The Complete Newgate Calendar
Volume Five
| WILLIAM DUNCAN
Convicted for the murder of his master, William Chivers, Esq., and transported for life, March, 1807. |
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| GEORGE ALLEN
An epileptic, who was executed at Stafford, 30th of March, 1807, for the murder of his three children. |
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| MARTHA ALDEN
Executed, 31st Of July, 1807, for murdering her husband in a cottage near Attleborough, Norfolk. |
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| ROBERT POWELL
A starving fortune-teller, who was convicted by the Middlesex magistrates of being a rogue and vagabond, 1807. |
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| JOHN ALMOND
Convicted at the December Sessions, 1807, of forging a will, and executed before Newgate. |
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| RICHARD OWEN
Convicted of cross-dropping, and sentenced to transportation, at the Old Bailey, January Sessions, 1808. |
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| WILLIAM WALKER
A soldier in the Middlesex Militia. Sentenced to death for a highway robbery of sixpence and a penny-piece, but reprieved at the request of his victim, February, 1808. |
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| THOMAS SIMMONS
Executed at Hertford, 7th of March, 1808, for a double murder |
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| JOHN SHEPHERD
Convicted, at Lancaster, of a riot and setting fire to the prison, June, 1808. |
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| HECTOR CAMPBELL, ESQ.
Fined and imprisoned, in the year 1808, for acting as a physician without a licence. |
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| ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, ESQ.
Brevet-Major in the army, and a captain in the 21st Regiment of Foot. Executed 24th of August, 1808, at Armagh, in Ireland, for murdering a brother official, whom he killed in a duel. |
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| JAMES WOOD
Convicted at the Cumberland Summer Assizes, 1808, and executed for a double murder. |
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| JAMES INWOOD
Convicted of manslaughter in killing William Goodman, who had been detected in robbing a fishery, October, 1808. |
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| JOHN RYAN AND MATHEW
KEARINGE
Executed in Ireland, for arson and murder, 1808. |
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| THE REV.ABRAHAM
ASHWORTH
Sentenced in 1808 to three years' imprisonment in Lancaster Jail, for ill-treating his female pupils. |
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| JOHN NICHOLLS
A wholesale bank-note forger, convicted at the January Sessions at the Old Bailey, 1809, and executed before Newgate. |
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| MARGARET CRIMES ALIAS
BARRINGTON
Executed before Newgate, 22nd of February, 1809, for taking a false oath, and thereby obtaining letters of administration to the effects of a soldier. |
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| HENRY HUNT
A driver of the Norwich mail Convicted of stealing a gold watch sent by his coach, 8th of April, 1809. |
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| WILLIAM PROUDLOVE AND GEORGE
GLOVER
Executed at Chester, 28th of May, 1809, for salt-stealing, after a first attempt to hang them bad failed. |
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| CAPTAIN JOHN SUTHERLAND
Commander of the British armed transport, The Friends. Executed at Execution Dock, on the banks of the Thames, 29th of June, 1809, for the murder of his cabin-boy. |
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| HENRY WHITE AND JAMES
SMITH
Well-equipped and armed burglars, who were sentenced to death at the Old Bailey, 3rd of July, 1809. |
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| WILLIAM HEWITT
Fined five hundred pounds, and imprisoned, at the Old Bailey Sessions, in October, 1809, for enticing an English artificer to leave his country and emigrate to the United States of North America. |
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| EDWARD EDWARDS
A young but artful thief, transported for stealing privately from a shop in London, October, 1809. |
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| JAMES MARLBOROUGH, AND SARAH,
HIS WIFE
Imprisoned for gross cruelty to their child, 8th of December, 1809. |
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| GEORGE WEBB
Son of a clergyman, and a notorious burglar. Executed on Shooter's Hill, near London, 1809. |
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| RICHARD TURNER
A young but artful swindler, transported to Botany Bay for fourteen years for cheating a young lady. |
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| JOHN LUMLEY
Imprisoned, and whipped through the streets of the borough of Southwark, for stealing pewter pint-pots from public-houses, January, 1810. |
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| THOMAS PUGH AND ELIZABETH
PUGH
Convicted at the London Sessions, 20th of January, 1810, and sentenced to imprisonment for a conspiracy, in what is called " child-dropping." |
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| HENRY CLARKE
Convicted at the Old Bailey, the 20th of February, 1810, for robbing a mail-coach, and sentenced to death. |
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| WILLIAM COLMAN
A convict on board the hulks, at Woolwich. Executed on Pennington Heath, 26th of March, 1810, for the murder of a fellow-prisoner. |
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| WILLIAM COOPER AND WILLIAM
DRAPER
Convicted of cutting off trunks from a gentleman's carriage ; the former was transported for seven years, and the latter imprisoned for six months in the house of correction, 1810. |
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| RICHARD FAULKNER
A boy, executed at Wisbech, in 1810, for the murder of another lad of twelve years of age. |
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| RICHARD VALENTINE THOMAS
Executed at the New Prison, in Horsemonger Lane, 3rd of September, 1810, for forgery. |
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| HENRY GRIFFIN
Indicted at the Old Bailey, at the September Sessions, 1810, for the murder of his wife, found guilty of manslaughter, and fined. |
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| WILLIAM HITCHIN
Transported for seven years for stealing an Exchequer bill, September, 1810. |
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| THOMAS BELLAMY AND JOHN
LANEY
Watchmen, convicted of assaulting those whom they were bound to protect, September, 1810. |
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| JOHN DAVISON, ESQ.
