The Complete Newgate Calendar
Volume III
| JACK SHEPPARD A daring housebreaker, who made ingenious escapes from prison and even tried to foil his executioner at Tyburn on 16th of November, 1724. |
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| ROBERT HARPHAM Under the pretence of making buttons he made coins, and was executed at Tyburn, 24th of May, 1725. |
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| JONATHAN WILD Director of a corporation of thieves, and a most famous receiver. Executed at Tyburn, 24th of May, 1725 |
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| CATHERINE HAYES Who with others foully murdered her husband, and was burned alive on the 9th of May, 1726. |
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| RICHARD SAVAGE, ESQ. (THE CELEBRATED POET, SON OF THE EARL OF RIVERS AND THE UNNATURAL COUNTESS OF MACCLESFIELD), JAMES GREGORY, ESQ., AND WILLIAM MERCHANT, ESQ. Murderers who escaped death. |
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| MARGARET DIXON . Who was married a few days after she was hanged for murder in 1728. |
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| EDWARD BELLAMY A daring shop-robber, who was executed at Tyburn on 27th of March, 1728. |
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| JOHN EVERETT Highwayman, turnkey and ale-house keeper. Executed at Tyburn, 20th of February, 1729. |
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| MAJOR JOHN ONEBY Who murdered a man in a duel and cheated the gallows, 1729. |
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| JOHN GOW Captain of a notorious gang of pirates. Executed at Execution Dock, 11th of August, 1729, for piracy. |
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| SIR SIMON CLARKE, BART., AND LIEUTENANT ROBERT ARNOTT Convicted as highwaymen in 1731, but afterwards reprieved |
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| JONATHAN HAWKINS Who played cards after committing a double murder and arson near Wells. Executed 14th of April, 1732. |
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| ISAAC AND THOMAS HALLAM Murderers and highwaymen, hanged in Lincolnshire, 20th of February, 1733, upon the spot where they committed their crime. |
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| SARAH MALCOLM Executed for the murder of a wealthy old lady in the Inns of Court, 7th of March, 1733. |
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| THOMAS CARR, AN ATTORNEY, AND ELIZABETH ADAMS Executed at Tyburn, 18th of January, 1738, for robbery. |
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| WILLIAM UDALL A profligate apprentice, who turned highwayman. Executed at Tyburn, 14th of March, 1738 |
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| JOSEPH JOHNSON Pickpocket and "esquire," who swindled many farmers and was executed at Tyburn, 19th of July, 1738, at the age of sixty. |
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| WILLIAM NEWINGTON A writer, who forged a draft for one hundred and twenty pounds and was executed at Tyburn on 26th of August, 1738. |
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| GEORGE PRICE Sentenced to death for murdering his wife, but died of jail fever, 22nd of October, 1738 |
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| RICHARD TURPIN A famous highway robber, who shot dead one of his own comrades, and was executed at York on 7th of April, 1739 |
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| THOMAS LYMPUS Executed near Wells, in Somersetshire, 21st of September, 1739, for robbing the mail. |
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| THOMAS BARKWITH An accomplished scholar and linguist, who was executed at Tyburn, 21st of December, 1739, for robbery. |
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| MARY YOUNG ALIAS JENNY DIVER The head of a gang of thieves of every description. Executed at Tyburn, 18th of March, 1740 |
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| ELIZABETH AND MARY BRANCH Mother and daughter, executed at Ivelchester on the 3rd of May, 1740, for murdering a girl |
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| WILLIAM DUELL Executed for murder and came to life again while being prepared for dissection in Surgeons' Hall, 24th of November, 1740. |
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| CAPTAIN SAMUEL GOODERE, A FRATRICIDE; MATTHEW MAHONY AND CHARLES WHITE Executed for the murder of Sir John Dinely Goodere, Bart. at the Hot Wells, Bristol, 20th of April, 1741 |
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| HENRY COOK Notorious horse-stealer and highwayman, executed at Tyburn, 16th of December, 1741 |
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| JONATHAN BRADFORD Executed at Oxford for a murder he had contemplated but did not commit. |
