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KIRBY S WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
only of her own guilt but also of the guilt of her accom-
plices, in their having from time to time, from the 2d of
September till Miss Glenn left her uncle’s house on the 22d
of that month, continually acted upon her mind for the pur-
pose of leading to a result of the nature which I have men-
tioned.
I now come to a most important part of the transaction ;
and I see sitting at the table a gentleman whose name must
of necessity be introduced. Gentlemen, on the day before
Miss Glenn left her uncle’s house, having occasion to go in-
to the town of Taunton, she met, among other persons, Mrs.
Mulraine and James Bowditch, and they prevailed upon her,
and you will hear in what way they prevailed upon this
young lady to go up a court; and having induced her to go
up the court, they further induced her to go into a house in
the court, which is described as a house of a very mean sort.
In that house and in the presence of Mrs. Mulraine they
prevailed upon this unfortunate victim to their artifices to put
her name to a paper.—Now I call upon them in the name
of justice to produce that paper! they must do it; I know
the nature of it; I know what it did contain; I know what
it does contain; and I demand of my learned friend (and I
am not using the language improperly, as he well knows)—
but I demand, in the name of my client, that my learned
friend does produce this day the paper which was signed by
this unfortunate girl, the day before she was prevailed upon
to leave her uncle’s house.
Gentlemen, Miss Glenn signed a paper, whatever it was,
and you will hear what it wras. She signed the paper, but
that was not enough for the purposes of this conspiracy; a
gentleman, whom this young lady described before she ever
saw him (for she saw him afterwards); —a gentleman came
into the house, whom she afterwards, when she saw him,
fixed upon as Mr. Oxenham, who is now sitting at the table;
she did not know Mr. Oxenham at that time; she was a
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KIRBY S WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
only of her own guilt but also of the guilt of her accom-
plices, in their having from time to time, from the 2d of
September till Miss Glenn left her uncle’s house on the 22d
of that month, continually acted upon her mind for the pur-
pose of leading to a result of the nature which I have men-
tioned.
I now come to a most important part of the transaction ;
and I see sitting at the table a gentleman whose name must
of necessity be introduced. Gentlemen, on the day before
Miss Glenn left her uncle’s house, having occasion to go in-
to the town of Taunton, she met, among other persons, Mrs.
Mulraine and James Bowditch, and they prevailed upon her,
and you will hear in what way they prevailed upon this
young lady to go up a court; and having induced her to go
up the court, they further induced her to go into a house in
the court, which is described as a house of a very mean sort.
In that house and in the presence of Mrs. Mulraine they
prevailed upon this unfortunate victim to their artifices to put
her name to a paper.—Now I call upon them in the name
of justice to produce that paper! they must do it; I know
the nature of it; I know what it did contain; I know what
it does contain; and I demand of my learned friend (and I
am not using the language improperly, as he well knows)—
but I demand, in the name of my client, that my learned
friend does produce this day the paper which was signed by
this unfortunate girl, the day before she was prevailed upon
to leave her uncle’s house.
Gentlemen, Miss Glenn signed a paper, whatever it was,
and you will hear what it wras. She signed the paper, but
that was not enough for the purposes of this conspiracy; a
gentleman, whom this young lady described before she ever
saw him (for she saw him afterwards); —a gentleman came
into the house, whom she afterwards, when she saw him,
fixed upon as Mr. Oxenham, who is now sitting at the table;
she did not know Mr. Oxenham at that time; she was a
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