The New Student's Reference Work/Aram, Eugene

Aram (ä' ram), Eugene (born 1704, died 1759), an felon, born in Yorkshire. He had a good knowledge of a number of languages and became a schoolmaster. A man named Clark disappeared, leaving his debts unpaid, and Aram was tried as his accomplice. It was discovered later that he and another man had killed Clark. Aram made his own defense at his trial, but was convicted and hanged. He is known as the subject of a poem of and also of one of the novels of.