ATROCITIES, DUELS, SUICIDES, AND EXECUTION OF
GAMBLERS. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 | ||
`IN AT THE DEATH.'
In 1819 an inquest was held on the body of a gentleman found hanging from one of the trees in St James's Park. The evidence established the
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The three following stories, if not of actual suicide, relate crimes which bear a close resemblance to self-murder.
ATROCITIES, DUELS, SUICIDES, AND EXECUTION OF
GAMBLERS. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 | ||