The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange And Curious Punishments
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A Newbern paper says: "In the saddle-bags of this servant of God and Mammon were found his Bible and a complete apparatus for the stamping and milling of Dollars. " ------------------------- _THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT_ Was held at Ipswich on Tuesday last. At this Court the noted Josiah Abbot was found guilty of knowingly passing a forged and altered State Note, and was sentenced to pay a fine of 40l. In 20 days; if not then paid, to be set in the pillory. --[_The penalty of such an offence aga...inst the United States is_ DEATH. ] The same person was found guilty of a fraud, in stealing a summons, after it had been left by an officer, by reason of which he recovered a judgment by default, and was sentenced to pay a fine of 15l. In 20 days; if not then paid, to be whipped. _Salem Gazette_, June 25, 1793. ------------------------- In a paper of 1819 is mentioned the singular case of a man literallycondemned "to eat his own words. " _INCREDIBLE PUNISHMENT.
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