Excerpt from Report of the Attorney General to the Legislature of Massachusetts: January 2, 1833 These Reports and Abstracts are completed to the lst November last, the provisions of the Statute and the requisite uniformity of them appearing to make that the preper period of annual return. It Will not fail to strike the Legislature as a remarkable fact in the history of crime within this Commonwealth, that within the short period of five months, embraced in this Report, there have been eight men and one woman charged in various ways with capital offences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.