The fatal effects of gambling exemplified in the murder of Wm. Weare and the trial and fate of John Thurtell, the murderer and his accomplices : with biographical sketches of the parties concerned, and a comment on the extraordinary circumstances developed in the narrative, in which gambling is proved to be the source of forgery, robbery, murder, and general demoralization : to which is added, The gambler's scourge : a complete exposé of the whole system of gambling in the metropolis, with memoirs and anecdotes of notorious blacklegs.
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Publication details:
London : Thomas Kelly, 1824.
Record id:
73297
Subject:
Weare, William, -- d. 1823.
Thurtell, John, -- 1794-1824 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Probert, William, -- d. 1825.
Hunt, Joseph, -- active 19th century -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Gambling -- England -- London.
Gamblers -- England -- Biography.
Note:
Includes accounts of Thurtell's accomplices, William Probert and Joseph Hunt.
"The gambler's scourge : an exposee of the whole system of gambling, as practised in the most notorious London hells": p. [343]-472.
Variant title:
Fatal effects of gambling exemplified in the murder of William Weare
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Phys. description:
xxii, 512 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 22 cm