Report of the Trial of Thomas Hunter, Peter Hacket, Richard M'Neil, James Gibb, and William M'Lean: Operative Cotton-spinners in Glasgow, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, January 3, 1838, and Seven Following Days, for the Crimes of Illegal Conspiracy and Murder ; with an Appendix of Documents and Relative ProceedingsThomas Clark, 1838 - 382 páginas |
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acts of violence aforesaid aliment Anderston appointed apprehended assault Bridgeton called Cameron's Campbell certificate Christie Clyde street committed conspirator cotton cotton-mills Court crime Daniel Montgomery debt declarant delegates dence duty Edward Kean evidence factory felonious finance committee Gallowgate George Salmond Glasgow guard committee hand-writing illegal conspiracy Indictment Inventory shewn James Gibb John Bunyan July June Jury last strike lately residing learned friend Lord Advocate Lordships M'Donald masters meeting Mile-end mittee Moat Neilston never heard night nobs o'clock Oakbank oath object operative cotton-spinners paid pannels Patrick M'Gowan perpetrated persons Peter Hacket prisoners prosecutor unknown proved rate of wages received recollect regard Richard M'Neil Robert Greenhill secret committee secret select Sheriff shot signed spinners supply committee thing Thomas Hunter threatening letters tion told trial unlawful association Walter Moir Walter Morrison William M'Lean witness WITNESS.-I workmen
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Página 23 - July, 1862, or on one or other of the days of that month, or of June immediately preceding, or of August immediately following...
Página 21 - Cotton-Spinner, but I am depending on the Cotton-Trade, though in a remote degree Nevertheless, I have been taking a steady and retrospective view of your mean and mercenary conduct towards those brave but starving men — engaged as they are in a struggle the most righteous that ever man engaged in — the PROTECTION of their labour, their only capital; and I find that you are not only using every energ in your power to injure these brave men, but you are doing more, you are acting the low tool...
Página xxvii - ... who shall give such information and evidence as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the principal offender...
Página 32 - M'Dougal ought to be punished with the pains of law, to deter others from committing the like crimes in all time coming.
Página 1 - Victoria, by the grace of God Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, saving as aforesaid.
Página xxviii - James Stuart, clerk to the signet, lately residing in Charlotte-street, of Edinburgh, you are indicted, and accused at the instance of Sir William Rae, of St. Catharine's, baronet, his majesty's advocate for his majesty's interest; that, albeit, by the laws...
Página xxviii - That albeit by the laws of this and of every other wellgoverned realm, murder is a crime of an heinous nature and severely punishable ; yet true it is, and of verity, that you the said William Burke and Helen M'Dougal are both and each, or one or other of you, guilty of the said crime, actor or art and part...
Página xxx - Yet there are masses of people who set themselves up as dictators of the market of labour, and who have the audacity to band themselves together in defence of this tyranny. These persons not only abstain from working themselves — which the law leaves them at perfect liberty to do — but they proclaim that nobody else shall work for less : and if their insolent mandate be disregarded, they enforce it by violence ; and then declare themselves the friends of free trade. How any thing so iniquitous...
Página 173 - Johnstone, and unanimously carried, the names of every Nob at present working, and the districts they last wrought in, should be enrolled in a book, and at the end of the strike, unless a change in the list takes place, they be printed ; but, at all events, the names of all who remain...
Página xxviii - That albeit, by the laws of this and of every other well-governed realm, murder is a crime of a heinous nature, and severely punishable ; yet true it is and of verity, that you the said James Stuart are guilty of the said crime, actor, or art and part : in so far as...