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id: 61133
author: Banta, Frank
title: The Happy Homicide
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words: 1370
sentence: 139
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Forty-year-old John Bork listened while the prosecutor read the indictment against him: --and the same John Bork did on the twelfth day of March, 1986, fire a pistol at his wife, having then and there a long preconceived desire to kill her, and then and there did achieve his felonious intent, and did murder the same Fannie Bork. Oh, Winston! cooed dead Fannie Bork, her aims raising from the cot to embrace an invisible something.


id: 58773
author: Love, Joe
title: Les Machines
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 3767
sentence: 444
flesch: 95
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txt: txt/58773.txt
summary:
  Must be a queer one that Isobel d'Larte. Her shrew-like eyes flicked sharply towards Isobel d'Larte then away.


id: 15894
author: Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
title: The Lifted Bandage
extension: .txt
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words: 5955
sentence: 403
flesch: 90
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summary:
  You'll be sorry to hear, Miller, he said--and the dull eyes moved difficultly to the anxious ones, and his voice was uninflected--you'll be sorry to know that the coroner's jury decided that Master Jack was a murderer. It's not any mere lawyers can make me believe that awful thing, sir, of our Master Jack.


id: 33661
author: Daniels, Thomas
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 7182
sentence: 278
flesch: 73
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title:
  The Affecting Case of the Unfortunate Thomas Daniels Who Was Tried at the Sessions Held at the Old Bailey, September, 1761, for the Supposed Murder of His Wife; by Casting Her out of a Chamber Window: and for Which He Was Sentenced to Die, but Received His Majesty's Most Gracious and Free Pardon.

summary:
  In the course of my trial, the coroner laid some stress on the absence of _Charles Hilliard_, the lodger under my room; but Mr. _ Hilliard_ appeared however before the sessions were concluded, to save his recognizances: he then deposed before the judges, all he knew relative to the accident; which being materially the same with the evidence he gave at the coroner's inquest, and as I have no reason to wish it suppressed, I made it my business to request Mr. _Hilliard_ to recollect the whole of it, which he was kind enough to give me in writing; and here it is.


id: 60467
author: Riley, Frank
title: A Question of Identity
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 9636
sentence: 594
flesch: 78
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summary:
  By means of projection on a large screen, Jake demonstrated to the jurors and Judge Hayward that Tony Corfino, defendant, had an entirely different electrocardiagram from the Tony Corfino whose crushed body had been pulled, more dead than alive, from the wreckage of a burning automobile. Any mule can kick a barn down; it takes a good carpenter to build one, he had once told Jake. Selection of the jury proceeded at a creeping pace, which court reporters had come to expect with both the D.A. and Jake Emspak in the same courtroom.


id: 41380
author: Mac Gregor, George
extension: .txt
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words: 10576
sentence: 421
flesch: 74
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title:
  The History of Burke and Hare, and of the Resurrectionist Times A Fragment from the Criminal Annals of Scotland

summary:
  quickly, then, Show she does not make brutes of _lect'ring_ men. Ah!--can'st thou, with cold indifference see The hand of execration point to thee? Can'st thou, unmov'd, bear a whole nation's cry, To cleanse thyself from the polluted sty Of Burke, and Hare, and all that fiendish crew, Who, for mere gain, their fellow-mortals slew, And sold to thee, as thou hast not denied, Such bodies as by students were descried Ne'er to have been interred, nay, bore, some say, Strong marks of life, by violence reft away? And thou didst not attempt the truth to find, Though oft it must have flash'd across thy mind; But with a reckless carelessness, receiv'd Whate'er was brought,[1] and any lie believ'd, Told by the gang, whose very forms do show They would not tell thee aught thou did'st not know, Or should'st have known, if true thy Science says, That marks of death by _Murder_ any ways May well be seen, when the dissecting knife Opens all the sure and secret seats of life.[2] Art thou a Scotsman ----?