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| JOHN BODKIN, DOMINICK BODKIN AND OTHERS Executed in Ireland on 26th of March 1742, for the murder of eleven persons. |
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| THOMAS LYELL AND LAWRENCE SYDNEY Swindlers, who cheated with loaded dice and were pilloried for fraud, 2nd of June, 1742 |
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| ROBERT RAMSEY Highwayman, and a singular cheat. Executed at Tyburn on the 13th of June, 1742. |
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| ROBERT FULLER Convicted of shooting Mr Bailey, June Sessions, 1743, and pardoned because he was wrongly identified. |
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| WILLIAM CHETWYND A curious case of a schoolboy who killed another boy during a quarrel about a cake, and was convicted of manslaughter, October, 1743 |
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| LYDIA ADLER Burned in the hand for killing her husband, who had four wives. June Sessions, Old Bailey, 1744 |
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| PATRICK BOURKE AND GEORGE ELLIS Executed at Tyburn, 2th of February, 1745, for sheep- stealing |
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| MATTHEW HENDERSON Executed in Oxford Street, 25th of February, 1746, for murdering his mistress, Lady Dalrymple, who was angry because he trod on her toe. |
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| MARY HAMILTON A woman who was imprisoned and whipped for marrying fourteen women, 1746 |
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| LORD LOVAT Beheaded for high treason, at the age of eighty, on 9th of April, 1747 |
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| GEORGE LANCASTER Executed at Tyburn, 16th of November, 1747, for forging a seaman's will, in order to rob his wife and child. |
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| HENRY SIMMS The extraordinary career of a youth, who was executed at Tyburn, 16th of November, 1747, after returning from transportation, for highway robbery. |
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| WILLIAM YORK " The Boy Murderer," convicted of the murder of another child in the poorhouse of Eyke, in Suffolk, May, 1748 |
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| GEORGE COCK A most plausible scoundrel, executed at Tyburn, 13th of June, 1748, for privately stealing |
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| JOHN WHITMORE AND JEREMIAH DAWES . Of the University of Oxford. Convicted and punished for sedition, 28th of November, 1748. |
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| BENJAMIN TAPNER, JOHN COBBY, JOHN HAMMOND, RICHARD MILLS, RICHARD MILLS THE YOUNGER, AND OTHERS Revengeful smugglers, who were executed for a diabolical murder, 18th of January, 1749 |
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| USHER GAHAGAN AND TERENCE CONNER Erudite men, who were executed for high treason, in diminishing the current coin of the realm, 28th of February, 1749 |
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| JOHN COLLINGTON A man of extraordinary violence and inhumanity. Executed at Canterbury with his accomplice, John Stone, for setting fire to a barn. |
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| RICHARD COLEMAN Who was executed on Kennington Common, in Surrey, 12th of April, 1749, for a murder be did not commit. |
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| THOMAS KINGSMILL, FAIRALL AND PERIN Three of the thirty smugglers who broke open the custom-house at Poole, and were executed at Tyburn, 26th of April, 1749 |
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| JOHN MILLS His father and brother were hanged, and be suffered a similar fate on Slendon Common, Sussex, 12th of August, 1749, |
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| ROBERT COX Late captain's clerk of the Royal George man-of-war. Executed at Winchester, ist of September, 1749, for forging seamen's tickets. |
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| ANN FLYNN A sad case with a humorous sequel. |
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| CAPTAIN CLARKE, R.N. Convicted and condemned to be hanged for the murder of Captain Innis, in a duel, and pardoned, 12th of June, 1750. |
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| JAMES MACLANE Called "The Gentleman Highwayman." Executed at Tyburn, 3rd of October, 1750, for highway robbery. |
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| AMY HUTCHINSON . Executed at Ely, 7th of November, 1750, for petit treason, in the murder of her husband. |