A captain in the Royal Marines, convicted of stealing a piece of muslin from a shopkeeper at Taunton, 13th of November, 1810. |
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| MARY JONES AND ELIZABETH
PAINE
Transported for seven years, November Sessions, 1810, at the Old Bailey, for shoplifting. |
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| THOMAS KIMPTON
Convicted at the Middlesex Sessions, December, 1810, of a violent assault on a juryman of the court leet, and sentenced to imprisonment. |
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| WILLIAM BRITTON
Convicted at the Sessions at the Old Bailey, December, 1810, of stealing from a coffee-house bedroom, and sentenced to transportation. |
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| RICHARD CORDUY
Imprisoned two years in Chelmsford Jail for robbing the royal forest at Waltham of six pieces of wood. |
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| PRIVATE HALES
Pitiful scene in an attempt to hang him at Jersey. |
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| MARTHA DAVIS
Sentenced to death for robbing a foot-boy while on an errand for his master. |
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| JOHN PIERCE, VINCENT
PIERCE AND ELIZABETH LUKER
Sentenced to imprisonment for a riot at Sadler's Wells Theatre which occasioned the death of eighteen of the audience. |
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| JOHN ROBINSON
Executed at York, for a most cruel and deliberate murder of a servant-girl. |
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| LEVI MORTGEN AND JOSEPH
LUPPA
Two swindling Jews, transported for seven years for a conspiracy to defraud. |
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| ELIZABETH MIDDLETON
Imprisoned for fourteen days for shocking cruelty to her orphan apprentice. |
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| JOHN MUCKETT
A soldier, who was executed at Chelmsford for the murder of his wife, with whom he quarrelled because he had no potatoes for dinner. |
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| JAMES BULLOCK
Executed, under the Bankruptcy Act, for a felonious embezzlement. |
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| PATRICK M'DONALD
A poor boy, convicted at the Old Bailey of stealing, and presented with a deluge of shillings. |
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| FREDERICK SMITH ALIAS
HENRY ST JOHN
Convicted at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to transportation for a curious kind of fraud. |
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| SAMUEL OLIVER
A shop-boy, transported for seven years for committing a petty theft. |
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| THOMAS WHITE AND WALTER
WYATT
Two thieves, who were the first criminals to be executed at Oxford. |
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| JOSEPH MOSES
Convicted in 1811 of receiving the skins of royal swans from the Serpentine river, in Hyde Park, knowing them to have been stolen. |
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| EDWARD BEAZLEY
A boy, whipped in Newgate for destroying women's apparel with aqua fortis, 11th of March, 1811. |
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| WILLIAM TOWNLEY
Convicted of burglary, and executed at Gloucester, 23rd of March, 1811, a few minutes before a reprieve arrived. |
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| MICHAEL WHITING
A Methodist preacher, sentenced to death for poisoning his two brothers-in-law, with an intent to possess himself of their property, 1811. |
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| RICHARD ARMITAGE AND C. THOMAS
Clerks in the Bank of England, executed before Newgate, 24th of June, 1811, for forgery. |
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| MARY GREEN
Convicted of putting off base coin, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, 5th of April, 1811. |
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| THOMAS LEACH AND ELIZABETH,
HIS WIFE
The former transported for uttering forged bank-notes, and the latter condemned to death, July, 1811. |
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| JOHN STANLEY, THOMAS
JEFFRY, W. BRAINE AND
WILLIAM BRUNT London boot operatives who were imprisoned for conspiring to obtain better wages, August, 1811. |
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| JANE COX
Executed at Exeter Summer Assizes, 1811, for poisoning a child with arsenic. |
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| JAMES DALE
A chimney-sweep, who descended chimneys to break into houses, and was convicted on 9th of September, 1811. |
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| ARTHUR BAILEY
Executed at Ilchester, 11th of September, 1811, for stealing a letter from the Post Office at Bath. |
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| WILLIAM BEAVAN
A burglar, who was identified by his deformed hand, and was executed before Newgate, 19th of September, 1811. |
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| DANIEL DAVIS
A postal letter-carrier, convicted at the September Sessions, 1811, at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to death, for stealing a letter containing ten pounds. |
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| ELIZABETH KING
Sentenced to death at the Old Bailey, for privately stealing a bag of gold, 21st of September, 1811. |
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| AGNES ADAMS
Convicted at the Middlesex Sessions, 1811, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment for uttering a "Bank of Fleet" note. |
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| RICHARD PAYNE AND JOHN
MALONEY
Convicted, October Sessions, 1811, at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to death, for robbing a man whom they had accused of being an ex-convict. |
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| WILLIAM ROGERS
Overseer of carpenters, employed at the Lyceum Theatre, transported, October Sessions, 1811, for embezzling timber, and making false charges to his employer. |
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| TUCKER, THE MOCK PARSON
Convicted at the Middlesex Sessions, 2nd of November, 1811, for swindling a victualler of his wine, and transported for seven years. |
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| JOHN WILLIAMS
Who, after committing a series of horrible murders, in 1811, escaped the gallows by hanging himself in prison. |
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| COLONEL BROWNE
An American Loyalist, convicted in the Court of King's Bench at Westminster, 21 St of February, 1812, of forgery at common law, and sentenced to imprisonment in Newgate. |
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| BENJAMIN WALSH, ESQ.,
M.P.