id: 26133
author: Scott, Walter
extension: .txt
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words: 17487
sentence: 397
flesch: 51
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txt: txt/26133.txt
title:
  Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot

summary:
  ELLIOT. LAUCHLAN M'INTOSH, in Inverey, aged near thirty years, unmarried, solemnly sworn, purged of malice and partial council, examined and interrogate by the sworn interpreter aforesaid, Depones, That the panel, Duncan Clerk's father, his house is within less than a quarter of a mile of the deponent's house: That upon the afternoon of that day in which Serjeant Davies was amissing, as he thinks, or at least the afternoon of the day following, he cannot be altogether positive which, he saw Duncan Clerk, panel, come from the hill to his father's house, with a gun in his hand, and a sort of grey plaid about him: That he does not remember that he saw him about his father's house before that time in the afternoon of that day. Depones, That after she was married, the deponent asked her if she had a gold ring, and she answered she never had one but one which was her mother's, which made the deponent suppose that the said ring with the knob had been her mother's; and depones, that the panel, her husband, was in prison when he asked her this question: Depones, That at first there was a report in the country that Serjeant Davies had deserted, then it was supposed that he had been killed by the thieves, but last of all, the report was, that he had been killed by the prisoners, and that has continued to be the report of the country for these three years: And being asked what he took to be the grounds of that report, Depones, that he took it to be, that Macdonald, as Lord Bracco's forrester, had a warrant for carrying guns for killing of deer, and he carried Clerk alongst with him, and none other of the country had any warrant to carry arms; but he heard that some of the people in the country suspected that the ring with the knob that he had seen on Elizabeth Downie's finger was Serjeant Davies's ring; and being interrogate as to the character of the two panels, depones, that he has heard Clerk habite and repute a sheep-stealer, but that he never heard any thing of Macdonald, but that he once broke the chest of one Corbie, and took some money out of it: Depones, That he never heard Clerk get the character of a good deer-stalker, though he could shoot wild fowl: Depones, That Alexander Macpherson, before mentioned, once served the deponent's father, and is accounted an honest lad; but on the panel's interrogatory, Depones, that he has been charged with telling of stories, and that all is not to be believed that he says; though that is the general character, the deponent knows no reason for it: Depones, That Duncan Clerk once pursued his accusers before a Sheriff Court at Braemar, and freed himself at that time, and, as he heard, got some mends of his accusers, but what it was he knows not: That the only particular act of theft he heard him accused of, was the stealing of a parcel of sheep from Alexander Farquharson in Inverey, and which was the ground of the process before mentioned before the Sheriff: Depones, That the Sabbath before the Serjeant was amissing, a woman came to the deponent's father's house, and told them that, coming through the hills, she had seen four thieves in arms, who had separated fourteen of his father's cattle, upon which the Serjeant, with a party, went in quest of them immediately, but could find none of them, they having, it seems, gone off and left the cattle: Depones, That upon the Friday, the twenty-ninth of September, the corporal stationed at Glenshee met with the deponent at the fair of Kirkmichael, while the deponent was buying a pair of shoes, and he told the corporal that they were for Serjeant Davies, and the corporal told him that he had parted with the Serjeant the day before at the Water of Benow; the Serjeant, after that, was going to the hill to get a shot of the deer; which Water of Benow is about half a mile's distance from the place where the patrolling parties used to meet: Depones, That the prisoner Clerk was a common dealer in buying of sheep and cattle; and the deponent has seen him both buying and paying the price, and his father was reputed one of the richest tenants in Inverey's grounds.


id: 29569
author: Unknown
title: The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan, or: the Headless Horror.
extension: .txt
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words: 34404
sentence: 1706
flesch: 76
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summary:
  Through Jackson Pearl Bryan was brought to Cincinnati, and the evidence tracing her will be established beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the decapitation was done by one who is deft in using the knife, as he is known to be. Along in the latter part of 1894, Scott Jackson with his mother moved to Greencastle, Ind., from Jersey City, N. J. One of Mrs. Jackson's daughters, the wife of Dr. Edwin Post, of Depauw University, had lived at Greencastle for many years, and Mrs. Jackson moved there to get near her daughter.


id: 33207
author: Saltus, Edgar
title: The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 41912
sentence: 3784
flesch: 90
cache: cache/33207.txt
txt: txt/33207.txt
summary:
  That was Mrs. Annandale, he announced unabashedly, a very old friend of mine. It is Mrs. Annandale, his client returned with some hauteur.


id: 30910
author: Upward, Allen
title: The Queen Against Owen
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 45079
sentence: 2839
flesch: 83
cache: cache/30910.txt
txt: txt/30910.txt
summary:
  'On the night of the first of June last Mr. Lewis, deceased's nephew, left the house about 10 o'clock and did not return that night. 'Mr. Tressamer is inside, sir.


id: 53085
author: Farjeon, B. L. (Benjamin Leopold)
title: The Nine of Hearts: A Novel
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 46882
sentence: 3578
flesch: 83
cache: cache/53085.txt
txt: txt/53085.txt
summary:
  On the following morning, having paved the way to further access to Mr. Edward Layton, I visited the unhappy man in his prison. One of these was Mr. Edward Layton, the other Mr. Archibald Laing.


