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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: that she consented to become his mistress, and from that moment
discarding the name of Bailey is known to history as Mrs.
Thompson.
Life in Nottingham was varied pleasantly by burglaries carried
out with the help of information supplied by Mrs. Adamson. In
the June of 1877 Peace was nearly detected in stealing, at the
request of that worthy, some blankets, but by flourishing his
revolver he contrived to get away, and, soon after, returned for
a season to Hull. Here this hunted murderer, with L100 reward
on his head, took rooms for Mrs. Thompson and himself at the
house of a sergeant of police. One day Mrs. Peace, who was still
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