This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...and came in and told them that the pied heifer was dead; and they all concluded that, being so very fat, she had been over driven, and so dyed. They went all to see her, and Owen went with them, and told them he thought poor people would be glad of the meat, and therefore he would buy her, hide and all, which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...and came in and told them that the pied heifer was dead; and they all concluded that, being so very fat, she had been over driven, and so dyed. They went all to see her, and Owen went with them, and told them he thought poor people would be glad of the meat, and therefore he would buy her, hide and all, which accordingly he did for a little money; and when they were gone, he drest her, and he and the innkeeper had a great deal of good beef. I will omit the rest of these evil things I have heard of him, and hasten to that which hastened his end. I have mentioned before how George Pickstock, of Houlston, had rough ground, and thither this Owen brought his stolen cattle and horses. But the potsherd that goes often to the well, comes home broken at last. There was a stolen horse found in Pickstock's ground, and he was apprehended, and said itt was John Owen's horse; but Owen was missing. He had lately sold another to a person towards Atcham, and that horse was killed in the pasture the night that Pickstock was apprehended, and itt was thought that Owen killed him. The next day Owen came home and was apprehended, and confessed that the horse was his, and made the idle excuse which every silly thief does, that he bought him of a stranger on the road. He was tryed and condemned att Shrewsbury. Att his trial, a list of articles of many of his villanies was presented to the judge, who, upon reading of them said, that it was a great shame that such a man should live. Great numbers of people went to see his execution and to hear his confession, which they say was very large, and discovered all the villainies that he could remember he had done, among which were several felonies that other persons had been blamed or suspected for; and in the conclusion, he said, that a ...
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