id: 58502
author: Bisson, Alexandre
title: Madame X: a story of mother-love
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 57717
sentence: 4451
flesch: 90
cache: cache/58502.txt
txt: txt/58502.txt
summary:
  About this time two men who had never even heard of any of the characters in this story-excepting M. Floriot, for whom they entertained a marked respect and hearty dislike, although he did not know of their existence--sat down one morning and wrote a letter, the effect of which was far beyond their foresight or wildest imaginings. M. Floriot had written that he would come over from Toulouse to watch his son handle his first case, and M. Valmorin planned to talk things over with him then.


id: 55420
author: Hume, Fergus
title: For the Defence
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 57406
sentence: 3835
flesch: 85
cache: cache/55420.txt
txt: txt/55420.txt
summary:
  The collateral branches of the old Sarby family had died out; the relatives on the mother's side refused to have anything to do with a child who, if heredity went for anything, might prove to be a chip of the old block; and little David might have found himself thrown on the parish, but that Major Jen, pitying the forlorn condition of the child, saved him from so ignominious a fate. The warm light of the evening flashed on the polished table--Major Jen was sufficiently old-fashioned to have the cloth removed for desert--and lighted up the four faces around it with pale splendor.


id: 36854
author: Franzos, Karl Emil
title: The Chief Justice: A Novel
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 68127
sentence: 4065
flesch: 82
cache: cache/36854.txt
txt: txt/36854.txt
summary:
  We beg you to keep this salt-cellar on your table, so that your heart may be always rejoiced by the gift of poor men whose benefactor you have been. Well then; I know your father; he is my best friend, a man so noble and good, so upright and full of heart, as are few men on this poor earth.


id: 5162
author: Green, Anna Katharine
title: Agatha Webb
extension: .txt
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words: 90457
sentence: 4703
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Mr. Frederick Sutherland, will you take the stand? Which made me think of other men who wore beards.


id: 55642
author: Hume, Fergus
title: The Sacred Herb
extension: .txt
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words: 85755
sentence: 5478
flesch: 85
cache: cache/55642.txt
txt: txt/55642.txt
summary:
  Lord Prelice lighted another cigarette, and resumed the conversation, which the episode of Jadby's entrance had interrupted. While the barrister was giving his evidence Lord Prelice was called to Cudworth's side, and introduced by Dr. Horace.


id: 12640
title: Trial of Mary Blandy
extension: .txt
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words: 98891
sentence: 3946
flesch: 72
cache: cache/12640.txt
txt: txt/12640.txt
summary:
  One morning, Mary states, Cranstoun put some of the magic powder in the old gentleman's tea, when, _mirabile dictu_, Mr. Blandy, who at breakfast had been very cross, appeared at dinner in the best of humours, and continued so all the time Mr. Cranstoun stayed with him! KING'S COUNSEL--Was anything more said by the prisoner or you?--I asked her whether she had been so weak as to believe the powder that she had put into her father's tea and gruel so harmless as Mr. Cranstoun had represented it; why Mr. Cranstoun had called it a powder to clean pebbles if it was intended only to make Mr. Blandy kind; why she had not tried it on herself before she ventured to try it on her father; why she had flung it into the fire; why, if she had really thought it innocent, she had been fearful of a discovery when part of it swam on the top of the tea; why, when she had found it hurtful to her father, she had neglected so many days to call proper assistance to him; and why, when I was called at last, she had endeavoured to keep me in the dark and hide the true cause of his illness.


id: 39826
author: Pangborn, Edgar
title: The Trial of Callista Blake
extension: .txt
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words: 102895
sentence: 6654
flesch: 84
cache: cache/39826.txt
txt: txt/39826.txt
summary:
  Did Callista Blake, while you had hold of her, tell you that she was ill, that she had had a miscarriage the night before? Is Callista Blake subject to periods of depression, Miss Nolan?


