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Foreign News November 18, 1786

Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

What is this article about?

London report on French Juriconsul Mr. Cauchois, who saved Maria Salmon from execution, marking the sixth such rescue, including cases from 1774, 1779, a midwife, and a Dieppe surgeon.

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London, July 20. Mr. Cauchois (the French Juriconsul, who at the expense of his fortune, so bravely saved the life of Maria Salmon) seems destined by Heaven to be the guardian angel of the innocent condemned. Maria Salmon is the sixth victim he has snatched from the hangman's hands. In the year 1774, he saved from ignominy and death a young man falsely accused and as wrongfully condemned. In 1779, a poor man ordered to the galleys for a crime his weak state of body could not permit him to perpetrate. The third, whose life he preserved, was the pretended accomplice of this last one. A midwife accused of different crimes in her profession, and condemned to be hanged, found in Mr. Cauchois an asserter of her innocence; as did also a surgeon at Dieppe, who was said to have poisoned a whole family. Maria Salmon concludes, for the present, the glorious list of those whose lives he has prolonged. Such an advocate deserves well both of his country and of mankind.

What sub-type of article is it?

Court News

What keywords are associated?

Mr Cauchois Maria Salmon Saved From Execution French Juriconsul Wrongful Convictions Dieppe Surgeon

What entities or persons were involved?

Mr. Cauchois Maria Salmon

Where did it happen?

France

Foreign News Details

Primary Location

France

Event Date

July 20

Key Persons

Mr. Cauchois Maria Salmon

Outcome

six individuals saved from execution or severe punishment

Event Details

Mr. Cauchois, French Juriconsul, saved Maria Salmon from hanging; previously rescued a young man in 1774, a poor man in 1779, his pretended accomplice, a midwife accused of professional crimes, and a Dieppe surgeon accused of poisoning a family.

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