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TRIALS.. The Life, Trial, Behaviour, and Execution, of Thos. Roe & Benj. Miller, who were Hanged at Nottingham, on April 2, 1823, for Highway Robbery.1823

Nottingham: Printed by R. Sutton, 12mo (150 x 85 mm) 12pp., several leaves mounted on stubs, new boards. Thomas Roe and Benjamin Miller, neither having reached the age of 23, were executed on Wednesday, April 2nd, 1823, for highway robbery. They were both natives of Nottingham, and together with a youth named Thomas Brooks, only 19 years of age, assaulted and robbed Samuel Marriot, a labourer, in the employ of Messrs. Simpson, Brick-hill Farm, near Arnold. They would have murdered their victim had not his cries have brought several persons to his assistance. Brooks was admitted evidence for the Crown and was saved.

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