Convicted in 1812 of feloniously stealing a large sum of money from Sir Thomas Plomer, his Majesty's Solicitor-General, and pardoned on a case reserved for the opinion of the twelve judges. |
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| GEORGE SKENE
Chief clerk of the Queen Square police office, Westminster. Executed before Newgate, 18th of March, 1812, for forgery. |
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| JOHN BELLINGHAM
Executed for the murder of the Right Honourable Spencer Perceval, Chancellor of the Exchequer, by shooting him in the House of Commons, in May, 1812. |
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| BENJAMIN RENSHAW
Executed, after an abortive attempt, at Nottingham, 29th of August, 1812, for setting fire to a haystack. |
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| DANIEL DAWSON
Convicted at Cambridge Summer Assizes, 1812, and executed for poisoning racehorses at Newmarket. |
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| JOHN DAVIES
Sentenced to six months' imprisonment for buying guineas at a higher price than their nominal value, September, 1812. |
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| CHARLES FOX
"The Flying Dustman," convicted at the Middlesex Sessions, September, 1812, for an assault, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. |
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| LIEUTENANT GAMAGE
Late of the Griffon sloop-of-war, hanged at the yardarm of that ship, in November, 1812, for the murder of a sergeant of marines. |
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| JOHN WALKER
Another tyrannical guardian of the peace of the night, whose case offers another peep into a London watch-house, imprisoned for assaulting a woman, November, 1812. |
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| THE MARQUIS OF SLIGO
Convicted of enticing British seamen to desert, fined five thousand pounds, and imprisoned four months in Newgate, 16th of December, 1812. |
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| WILLIAM CORNWELL
A murderer, who was traced by a watch he had sold, and was executed in 1813. |
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| ELIZA FENNING
A cook, who was convicted of placing arsenic in dumplings, and executed, 26th of June, 1815, after solemn protestations of innocence. |
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| GEORGE BARNETT
Charged with shooting at Miss Frances Maria Kelly, actress, in Drury Lane Theatre, 17th of February, 1816. |
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| ABRAHAM THORNTON
Acquitted on a charge of murdering a girl, and on being rearrested claimed trial by battle, April, 1818. |
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| CHARLES HUSSEY
Who murdered a wealthy tradesman and his housekeeper, and was executed on 3rd of August, 1818. |
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| ROBERT JOHNSTON
Executed for robbery, on 30th of December, 1818, after shocking scenes on the scaffiold. |
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| MRS MARY RIDDING
A captain's wife, who was sent to prison for stealing a child, 28th of August, 1819. |
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| SIR FRANCIS BURDETT
Fined two thousand pounds at the Leicester Assizes, 23rd of March, 1820, and sent to prison for three months for a seditious libel. |
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| ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD, DR
JAMES WATSON, JAMES
WATSON THE YOUNGER, THOMAS PRESTON, JOHN HOOPER AND OTHERS Leaders in the 1820 conspiracy to seize the Tower of London, the Bank of England and military barracks, and to murder Cabinet Ministers |
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| PHILIP STOFFEL AND CHARLES
KEPPEL
Guilty of murder disclosed by a prisoner's ignorance of spelling, 1823. |
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| HENRY FAUNTLEROY
A partner in a leading banking-house, who forged securities of the value of one hundred and seventy thousand pounds, and was executed at Newgate on 30th of November, 1824. |
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| GEORGE ALEXANDER WOOD
AND ALEXANDER WELLESLEY
LEITH Eton College boys, indicted for manslaughter, 9th of March, 1825, as the result of a two-hours' fierce fight |
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| EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD,
WILLIAM WAKEFIELD
AND FRANCES WAKEFIELD Romance of a wealthy heiress who was abducted, and married at Gretna Green. |
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| WILLIAM CORDER
Executed 11th of August, 1828, for the murder of Maria Marten, in the Red Barn, the crime being revealed to the victim's mother in three dreams. |
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| JOSEPH HUNTON
A wealthy Quaker, who committed a series of forgeries in the City of London, and was executed 8th of December, 1828. |
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| ESTHER HIBNER THE ELDER,
ESTHER HIBNER THE
YOUNGER, AND ANN ROBINSON Tried for the murder of a parish apprentice, who died as the result of inhuman ill-treatment, 10th of April, 1829. |
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| WILLIAM BANKS
