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Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II.

CHAPTER VI
24/32

The next of these events oc-curred on the 23rd of February, 1807.

This was when Haggarty and Holloway were to suffer for the murder of Mr.Steele on Houns-low Heath.

The populace began to assemble so early as five o'clock, and to accumulate until eight.

(It is supposed that the concourse of people was greater than at the execution of Governor Wall.) At eight o'clock the prisoners ascended the scaffold.

Im-mediately after they were launched off, a most dreadful scene took place.


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