id: 38238
title: The Old Yellow Book: Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book
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words: 109462
sentence: 4244
flesch: 67
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summary:
  CONTENTS PAGE Sentence of the Criminal Court of Florence in the criminal case against Gregorio Guillichini, Francesca Pompilia Comparini, wife of Guido Franceschini, etc. December 1697 5 Argument in defence of the said Franceschini of the Honourable Signor Giacinto Arcangeli, Procurator of the Poor in Rome, made before the congregation of Monsignor the Governor 9 Argument of the Honourable Signor Advocate Desiderio Spreti, Advocate of the Poor, in defence of said Franceschini and his associates 25 Argument of the abovesaid Signor Arcangeli in defence of Biagio Agostinelli and his companions in crime 39 Summary of fact made in behalf of the Fisc 47 Argument of Signor Francesco Gambi, Procurator of the Fisc and of the Reverend Apostolic Chamber, against the abovesaid Franceschini and his companions in crime 63 Argument of Signor Giovanni Battista Bottini, Advocate of the Fisc and of the Reverend Apostolic Chamber, against the abovesaid 73 Summary of fact in behalf of Franceschini and his associates in crime 87 Another Argument of the abovesaid Signor Arcangeli in favour and defence of the abovesaid 107 Another Argument of Signor Advocate Spreti in favour of the above 131 An Account of the facts and grounds, made and given by an Anonymous Author 145 Another Summary made on behalf of the Fisc 157 Argument of Signor Gambi, Procurator of the Fisc, against the abovesaid Franceschini and his companions 163 Another Argument of the Signor Giovanni Battista Bottini, Advocate of the Fisc 169 Another Argument of the abovesaid against the said Defendants 197 A Response of the abovesaid account of fact as given by the Anonymous Author 209 Argument of Signor Advocate Spreti in favour of Franceschini, etc. 227 Letter written by the Honourable Signor Giacinto Arcangeli, Procurator of the Poor, to Monsignore Francesco Cencini in Florence, in which he tells him that the sentence of death had been executed in Rome against the guilty on February 22, 1698--that is, that Franceschini had been beheaded, and the other four hanged 235 Two other Letters, one written by Signor Gaspero del Torto and the other by Signor Carlo Antonio Ugolinucci to the aforesaid Monsignore Francesco Cencini 237 Argument of Signor Antonio Lamparelli, Procurator of the Poor in the said case 239 The Sentence of Signor Marco Antonio Venturini, Judge in Criminal causes, which declares that the said adultery was not proved, and which restores to her original fame the memory of Francesca Pompilia Comparini, wife of Guido Franceschini 253 THE SECONDARY SOURCE OF THE RING AND THE BOOK 257 TRIAL AND DEATH OF FRANCESCHINI AND HIS COMPANIONS 267 NOTES AND COMMENT 283 _Francesca Pompilia_, foster daughter of the Comparini, _b._


id: 6942
author: Scott, Walter
title: The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1
extension: .txt
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words: 110255
sentence: 3446
flesch: 62
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summary:
  The sweetness, the courage, the spirit, the integrity of Jeanie Deans have made her, of all Scott's characters, the dearest to her countrymen, and the name of Jeanie was given to many children, in pious memory of the blameless heroine. Hetty and Dinah are in very much the same situation and condition as Effie and Jeanie Deans.


id: 42973
author: Farjeon, B. L. (Benjamin Leopold)
title: The House of the White Shadows
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words: 134035
sentence: 8166
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Said one: I have not set eyes upon this man-monster, but I shall know him if I meet him in the light. Christian Almer is different from other men; that is your own opinion of him.


id: 6943
author: Scott, Walter
title: The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 131429
sentence: 3939
flesch: 62
cache: cache/6943.txt
txt: txt/6943.txt
summary:
  Ye musquet and calliver-men, Do you prove true to me, I'll be the foremost man in fight, Said brave Lord Willoughbee. When the meal was finished, the Captain proposed to them to take boat, in order that Mrs. Jeanie might see her new place of residence, and that he himself might inquire whether the necessary preparations had been made there, and at the Manse, for receiving the future inmates of these mansions.


id: 2153
author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
title: Mary Barton
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 166515
sentence: 8247
flesch: 84
cache: cache/2153.txt
txt: txt/2153.txt
summary:
  Margaret had still, you see, little or no belief in Jem's innocence; and besides, she thought if Mary saw Will, and heard herself from him that Jem had not been with him that Thursday night, it would in a measure break the force of the blow which was impending. For Job was muttering away in high dudgeon, and even Margaret's tone was altered as she wished Mary good night.


id: 3744
author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
title: The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain
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words: 184933
sentence: 8444
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Tom's last words, as he drew up under the lime-trees before the door, were, 'Mind, I am only going about the 'Diseases of Climate'.' CHAPTER XXVI And Bishop Gawain as he rose, Said, 'Wilton, grieve not for thy woes, Disgrace and trouble; For He who honour best bestows, Can give thee double. Late in the afternoon he reached Stoneborough, found no one come in, and sat down in the fire-light, where, for all his impatience, fatigue had made him drop asleep, when he was roused by Gertrude's voice, exclaiming, 'Here really is Tom come, as you said he would, without writing.


