Lives and exploits of the most noted highwaymen, robbers and murderers of all nations: Drawn from the most authentic sources and brought down to the present timeWhitehead, Charles
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Lives and exploits of the most noted highwaymen, robbers and murderers of all nations: Drawn from the most authentic sources and brought down to the present time
Whitehead, Charles
Brigands and robbers -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Murderers -- Great Britain
Meanwhile Wynne, the murderer, was in safety in a foreign land. It
also happened, that by the price of innocent blood he prospered, and
his riches greatly increased. After he had resided twenty years in
Virginia, where his family became numerous, and his riches great, he
resolved to visit England before his death, and then to return to
deposit his bones in a foreign grave. During his stay in London, he
one day went into a goldsmith’s shop in Cheapside, to purchase some
plate that he intended to take home with him. It happened, while the
goldsmith was weighing the plate which Wynne had purchased, that an
uproar took place in the street, occasioned by the circumstance of a
gentleman running off from certain bailiffs who were conducting him
to prison. Upon this Wynne ran also out into the street, and hearing
somebody behind him crying out, “Stop him! stop him!” his conscience
instantly awoke, so that he stopped, and exclaimed, “I am the man!”
“You the man!” cried the people; “what man?” “The man,” replied Wynne,
“that committed such a murder in Honey lane twenty years ago, for which
a poor man was hanged wrongfully!”
Upon this confession he was carried before a magistrate, to whom he
repeated the same acknowledgment, and was committed to Newgate, tried,
condemned, and executed before the house where he perpetrated the
horrid deed. In this manner the justice of Heaven pursued this guilty
wretch long after he thought himself beyond the reach of punishment.
Justice also overtook his family, who were privy to his guilt. Upon the
intelligence of his shameful end, his wife immediately became deranged,
and continued so to her death. Two of his sons were hanged in Virginia
for robbery, and the whole family were soon reduced to beggary.
THOMAS WITHERINGTON.
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