A public protest against the severe sentence passed upon Mr. William Roupell, the forger and late member of Parliament for Lambeth, with an account of his private life from the cradle to his father's death revealing the great secret of his crimes which he wrote in prison and refused to divulge
Subtitle: relating his eventful struggles his brilliant rise and his recipitate downfall and showing from the difference between his position and those of his brothers and sisters, how his fate was sealed from birth : also the necessity of making illegitimate children, legitimate after marriage
By: by a Friend of the family
Series: Making of modern law
Publisher: G. Abington
Published: 1862
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Will; Ejectment; Trials (Forgery)
Other titles: Life and confession of William Roupell, the convict forger and perjurer.
Notes: With: Life and confession of William Roupell, the convict forger and perjurer / written by himself in Horsemonger-Lane Gaol, Surrey : containing most extraordinary anecdotes of his career from his birth to the present time�his boyhood and its privations�his school-days�his youth and temptations�his reputed marriage and its results�his affection for Mrs. K-, the cause of all his troubles�his generosity�his love for gambling�the hells he used�who did his bills�the enormous price he paid�his reverses�a friend demands better security and threatens to denounce him�the will sought�signatures are compared�exposure inevitable�his flight�who succoured him�and every particular relating to this lamentable affair : never before published.

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