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The Chronicles of Crime; vol. I

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Author
Pelham, Camden
Title
The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2 being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841.
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Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)
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English
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HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
Subject
Newgate (Prison : London, England)
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46585
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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46585
Release Date
August 14, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.CHRONICLES OF CRIME — THE CHRONICLES OF CRIME; OR, The New Newgate Calendar. BEING A SERIES OF MEMOIRS AND ANECDOTES OF NOTORIOUS CHARACTERS WHO HAVE OUTRAGED THE LAWS OF GREAT BRITAIN FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO 1841.
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS. — T H E C H R O N I C L E S O F C R I M E, OR, THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR.
  4. 4.THE REV. THOMAS HUNTER. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS PUPILS.
  5. 5.ALEXANDER BALFOUR. CONVICTED OF MURDER.
  6. 6.CAPTAIN JOHN KIDD, SURNAMED THE WIZARD OF THE SEAS, AND DARBY MULLINS. HANGED FOR PIRACY.
  7. 7.GEORGE CADDELL. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF MISS PRICE, WHOM HE HAD SEDUCED.
  8. 8.THOMAS COOK. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  9. 9.JOHN PETER DRAMATTI. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE.
  10. 10.WILLIAM ELBY. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  11. 11.JOHN SMITH. CONVICTED OF ROBBERY.
  12. 12.WILLIAM GREGG. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  13. 13.RICHARD THORNHILL, ESQ., CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER, IN KILLING SIR C. DEERING IN A DUEL.
  14. 14.COLONEL JOHN HAMILTON. CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER AS SECOND IN A DUEL.
  15. 15.WILLIAM LOWTHER AND RICHARD KEELE. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF EDWARD PERRY, A TURNKEY OF CLERKENWELL BRIDEWELL.
  16. 16.WILLIAM JOHNSON AND JANE HOUSDEN. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF SPURLING, A TURNKEY IN THE OLD BAILEY.
  17. 17.THE EARL OF DERWENTWATER, LORD KENMURE, THE EARL OF WINTON, AND OTHERS, EXECUTED FOR TREASON.
  18. 18.JAMES SHEPPARD. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  19. 19.THE MARQUIS DE PALEOTTI, EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS SERVANT.
  20. 20.JOHN PRICE. COMMONLY CALLED JACK KETCH, EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  21. 21.BARBARA SPENCER. STRANGLED, AND THEN BURNED, FOR COINING.
  22. 22.WILLIAM SPIGGOT, AND THOMAS PHILLIPS. EXECUTED FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
  23. 23.NATHANIEL HAWES. TORTURED AND AFTERWARDS EXECUTED FOR ROBBERY.
  24. 24.CAPTAIN JOHN MASSEY. EXECUTED FOR PIRACY.
  25. 25.ARUNDEL COOKE, ESQ. AND JOHN WOODBURNE. EXECUTED FOR CUTTING AND MAIMING.
  26. 26.CHRISTOPHER LAYER, ESQ. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  27. 27.PHILIP ROACH, EXECUTED FOR PIRACY AND MURDER.
  28. 28.JOSEPH BLAKE, alias BLUESKIN, EXECUTED FOR HOUSEBREAKING.
  29. 29.JOHN SHEPPARD. EXECUTED FOR HOUSE-BREAKING.
  30. 30.JONATHAN WILD. EXECUTED FOR FELONIOUSLY CONNIVING WITH THIEVES.
  31. 31.CATHERINE HAYES. BURNT ALIVE FOR THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND.
  32. 32.MARGARET DIXON. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  33. 33.JOHN GOW AND OTHERS. EXECUTED FOR PIRACY.
  34. 34.COLONEL FRANCIS CHARTERIS. CONVICTED OF RAPE.
  35. 35.SARAH MALCOLM. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  36. 36.CAPTAIN JOHN PORTEOUS. CONVICTED OF MURDER, AND MURDERED BY THE MOB.
  37. 37.JOHN RICHARDSON AND RICHARD COYLE. EXECUTED FOR PIRACY AND MURDER.
