fact little known by many is that Brodie had a secret night-time job as the leader of a gang of burglars. Brodie's final crime and eventual defeat was an armed raid on His Majesty's Excise Office in Chessel's Court on the Canongate. Although Brodie had planned the burglary himself, things went catastrophically wrong. His accomplices got caught, but Brodie fled to the Netherlands, where he was arrested in Amsterdam and returned to Edinburgh for trial, which started on 27 August 1788. This report of the absorbing trial of Deacon Brodie was prepared with the help of the original records, along with some extra facts from that time's recent sources. There was no attempt at discussing the life of William Brodie.
Download or read book Classic Crimes written by William Roughead and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. Utterly engrossing, these accounts of pre-meditated mayhem and miscarried justice also cast a powerful light on the evil that human beings, and human institutions, find both tempting to contemplate and all too easy to do.
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Download or read book Deacon Brodie written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Brodie (28 September 1741 - 1 October 1788), more commonly known by his prestigious title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of a trades guild and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a burglar, partly for the thrill, and partly to fund his gambling. Stevenson remained fascinated by the dichotomy between Brodie's respectable facade, and his real nature and was inspired to write The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)."
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