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The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent - but then the hangman had never hanged a guilty man, he said.
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Gallows Thief, Bernard Cornwell
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- 2002
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- Title
- Gallows Thief
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Bernard Cornwell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publisher
- 2002
- ISBN10
- 0007127944
- ISBN13
- 9780007127948
- Category
- Historical prose
- Description
- The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent - but then the hangman had never hanged a guilty man, he said.