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A sheriff recounts the life of a smooth‑spoken stranger whose itinerant career combined domestic ties with furtive thefts and persistent trouble with authorities. The narrative traces repeated arrests, imprisonments, and astonishing escapes accomplished by feigned illness, cutting or breaking restraints, and sawing cell bars, alongside a period of apparent madness during which he fashions and animates marionettes from straw and torn cloth. Convicted and sentenced to death but later pardoned and transported, he subsequently reappears across neighboring regions, intermittently eluding capture while continuing a pattern of deception and resourceful criminality.

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Title: Henry More Smith: The Mysterious Stranger

Author: Walter Bates

Release date: June 24, 2021 [eBook #65686]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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HENRY MORE SMITH
The Mysterious Stranger

By WALTER BATES, Esquire
Sheriff of Kings County

Being an Authentic Account of the Numerous Arrests, Remarkable Doings and Wonderful Escapes of the Most Noted Road Agent who ever Pestered the Authorities of New Brunswick

PRINTED AT THE STRATHMORE PRESS SAINT JOHN, N. B., FOR JOHN A. BOWES PUBLISHER, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN