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, Tom 4J. Robins and Company, 1828 |
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... called on for his defence , said he was going from the Borough to Ratcliff Highway on business ; and , having occasion to turn up a court near London Bridge , he found the pots standing there : he picked them up , and it was his ...
... called on for his defence , said he was going from the Borough to Ratcliff Highway on business ; and , having occasion to turn up a court near London Bridge , he found the pots standing there : he picked them up , and it was his ...
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... have fabricated or cant names for the different articles which they steal . The Fleet notes they called Flash Screens . ” EDWARD BEAZLEY , WHIPPED FOR DESTROYING WOMEN'S APPAREL . UNTIL KNAPP & BALDWIN's NEWGATE CALENDAR . 9.
... have fabricated or cant names for the different articles which they steal . The Fleet notes they called Flash Screens . ” EDWARD BEAZLEY , WHIPPED FOR DESTROYING WOMEN'S APPAREL . UNTIL KNAPP & BALDWIN's NEWGATE CALENDAR . 9.
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... called aqua- fortis , whereby the same was so in- jured as to be rendered useless and of no value . He was also charged upon two other indictments for the like of fence , on the prosecution of two other women . It appeared that the ...
... called aqua- fortis , whereby the same was so in- jured as to be rendered useless and of no value . He was also charged upon two other indictments for the like of fence , on the prosecution of two other women . It appeared that the ...
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... called the very heart of the United. taken of murder , long after the per- petration . In Great Britain , the Governor of Goree , in Africa , for ordering a soldier to be illegally whipped , which occasioned his death , was tried and ...
... called the very heart of the United. taken of murder , long after the per- petration . In Great Britain , the Governor of Goree , in Africa , for ordering a soldier to be illegally whipped , which occasioned his death , was tried and ...
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... called the tomb of the poor negro's liberty ; for it is the vicious and thoughtless_con- sumers of poisonous rum and un- wholesome tobacco which enable their task - master to keep them in degradation . Little does the affected beau ...
... called the tomb of the poor negro's liberty ; for it is the vicious and thoughtless_con- sumers of poisonous rum and un- wholesome tobacco which enable their task - master to keep them in degradation . Little does the affected beau ...
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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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Strona 316 - God willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he. should turn from his wickedness and live.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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).
Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 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...