The extraordinary confession, life, and singular adventures, of Wolfe  who was thirty years a notorious robber, murderer, and Captain of a Gang of Fifty-Three Thieves. To which is added The wandering fugitive; or The surprising escapes of Frederic Winson, an Assasin.

The lives of noted highwaymen viz , Du Vall, Atkinson, Rowland, Withrington, Duglas, Uratz, Osborn, Waters, Fleeming, Gilder Roy, Jones, Hinton, Dorbel, Wilmot.

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The extraordinary confession, life, and singular adventures, of Wolfe who was thirty years a notorious robber, murderer, and Captain of a Gang of Fifty-Three Thieves. To which is added The wandering fugitive; or The surprising escapes of Frederic Winson, an Assasin.

The lives of noted highwaymen viz , Du Vall, Atkinson, Rowland, Withrington, Duglas, Uratz, Osborn, Waters, Fleeming, Gilder Roy, Jones, Hinton, Dorbel, Wilmot.