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| JOHN VICARS Executed at Ely, 7th of November, 1750, for the murder of his wife, after first witnessing the strangling of a woman for murdering her husband. |
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| JOHN CARR The victim of swindlers himself, he became a pirate and smuggler, and was executed at Tyburn, 16th of November, 1750, for forgery. |
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| GEORGE ANDERSON ALIAS JOHN EVERETT Who picked pockets at Newgate, became a highwayman, and was executed for stealing ribbons, 31st of December, 1750 |
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| WILLIAM RILEY A young soldier, whose zeal for sport led to a murder, for which he was executed at Tyburn in 1750 |
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| WILLIAM PARSONS, ESQ. Eldest son of a baronet, who became a swindler and highway robber., and was executed for returning from transportation, 11th of February, 1751. |
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| JOHN CAULFIELD Murder foretold by a dream, in consequence of which the murderer was apprehended, convicted, and executed at Water- ford in 1751 |
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| THOMAS COLLEY Executed 24th of April, 1751, for the murder of people who were reputed to be possessed of witchcraft. |
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| WILLIAM DELLICOT Convicted of petty larceny, in July, 1751, and his estate forfeited for stealing a penny. |
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| JAMES WELCH AND THOMAS JONES Executed on Kennington Common, 6th of September, 1751, for murder. |
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| MATHIAS KEYS Executed on Kennington Common, 6th of September,1751, for highway robbery |
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| WILLIAM BAKER A city merchant, executed at Tyburn, 31st of December, 1751, for forging an East India warrant in order to avoid bankruptcy |
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| WILLIAM STROUD A notorious impostor, who was six times whipped through the streets of Westminster, in the month of March, 1752. |
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| ELIZABETH JEFFRIES AND JOHN SWAN Deprived of her uncle's valuable estate, the woman and an accomplice shot him dead after paying another man to commit the crime. Executed in Epping Forest, 28th of March, 1752. |
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| MARY BLANDY Executed 6th of April, 1752, for murdering her father at the request of her lover. |
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| JOHN M'CANNELLY AND LUKE MORGAN A daring burglary committed in the house of Mr Porter, of the Raike Farmhouse, near Chester, by M'Cannelly, Morgan, Stanley, Boyd and Neill, Irish haymakers, for which the first two were executed on the 25th of May, 1752. |
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| THOMAS WILFORD A cripple, who murdered his wife in a fit of jealousy, and was executed at Tyburn on the 22nd of June, 1752. |
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| MOSES MORAVIA AND JOHN MANOURY Convicted at the Old Bailey, 27th of June, 1752, for sinking a ship and swindling insurers. |
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| ANN WHALE AND SARAH PLEDGE . Ann Whale, strangled and then burned, for the murder of her husband; and Sarah Pledge, hanged for being her accomplice, 14th of August, 1752, at Horshamy in Sussex. |
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| CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON AND JOHN STOCKDALE Executed at Tyburn, 3rd of July, 1753, and their bodies hanged in chains, for murder. |
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| WILLIAM SMITH Executed at York, 14th of August, 1753, for poisoning Thomas Harper, his stepfather, and his two children, William and Anne Harper. |
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| JOHN HAMBLETON A soldier of the Guards, executed at Tyburn, 10th of December, 1753, for the murder of Mr Crouch. |
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| CAPTAIN JOHN LANCEY Executed at Execution Dock, 7th of June, 1754, for burning a ship at the instigation of a Member of Parliament. |
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| ROBERT ALSOP, A MIDSHIPMAN, AND SIX SEAMEN Convicted in 1755 for committing a riot in the City of London, and impressing a citizen thereof, but treated leniently in order that they might fight against France |
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| JOHN BERRY, STEPHEN M'DANIEL, JAMES EGAN, JAMES SALMON AND ---- BLEE A new species of murderers, who conspired against the lives of many innocent men. |
