A WARNING VOICE FROM A PENITENT CONVICT.
The life, hardships, and dreadful sufferings of CHARLES ADOLPHUS KING, who was tried at Liverpool Assizes, for returning from Transportation. With an affecting speech he made to the Judge, imploring him to hang him, instead of sending him to Norfolk Isle, and the manner of treating run-away convicts, with a copy of verses. Edited by Charles A. O. Fox. Pp. [24]; printed paper wrappers, a trifle marked; Swansea, 1956. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the editor. *IN 1835, aged seventeen, King was sentenced to fourteen years transportation to Australia for burglary. This is a reprint of the first of three accounts of his adventures published between 1840 and 1850. Item #045382
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