Executed at Horsemonger Lane Jail, 11th of January, 1830, for an armed burglary. |
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| CAPTAIN WILLIAM MOIR
Executed on 2nd of August, 1830, for murdering a fisherman who had trespassed on his farm at Barking, Essex. |
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| JOHN ST JOHN
LONG
A quack doctor of Harley Street, who was convicted for the manslaughter of a woman patient. When he died a monument was erected to him by grateful patients. |
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| JOHN TAYLOR AND THOMAS
MARTIN
A body-snatcher's humorous story of his adventure, as told at the London Sessions, 21st of April, 1831. |
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| JOSEPH PLANT STEVENS
A trickster, who was transported for robbing a guileless farmer, 25th of May, 1831. |
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| JOHN AMY BIRD
BELL
A fourteen-year-old criminal, who murdered another boy for the sake of nine shillings, and was executed on 1st of August, 1831 |
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| JOHN BISHOP AND THOMAS
WILLIAMS
Notorious body-snatchers who murdered people and sold their bodies to hospitals, and were executed at Newgate, 5th of December, 1831. |
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| JOHN HOLLOWAY
Executed on 16th of December, 1831, for the murder of his wife, whose dismembered body was discovered amid rustic surroundings. |
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| HENRY MACNAMARA
Hotel jewel thief, who was transported for committing several robberies, 21st of May, 1832. |
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| DENNIS COLLINS
Convicted of high treason, in throwing a stone at William IV. at Ascot Races, 19th of June, 1832, |
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| JONATHAN SMITHERS
Executed 9th of July, 1832, for setting fire to his shop in Oxford Street, and causing the death of three people. |
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| JAMES COOK
Executed 10th of August, 1832, for the murder of Mr Paas, whose remains he attempted to destroy by fire. |
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| WILLIAM JOHNSON
Executed at Newgate, 7th of January, 1833, for murdering a wig maker's son, whose body was found in a ditch. |
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| JOB COX
Convicted in May, 1833, of stealing a letter, he narrowly escaped execution, owing to the city recorder's blunder. |
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| PATRICK CARROLL
Executed 18th of May, 1835, for murder. Origin of the Central Criminal Court. |
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| ROBERT SALMON
Convicted of manslaughter, in administering "Morison's Pills" and fined two hundred pounds, 4th of April, 1836. |
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| JOHN MINTER HART
A cheating money-lender, who was transported for life, 16th of December, 1836, for forging a bill of exchange. |
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| JAMES GREENACRE
Executed at Newgate, 2nd of May, 1837, for murdering and mutilating a woman. |
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| FRANCIS LIONEL ELIOT,
EDWARD DELVES BROUGHTON,
JOHN YOUNG AND HENRY WEBBER Indicted for a murder committed in a duel on Wimbledon Common on 22nd of August, 1838. |
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| FRANCIS HASTINGS MEDHURST
Convicted on 13th of April, 1839, of the manslaughter of a schoolfellow. |
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| WILLIAM JOHN MARCHANT
A young footman, who was hanged for murdering a housemaid in a magistrate's drawing-room. |
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| FRANCOIS BENJAMIN COURVOISIER
Executed, 6th of July, 1840, for murdering Lord William Russell while sleeping in his house in Norfolk Street, Park Lane. |
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| EDWARD OXFORD
Tried on 9th of July, 1840, for high treason, in shooting at Queen Victoria while riding along Constitution Hill with Prince Albert, and found insane. |
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| THE EARL OF CARDIGAN
Tried on 16th of February, 1841, at the bar of the House of Lords, for an assault committed in a duel. |
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| WILLIAM STEVENSON
Transported, 17th of March, 1841, for stealing a bag of gold from his employers. |
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| JAMES INGLETT
Convicted, at the age of ninety-four, of the manslaughter of a woman, by carelessly administering arsenic to her. |
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| Edward Oxford shooting at Queen Victoria
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| Captain Sutherland stabs his cabin-boy
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| Public exhibition of the body of Williams
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| Bellingham murders the Speaker of the House of Commons
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| Interior of Sessions House, Old Bailey
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| Trial by Battle
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