  38. 38.GEORGE PRICE. CONVICTED OF MURDER.
  39. 39.RICHARD TURPIN. EXECUTED FOR HORSE-STEALING.
  40. 40.MARY YOUNG. ALIAS JENNY DIVER. EXECUTED FOR A STREET ROBBERY.
  41. 41.CHARLES DREW. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS FATHER.
  42. 42.CAPTAIN SAMUEL GOODERE, MATTHEW MAHONY, AND CHARLES WHITE. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF SIR JOHN D. GOODERE, BART.
  43. 43.JOHN BODKIN, DOMINICK BODKIN, AND OTHERS. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  44. 44.JONATHAN BRADFORD. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  45. 45.THE EARL OF KILMARNOCK, AND LORD BALMERINO. BEHEADED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  46. 46.MATTHEW HENDERSON. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS MISTRESS, LADY DALRYMPLE.
  47. 47.CHARLES RATCLIFFE, ESQ. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  48. 48.LORD LOVAT. BEHEADED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  49. 49.FRANCIS TOWNLEY, JAMES DAWSON, AND OTHERS. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  50. 50.WILLIAM YORK, AGED TEN YEARS, CONVICTED OF MURDERING SUSAN MAHEW, AGED FIVE YEARS.
  51. 51.BENJAMIN TAPNER, JOHN COBBY, JOHN HAMMOND, RICHARD MILLS, RICHARD MILLS THE YOUNGER, AND OTHERS. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  52. 52.SAMUEL COUCHMAN AND JOHN MORGAN, Lieutenants of Marines ; THOMAS KNIGHT, Carpenter, and others . SHOT FOR MUTINY.
  53. 53.JOHN MILLS. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  54. 54.AMY HUTCHINSON. BURNT FOR THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND.
  55. 55.JOHN CARR. EXECUTED FOR FORGERY.
  56. 56.NORMAN ROSS. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  57. 57.THOMAS COLLEY. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  58. 58.FREDERICK CAULFIELD. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  59. 59.WILLIAM PARSONS, ESQ. EXECUTED FOR RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION.
  60. 60.WILLIAM CHANDLER. TRANSPORTED FOR PERJURY.
  61. 61.MARY BLANDY. EXECUTED FOR PARRICIDE.
  62. 62.JOHN M‘CANELLY AND LUKE MORGAN. EXECUTED FOR BURGLARY.
  63. 63.ELIZABETH JEFFRIES AND JOHN SWAN. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  64. 64.DOCTOR ARCHIBALD CAMERON. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  65. 65.CAPTAIN JOHN LANCEY. EXECUTED FOR BURNING HIS SHIP.
  66. 66.NICOL BROWN. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE.
  67. 67.EDWARD MORGAN. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  68. 68.The Rev. JOHN GRIERSON and the Rev. Mr. WILKINSON TRANSPORTED FOR UNLAWFULLY PERFORMING THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY.
  69. 69.WILLIAM PAGE. EXECUTED FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
  70. 70.EUGENE ARAM. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  71. 71.WILLIAM ANDREW HORNE, ESQ. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  72. 72.LAURENCE, EARL FERRERS. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  73. 73.THEODORE GARDELLE. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  74. 74.JOHN M‘NAUGHTON, ESQ. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  75. 75.JOHN SMITH AND ROBERT MAYNE. EXECUTED FOR A MUTINY ON BOARD THE KING GEORGE.
  76. 76.HANNAH DAGOE. EXECUTED FOR ROBBERY.
  77. 77.BARNEY CARROL AND WILLIAM KING. EXECUTED FOR CUTTING AND MAIMING.
  78. 78.PETER M‘KINLIE, GEORGE GIDLEY, ANDREW ZEKERMAN, AND RICHARD ST. QUINTIN. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  79. 79.FATHER SHEEBY, JAMES BUXTON, AND JAMES FARRELL, OTHERWISE CALLED BUCK FARRELL. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  80. 80.WILLIAM GUEST. EXECUTED FOR DIMINISHING THE COIN OF THE REALM.