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| BLI GONZALEZ ALIAS JOHN SYMMONDS ALIAS SPANISH JACK After a varied criminal career he was finally executed at Maidstone, 18th of April, 1756, for stealing a silver tankard. |
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| LIEUTENANT JOHN LANDER Executed on Pennenden Heath., in Kent, 16th of August, 1756, for murder |
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| WILLIAM CANNICOTT Executed at Tyburn, 20th of September, 1756, for the murder of his wife. |
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| EDWARD MORGAN Executed and hung in chains at Glamorgan, 6th of April, 1757, for murdering a family and burning down their house. |
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| JOHN YOUNG Convicted of crimping, or kidnapping, young men for the service of the East India Company, 27th of April, 1757 |
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| THE REV. JOHN GRIERSON AND THE REV. MR WILKINSON Transported for unlawfully performing the marriage ceremony in 1757. A glimpse into a shameful custom which led to the passing of the Marriage Act in 1754 |
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| WILLIAM ADAMS A custom-house officer in London, executed at Tyburn on the 18th of May, 1757, for forgery |
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| WILLIAM PAGE A gentleman of the road who drove in a phaeton and pair, and after many adventures was executed for highway robbery on 6th of April, 1758 |
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| JAMES WHITE AND WALTER WHITE Brothers who were executed at Kennington Common, 19th of April, 1758, for robbery with violence |
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| MARY EDMONDSON Strongly protesting her innocence, she was executed on Kennington Common, 2nd of April, 1759, for the murder of her aunt. |
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| JOHN STEVENSON Convicted of the manslaughter of Francis Elcock, an attorney- at-law, who had issued a writ against him. |
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| EUGENE ARAM A self-educated man, with remarkable linguistic attainments, who was executed at York on 6th of August, 1759, for a murder discovered fourteen years after its commission. |
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| JOHN AYLIFFE, ESQ. Commissary of Musters in the War Office. Executed at Tyburn, 7th of November', 1759, for forgery. |
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| WILLIAM ANDREW HORNE, ESQ. Executed at Nottingham, 11th of December, 1759, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, for murder, concealed twenty-five years. |
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| MUNGO CAMPBELL A gentleman, who was convicted of killing the Earl of Eglinton, and to avoid an ignominious death hanged himself, 18th of February, 1760 |
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| ROBERT TILLING Executed at Tyburn, 28th of April, 1760, for robbing his master. |
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| LAURENCE, EARL FERRERS Executed at Tyburn, 5th of May, 1760, for the murder of his steward, after a trial before his peers. |
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| FRANCIS DAVID STIRN Convicted of murder, but poisoned himself in Newgate, 12th of September, 1760, after a hunger strike. |
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| PATRICK M'CARTY Executed at the bottom of Bow Street, Covent Garden, Westminster, 24th of October, 1760, for murder. |
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| THEODORE GARDELLE An artist, who was executed in the Haymarket, 4th of April, 1761, for murdering a woman. |
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| PETER PATTISON Executed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5th of October, 1761, for being concerned in a riot at Hexham |
316 |
| JOHN PERROTT A bankrupt, who refused to make full disclosures of his effects, and was executed in Smithfield, 11th of November, 1761 |
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| ROBERT GREENSTREET Executed at Tyburn, 14th of December, 1761, for the murder of his master, from whom he demanded an increase of wages. |
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| JOHN MCNAUGHTON, ESQ. Who was twice executed in Ireland, 15th of December, 1761, for the murder of Miss Knox, whom he pretended to marry. |
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| INDEX | 334 |
| Execution of Earl Ferrers | Frontispiece |
| Pirate hanged at Execution Dock | 56 |
| Execution of Sarah Malcolm | 72 |
| Richard Turpin shooting a man | 88 |
| William Page robs a gentleman near Putney | 262 |
| Eugene Aram | 272 |
| The Jail Fever | 331 |