Eugene Aram told the court he labored not with guilt, but with perplexity, while facing the awful concourse at his trial.
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A highway-robbery chronicle that turns survival, guilt, and punishment into one stern ledger.
William Page moves from a promising Hampton boy to a life that ends in highway robbery and execution, and the two near-drowning escapes in his early years are framed as signs that the story was always turning toward ruin.
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