  81. 81.ELIZABETH BROWNRIGG. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  82. 82.JOHN WILLIAMSON. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  83. 83.SARAH METYARD AND SARAH MORGAN METYARD. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDERS OF PARISH APPRENTICES.
  84. 84.FREDERIC, LORD BALTIMORE; ELIZABETH GRIFFENBURG; AND ANNE HARVEY. TRIED FOR THE COMMISSION OF A RAPE, THE FEMALES AS ACCESSORIES BEFORE THE FACT.
  85. 85.JOHN WILKES, ESQ. CONVICTED OF SEDITION AND BLASPHEMY.
  86. 86.MUNGO CAMPBELL. CONVICTED OF THE MURDER OF THE EARL OF EGLINTON.
  87. 87.JAMES ATTAWAY AND RICHARD BAILEY. EXECUTED FOR BURGLARY.
  88. 88.LEVI WEIL, ASHER WEIL, JACOB LAZARUS, AND SOLOMON PORTER. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF JOHN SLOW.
  89. 89.JAMES BOLLAND. EXECUTED FOR FORGERY.
  90. 90.WILLIAM GRIFFITHS. EXECUTED FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
  91. 91.JOHN LEONARD. EXECUTED FOR A RAPE.
  92. 92.SAMUEL MALE. EXECUTED FOR ROBBERY.
  93. 93.WILLIAM FARMERY. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS MOTHER.
  94. 94.AMOS MERRITT. EXECUTED FOR BURGLARY.
  95. 95.JOHN RANN, alias SIXTEEN STRINGED JACK. EXECUTED FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
  96. 96.ROBERT AND DANIEL PERREAU. EXECUTED FOR FORGERY.
  97. 97.MARGARET CAROLINE RUDD. TRIED FOR FORGERY.
  98. 98.THE COUNTESS OF BRISTOL, OTHERWISE THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON. CONVICTED OF BIGAMY.
  99. 99.PETER LE MAITRE. CONVICTED OF ROBBING THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM AT OXFORD.
  100. 100.DAVID BROWN DIGNUM. CONVICTED OF PRETENDING TO SELL PLACES UNDER GOVERNMENT.
  101. 101.JAMES HILL, alias HIND, alias ATKINS, alias JOHN THE PAINTER. EXECUTED FOR FIRING PORTSMOUTH DOCK-YARD.
  102. 102.FRANCIS MERCIER, alias LOUIS DE BUTTE. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  103. 103.JOHN HOLMES AND PETER WILLIAMS. WHIPPED FOR STEALING DEAD BODIES.
  104. 104.DR. WILLIAM DODD. EXECUTED FOR FORGERY.
  105. 105.THOMAS HORNER AND JAMES FRYER, EXECUTED FOR BURGLARY.
  106. 106.THE REV. JAMES HACKMAN. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  107. 107.JAMES DONALLY. EXECUTED FOR ROBBERY.
  108. 108.MORGAN PHILLIPS. EXECUTED FOR MURDER AND ARSON.
  109. 109.JAMES MATHISON. EXECUTED FOR FORGERY.
  110. 110.THE RIOTS OF LONDON. BEGINNING ON THE 2ND JUNE, 1780, WITH THE EXECUTION OF THE RIOTERS.
  111. 111.ABRAHAM DURNFORD AND WILLIAM NEWTON. EXECUTED FOR ROBBERY.
  112. 112.FRANCIS HENRY DE LA MOTTE. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  113. 113.JOHN DONELLAN, ESQ. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF SIR THEODOSIUS BOUGHTON, BART., HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW.
  114. 114.DAVID TYRIE. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  115. 115.WILLIAM WYNNE RYLAND. EXECUTED FOR FORGERY.
  116. 116.CHRISTOPHER TRUSTY, AND OTHERS. EXECUTED FOR RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION.
  117. 117.SAMUEL HARRIS AND JOHN NORTH. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  118. 118.CHARLES PRICE. CHARGED WITH FORGERY.
