The Power of Conscience, exemplified in the genuine and extraordinary confession of Thomas Bedworth / delivered to one of the principal officers of Newgate, the night before his execution on September 18, 1815, for the murder of Elizabeth Beesmore in Drury lane. Relating his horrible sufferings until compelled to surrender to public justice by the constant supernatural visitations of the murdered woman, and the frequent appearance of her apparition. From the original paper now in the possession of the publisher. Including interesting particulars of Bedworth's former life, his behaviour before execution, and an original and full report of the Common Serjeant's address on passing sentence.
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A condemned man delivers a first-person dying confession that traces his life from apprenticeship and military and naval service through marital betrayal and an illicit attachment that culminates in murder. He recounts remorse, alcohol-fueled rage, and persistent supernatural visitations by the murdered woman, which he interprets as the workings of conscience and which drive him to surrender. The pamphlet combines this personal narrative with biographical particulars, descriptions of his behaviour in prison and before the scaffold, and a contemporary report of the official address given at sentencing.
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