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The life, travels, exploits, frauds and robberies of Charles Speckman, alias Brown, who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday 23d of November, 1763

Chapter 1: THE Life, Travels, Exploits, Frauds and Robberies, OF Charles Speckman, alias Brown, Who was Executed at Tyburn, on Wednesday the 23d of November, 1763.
By Charles Speckman
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The narrator delivers a first-person confession of a lifelong career in theft and deception, tracing early inclinations into crime, escapes and a succession of ruses and schemes carried out across England, Scotland, Ireland, North America, and the West Indies over about fifteen years. He catalogues dozens of episodes and methods, claims hundreds of thefts and frauds, and recounts travels, imprisonments, and execution-bound reflections. Framing the account as both atonement and public warning, he intersperses practical maxims and tips aimed at preventing or detecting sharpers while also expressing remorse.

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Title: The life, travels, exploits, frauds and robberies of Charles Speckman, alias Brown, who was executed at Tyburn on Wednesday 23d of November, 1763

Author: Charles Speckman

Release date: April 9, 2023 [eBook #70512]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: J. Fuller, 1763

Credits: Bob Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIFE, TRAVELS, EXPLOITS, FRAUDS AND ROBBERIES OF CHARLES SPECKMAN, ALIAS BROWN, WHO WAS EXECUTED AT TYBURN ON WEDNESDAY 23D OF NOVEMBER, 1763 ***

THE
Life, Travels, Exploits,
Frauds and Robberies,
OF
Charles Speckman, alias Brown,
Who was Executed at Tyburn, on Wednesday the
23d of November, 1763.

By far the most dexterous of his Profession in this
or any other Country.

CONTAINING,

A genuine Recital of more than Five Hundred Thefts, Frauds, and Felonies, committed by him in England, Scotland, Ireland, North America, and the West Indies, during the Course of Fifteen Years.

WITH

Several Maxims, Hints, and Remarks, by Way of Caution to the Public, to prevent or detect the Designs of Sharpers and Thieves from being carried into Execution. The whole Narrative being wonderful and surprizing, and yet in all Respects strictly true.

Written by HIMSELF,
Whilst under Sentence of Death in Newgate.


LONDON:

Printed for J. Fuller, in Blowbladder-Street, near
Cheapside. M.dcc.lxiii.

[Price One Shilling.]

This Pamphlet written for the publick Good ONLY, is entered in the Hall-book of the Company of Stationers, and at the Stamp-office, whoever pirates or prints any Part of it, will be prosecuted to the utmost Rigour of the Law.