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Written by paulecwilliams

New Book Release

I am pleased to announce the release of my fifth book. Spring Onions: His Life and Crimes is available in electronic formats and print from reputable sellers. William Onion was notorious as Britain’s most convicted man, allegedly being arrested over a thousand times before giving up alcohol and reforming as a street poet in his […]

Written by paulecwilliams

Onion called a disgrace to humanity

In August 1882 London magistrates began to lose patience with William Onion. Earlier that year he accepted a new life in Quebec with his travel paid by a benefactor. On the train going to the boat he absconded and went on a drunken rampage in Canning Town. The media claimed he had over two-hundred convictions. […]