  119. 119.HENRY STERNE, alias GENTLEMAN HARRY. CONVICTED OF STEALING THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT’S “GEORGE.”
  120. 120.SAMUEL BURT. CONVICTED OF FORGERY.
  121. 121.THOMAS GORDON, THE YOUNGER. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  122. 122.THOMAS PHIPPS, ESQ. THE ELDER, AND THOMAS PHIPPS, THE YOUNGER. EXECUTED FOR FORGERY.
  123. 123.RENWICK WILLIAMS, COMMONLY CALLED “THE MONSTER.” IMPRISONED FOR A BRUTAL AND WANTON ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.
  124. 124.EDWARD LOWE AND WILLIAM JOBBINS. EXECUTED FOR ARSON.
  125. 125.JOSEPH WOOD AND THOMAS UNDERWOOD, EXECUTED FOR ROBBERY.
  126. 126.WILLIAM GADESBY, EXECUTED FOR ROBBERY.
  127. 127.THE BIRMINGHAM RIOTS.
  128. 128.THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY.
  129. 129.NATHANIEL LILLEY, JAMES MARTIN, MARY BRIANT, WILLIAM ALLEN, AND JOHN BUTCHER. CONVICTED OF RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION.
  130. 130.THE REV. RICHARD BURGH, JOHN CUMMINGS, THOMAS TOWNLEY M‘CAN, ESQRS., JAMES DAVIS, AND JOHN BOURNE. CONVICTED OF A CONSPIRACY TO BURN THE KING’S BENCH PRISON.
  131. 131.LAURENCE JONES, INDICTED FOR ROBBERY.
  132. 132.ROBERT WATT AND DAVID DOWNIE. CONVICTED OF HIGH TREASON.
  133. 133.ARCHIBALD HAMILTON ROWAN, ESQ. CONVICTED OF PUBLISHING A SEDITIOUS LIBEL.
  134. 134.WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH AND FRANCIS JENNISON. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  135. 135.ANNE BROADRIC. INDICTED FOR MURDER.
  136. 136.THE REV. MR. JACKSON. CONVICTED OF TREASON.
  137. 137.LEWIS JEREMIAH AVERSHAW. EXECUTED FOR MURDER, IN SHOOTING A PEACE-OFFICER.
  138. 138.WILLIAM TILLEY, JOHN CROSSWELL, GEORGE HARDWICK, JAMES HAYDEN, JOHN HAWDEN, SIMON JACOBS, JOHN SOLOMONS, JOHN PHILLIPS, AND JOHN HENLEY. CONVICTED OF A CONSPIRACY.
  139. 139.CHARLES SCOLDWELL. CONVICTED OF STEALING.
  140. 140.JOSEPH HODGES AND RICHARD PROBIN. CONVICTED OF CROSS DROPPING.
  141. 141.THE MUTINY AT THE NORE. RICHARD PARKER. EXECUTED FOR MUTINY.
  142. 142.MARIA THERESA PHIPOE, alias MARY BENSON EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  143. 143.JAMES O’COIGLEY, alias FAVEY. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  144. 144.GEORGE WALDRON, alias BARRINGTON. TRANSPORTED FOR PICKING POCKETS.
  145. 145.JAMES HADFIELD. TRIED FOR HIGH TREASON, IN SHOOTING AT THE KING.
  146. 146.RICHARD FERGUSON, alias GALLOPING DICK. HANGED FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
  147. 147.JOSEPH WALL, ESQ. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  148. 148.JOHN TERRY AND JOSEPH HEALD. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  149. 149.ROBERT SMITH. EXECUTED FOR ROBBERY.
  150. 150.GEORGE FOSTER. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE AND CHILD.
  151. 151.ROBERT EMMET. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  152. 152.COLONEL EDWARD MARCUS DESPARD, JOHN FRANCIS, JOHN WOOD, AND OTHERS. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
  153. 153.JOHN HATFIELD. EXECUTED FOR FORGERY.
