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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... that the two prisoners , Roberts and Harper , were not sup- posed to know each other ; and that the whole of the gates leading from attesting witness . It was also proved that bank - 12 KNAPP & BALDWIN's NEWGATE CALENDAR .
... that the two prisoners , Roberts and Harper , were not sup- posed to know each other ; and that the whole of the gates leading from attesting witness . It was also proved that bank - 12 KNAPP & BALDWIN's NEWGATE CALENDAR .
الصفحة 13
... witnesses bound over to give evidence against him was Mrs. Ro berts , the mistress of his base ac- cuser . His forgeries of dividend warrants were to the amount of two thousand four hundred pounds . On the 2d of May following , C. was ...
... witnesses bound over to give evidence against him was Mrs. Ro berts , the mistress of his base ac- cuser . His forgeries of dividend warrants were to the amount of two thousand four hundred pounds . On the 2d of May following , C. was ...
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... witness . It was also proved that bank - notes , with which the di- vidends were paid , were found in the prisoner's ... witnesses against him . The trials of these unfortunate men were unattended by any other circum- stance worthy ...
... witness . It was also proved that bank - notes , with which the di- vidends were paid , were found in the prisoner's ... witnesses against him . The trials of these unfortunate men were unattended by any other circum- stance worthy ...
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... witness of all the good , as well as the evil , of their manners - and was , in every re- spect , most naturally and properly inclined to vindicate them , where truth will permit ; yet his whole volumes , abounding in every species of ...
... witness of all the good , as well as the evil , of their manners - and was , in every re- spect , most naturally and properly inclined to vindicate them , where truth will permit ; yet his whole volumes , abounding in every species of ...
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... witness that he must either find the six shillings or be flogged ; that the witness had only three shillings , which she gave him , but that it did not appease Mr. Hodge : that Prosper was flogged for up- wards of an hour , receiving ...
... witness that he must either find the six shillings or be flogged ; that the witness had only three shillings , which she gave him , but that it did not appease Mr. Hodge : that Prosper was flogged for up- wards of an hour , receiving ...
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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...