Narrative of the Life of James Allen, Alias George Walton, Alias Jonas Pierce, Alias James H. York, Alias Burley Grove, the Highwayman: Being His Death-Bed Confession, to the Warden of the Massachuset

Excerpt from Narrative of the Life of James Allen, Alias George Walton, Alias Jonas Pierce, Alias James H. York, Alias Burley Grove, the Highwayman: Being His Death-Bed Confession, to the Warden of the Massachusetts State Prison

Finding what was going on, I slipped the money from my mouth to my hand, and held it against the palm with my thumb, and again eluded discovery. Next morning myhair was cut short, and I Was put to the employment of stone cutting. I soon discovered that money was useful in prison as well as outside: various articles could be obtain ed by means of teamsters and others, visiting the prison on business: even mm was not difficult to be got by those who wanted it.

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