The Newgate Calendar: Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious Characters who Have Been Convicted of Outrages on the Laws of England Since the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century; with Occasional Anecdotes and Observations, Speeches, Confessions, and Last Exclamations of Sufferers, المجلد 4J. Robins and Company, 1828 |
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... March , 1811 . He was indicted for wilfully and maliciously injuring and destroying the apparel of Aune Parker , which she was wearing , by feloniously throwing upon the same a certain poisonous substance , called aqua- fortis , whereby ...
... March , 1811 . He was indicted for wilfully and maliciously injuring and destroying the apparel of Aune Parker , which she was wearing , by feloniously throwing upon the same a certain poisonous substance , called aqua- fortis , whereby ...
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... March he wanted to go into the cooking - room ; but was prevented by Ebenezer Alexander , a private marine , who was on duty there , and whose orders were to that effect . The sentinel desired him to get leave from the sergeant , which ...
... March he wanted to go into the cooking - room ; but was prevented by Ebenezer Alexander , a private marine , who was on duty there , and whose orders were to that effect . The sentinel desired him to get leave from the sergeant , which ...
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... March , 1811 , he was executed at the new drop before Gloucester gaol , and had been suspended about twenty minutes when a reprieve arrived ! Is the life of man of so little value , that those intrusted with important power will not ...
... March , 1811 , he was executed at the new drop before Gloucester gaol , and had been suspended about twenty minutes when a reprieve arrived ! Is the life of man of so little value , that those intrusted with important power will not ...
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... March , 1811 ; when , in addition to the above facts , it was proved that , in the event of the Langmans ' death , he would come in for their property , in right of his wife , as the next heiress of her brothers . The trial lasted till ...
... March , 1811 ; when , in addition to the above facts , it was proved that , in the event of the Langmans ' death , he would come in for their property , in right of his wife , as the next heiress of her brothers . The trial lasted till ...
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... MARCH . JOHN TUCKER , TRANSPORTED FOR OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES . THIS impostor's career in vil- hiny , though short , was notorious ; pr few swindlers ever contrived to arrest so much of public atten- tion , with so little ...
... MARCH . JOHN TUCKER , TRANSPORTED FOR OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES . THIS impostor's career in vil- hiny , though short , was notorious ; pr few swindlers ever contrived to arrest so much of public atten- tion , with so little ...
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afterwards appeared apprehended Arthur Thistlewood asked assizes attended Bank Bank of England bill blood body Bow Street brother brought called character charge child circumstances committed conduct consequence convicted Court crime custody death declared door dreadful dumplings escape evidence execution fate father forgery found Guilty friends gaol gave gentleman girl Haggart hands Hayward heard honour Hunt husband indicted innocent James James Leary JOHN BELLINGHAM John Thurtell judge jury justice knew lived lodgings London Lord Lord Sidmouth Mackcoull magistrate ment mercy morning murder ness Newgate night o'clock offence officers Old Bailey passed person pistol poor prisoner Probert proceeded prosecution proved public house punishment racter received returned robbed robbery sent sentence shillings soner soon stairs Stent Street suffered taken tence Thistlewood Thomas tion told took trial unfortunate verdict villain Watson wife William William Holden witness woman wretched young
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الصفحة 316 - God willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he. should turn from his wickedness and live.
الصفحة 25 - Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
الصفحة 223 - Hear this, ye justices, that I have this day neither eat, drank, nor have upon me, neither bone, stone, ne grass, nor any enchantment, sorcery, or witchcraft, whereby the law of God may be abased or the law of the devil exalted. So help me God and his saints.
الصفحة 223 - Hear this, O man, whom I hold by the hand, who callest thyself Thomas by the name of baptism, that thou art perjured ; and therefore perjured, because that thou feloniously didst murder my *father, William by name. So help me God and the saints ; and this I will prove against thee by my body, as this court shall award (c).
الصفحة 261 - William Jones, be taken hence to the place from whence you came, and be thence drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and that...
الصفحة 253 - ... will, perhaps, imagine that personal motives instigated me to the deed, but I disclaim them. My every principle was for the prosperity of my country ; my every feeling, the height of my ambition, was the securing the welfare of my starving brother Englishmen.
الصفحة 396 - ... be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul ! Yesterday a most excellent sermon was preached by the Rev.
الصفحة 384 - Street belonged solely to my mother, with the exception of a library and single bedroom. This was the extent of my expenditure, so far as domestic expenditure is concerned. I am next accused of being an habitual gambler, an accusation which, if true, might easily account for the diffusion of the property. I am, indeed, a member of two clubs, the Albion and the Stratford, but never in my life did I play in either, at cards or dice, or any game of chance ; this is well known to the gentlemen of these...
الصفحة 352 - would be in it," — meaning what they (Hunt and John Thurtell) were about. Thurtell drove off from Tetsall's between four and five o'clock to take up a friend, as he said to Probert, " to be killed as he travelled with him :" an expression which Probert said at the time he believed to have been a piece of idle bravado. He requested Probert to bring down Hunt in his own gig. In the course of that evening the prisoner Thurtell was seen in a gig, with a horse of an iron-grey colour, with a white face...
الصفحة 254 - ... he called upon his landlord again, but mark the change in his appearance— dressed like a lord, in all the folly of the reigning fashion. He now described himself as the right heir to a German baron, who had been some time dead ; that lords Castlereagh and Sidmouth had acknowledged his claims to the title and property, had interfered in his behalf with the German government, and supplied him with money to support his rank in society. From this period I date his career as a government spy. 'He...