A public protest against the severe sentence passed upon Mr. William Roupell, the forger and late member of Parliament for Lambeth, with an account of his private life from the cradle to his father's death revealing the great secret of his crimes which he wrote in prison and refused to divulge : relating his eventful struggles his brilliant rise and his recipitate downfall and showing from the difference between his position and those of his brothers and sisters, how his fate was sealed from birth : also the necessity of making illegitimate children, legitimate after marriage / by a Friend of the family.

London : G. Abington, [1862?]

16 pages, 16 pages.

Making of modern law. Trials, 1600-1926.

Reproduction of the original from Harvard Law School Library.

With: Life and confession of William Roupell, the convict forger and perjurer / written by himself in Horsemonger-Lane Gaol, Surrey : containing most extraordinary anecdotes of his career from his birth to the present timeاhis boyhood and its privationsاhis school-daysاhis youth and temptationsاhis reputed marriage and its resultsاhis affection for Mrs. K-, the cause of all his troublesاhis generosityاhis love for gamblingاthe hells he usedاwho did his billsاthe enormous price he paidاhis reversesاa friend demands better security and threatens to denounce himاthe will soughtاsignatures are comparedاexposure inevitableاhis flightاwho succoured himاand every particular relating to this lamentable affair : never before published.

English

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Roupell, William, 1831-1909. Life and confession of William Roupell, the convict forger and perjurer.
Life and confession of William Roupell, the convict forger and perjurer.

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