  154. 154.FRANCIS SMITH. CONDEMNED FOR THE MURDER OF A SUPPOSED GHOST.
  155. 155.ROBERT ASLETT, CONDEMNED TO DEATH FOR EMBEZZLING PUBLIC PROPERTY.
  156. 156.SAMUEL WILD MITCHELL. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  157. 157.RICHARD HAYWOOD. EXECUTED FOR ROBBERY.
  158. 158.HENRY PERFECT. TRANSPORTED FOR FRAUD.
  159. 159.THOMAS PICTON, ESQ. INDICTED FOR APPLYING THE TORTURE TO LOUISA CALDERON, TO EXTORT A CONFESSION.
  160. 160.RICHARD PATCH. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF MR. BLIGHT.
  161. 161.WILLIAM DUNCAN, CONVICTED OF THE MURDER OF HIS MASTER.
  162. 162.JOHN HOLLOWAY AND OWEN HAGGERTY, EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  163. 163.GEORGE ALLEN. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS THREE CHILDREN.
  164. 164.MARTHA ALDEN. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND.
  165. 165.JOHN PALMER. EXECUTED FOR BURGLARY.
  166. 166.THOMAS SIMMONS. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  167. 167.ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, ESQ. EXECUTED FOR A MURDER COMMITTED IN A DUEL.
  168. 168.JOHN RYAN AND MATTHEW KEARINGE. EXECUTED FOR ARSON AND MURDER.
  169. 169.JAMES COOPER. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  170. 170.JOSEPH BROWN. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  171. 171.MARY BATEMAN, Commonly called the Yorkshire Witch. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  172. 172.JAMES HARDY VAUX, TRANSPORTED FOR PRIVATELY STEALING.
  173. 173.JOHN WHITMORE, alias OLD DASH. EXECUTED FOR A RAPE.
  174. 174.AGNES ADAMS. IMPRISONED FOR UTTERING A FORGED NOTE.
  175. 175.RICHARD ARMITAGE AND CHARLES THOMAS. EXECUTED FOR FORGERY.
  176. 176.JANE COX. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  177. 177.MICHAEL WHITING. EXECUTED FOR POISONING HIS BROTHERS-IN-LAW.
  178. 178.HARRIET MAGNIS. TRIED FOR CHILD STEALING.
  179. 179.BENJAMIN WALSH, ESQ., M.P. TRIED FOR FELONY.
  180. 180.THE MURDER OF THE MARRS AND WILLIAMSONS.
  181. 181.WILLIAM HEBBERFIELD. EXECUTED FOR FORGERY.
  182. 182.JOHN CLAYTON AND WILLIAM JENKINS. EXECUTED FOR BURGLARY.
  183. 183.DANIEL DAWSON. EXECUTED FOR POISONING RACE-HORSES.
  184. 184.THE MARQUIS OF SLIGO. FINED AND IMPRISONED FOR ENTICING SEAMEN TO DESERT HIS MAJESTY’S NAVY.
  185. 185.JOHN BELLINGHAM. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SPENCER PERCEVAL.
  186. 186.THE LUDDITES.
  187. 187.HUFFEY WHITE AND RICHARD KENDALL. EXECUTED FOR ROBBING THE LEEDS MAIL.
  188. 188.PHILIP NICHOLSON EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  189. 189.MICHAEL M‘ILVENA. EXECUTED FOR UNLAWFULLY PERFORMING THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY.
  190. 190.JAMES MITCHELL. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
  191. 191.MAJOR J. G. SEMPLE, alias LISLE. CONVICTED OF SWINDLING.
  192. 192.WILLIAM SAWYER. EXECUTED FOR A MURDER IN PORTUGAL.
  193. 193.ELIZABETH FENNING. EXECUTED FOR ATTEMPTING TO POISON A FAMILY.
  194. 194.JOSEPH BLACKBURN. EXECUTED FOR FORGERY.
  195. 195.JEREMIAH GRANT EXECUTED FOR BURGLARY.
  196. 196.THOMAS CARSON. CONVICTED OF MURDER.

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