Latest / Non-Fiction Library / 18th Century Criminals - William Jackson

Transcript

18th Century Criminals - William Jackson · Non-Fiction Library

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: The selections on this recording of William Jackson's The New
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: and Complete Newgate Calendar are read and chosen by Roy
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Schreiber introduction. The wisest men, both in ancient and modern times,
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: have agreed that nothing leaves so strong an impression on
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: the human mind as a recital of those crimes for
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: which many have forfeited their lives to the injured laws
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: of their country. Such examples are set up as marks
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: of the frailty of human nature, and may serve to
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: teach us that, let our station be whatever it will,
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: we are not beyond the reach of temptation, and unless
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: we keep the fear of God constantly before us, attending
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: to our duty, as the allurement's device, will become so
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: strong that we may be led gradually to commit the
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: most odious crimes and end our lives with shame and infamy.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: The many atrocious offenses which are daily perpetrated in different
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: parts of the Kingdom in defiance of the laws, call
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: for a publication of this kind to put private persons
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: on their guard against the designing sheet and the more
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: open and daring robber. In former times, one notorious act
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: of shocking delinquency was sufficient to furnish matter of wonder
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: to the public for a long time. But of late
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: years vice has made such a bold and daring strides
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: that one act of enormity is swallowed up in another,
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: and ere we cease our surprise at the first it
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: is re excited by some newer and more atrocious villainy.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: New laws, new regulations, new modes of punishment have been devised,
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: but almost in vain, something seems wanting, which may tend
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: rather to prevent the offense than punish the offenders. At present,
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: nothing promises so fair to operate as a preventative remedy
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: against felonious acts as the frequent and careful perusal of
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: the modes by which similar acts of felony have been perpetrated,
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: and the horrid effects that have followed such perpetrations. The
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: dissipation of this nation has multiplied the number of crimes
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: and occasion new statutes to be framed for putting a
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: stop to the growing evil. Because such striking incidents have
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: happened in the course of the present century as were
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: not known nor even thought of, for many years before.
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: The multitude of places set apart for the entertainment of
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: the gay and the thoughtless has contributed towards the ruin
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: of many youth of both sexes. For pleasure is of
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: so bewitching a nature that in order to gratify a
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: sensual passion we are often led to commit the greatest crimes.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: Hence the ruin of many youth, who, had it not
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: been for the alluring temptations to vice, might have lived
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: to the inexpressible joy of their relations, and been an
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: honor and an ornament to their country. But it is
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: not youth alone that are blameable, for many who have
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: lived to advanced years are either destitute of virtuous principles
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: or so little masters of their natural tempers, that they
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: are often hurried both into excesses and crimes, without reflecting
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: on the fatal consequences. To prevent our fellow subjects from
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: committing crimes, and to promote their interest and honor in
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: the world, this work is offered to the public on
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: a plan entirely new and more comprehensive than any ever
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: published on the same subject. For a great variety of authors,
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: both printed and in manuscript, have been selected. The lives
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: of the most notorious offenders that have suffered from the
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: year seventeen hundred to the present time. In all the
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: works of this nature that we have seen, the materials
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: are so jumbled together without order or method, that the
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: readers are disgusted rather than entertained or instructed. Instead, therefore,
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: of repeating the dull, formal repetitions used on trials, we
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: have thrown the whole into the form of a narrative, and,
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: at the end of each life deduced such practical inferences
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: as cannot fail to make a lasting impression on the
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: minds of our readers. Every difficult term is likewise explained
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: without interrupting the narrative. And as great pains have been
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: taken to make this work acceptible to the public, the
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: author doubts not, but he shall receive the warmest approbation.
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: This entire new work is therefore offered not only as
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: an object of curiosity and entertainment, but as a publication
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: of real and substantial use to guard the mind. By
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: striking reflections on the conduct of those unhappy wretches who
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: have fallen sacrifice to the injured laws of their country,
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: from the allurements of vice and the paths that lead
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: to destruction. It is extremely natural to wish for the
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: approbation of the public. But however anxious we may be
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: for that, yet we desire it no further than the
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: merits of this performance shall entitle us conscious that nothing
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: has been neglected by the authors. They doubt not. But
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: those of discernment and sensibility will give it the preference
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: to all books of the same subject yet ever offered
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: to the public for whose benefit it has been undertaken,
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: And parents and guardians will find it one of the
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: most useful books to be put into the hands of
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: the rising generation before their tender minds have been led
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: astray from the practice of virtue. It will also become
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: extremely useful for families, and be a fund of entertainment
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: as well as instruction for those who have a few
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: leisure arrows to spend in the evening, or such as
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: go on long voyages to see. Those who live in
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: the country and at a distance from large towns will
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: find it very useful as a work of entertainment. And
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: although the greatest number of crimes are generally committed near
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: the metropolis, yet the reader will see we have given
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: the lives of the most notorious offenders throughout every part
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: of England, Wales and Scotland, with as many in Ireland
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: as we could procure authentic accounts of, so that this
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: work is calculated for the use and advantage of all
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: our fellow subjects. Introduction, signed by W. Jackson, Circumstantial account
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: of the trials, declarations and executions of Michael van Bergen,
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: Catharine van Bergen, and Gerard Dromulus of East Smithfield for
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: the murder of Oliver Norris. The wretched subjects of this
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: narrative were natives of Holland, but having settled in England.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: Michael van Bergen and his wife kept a public house
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: near East Smithfield, and Dromulus acted as their servant. One Norris,
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: a country gentleman who lodged at an inn near Aldgate,
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: went into the house of van Bergen about eight o'clock
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: in the evening and continued to drink there till about eleven.
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: Finding himself rather intoxicated, he desired the maid servant to
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: call a coach to carry him home. As she was
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: going to do so, her mistress whispered to her and
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: bid her return in a little time and say that
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: a coach was not to be procured. These directions being
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: observed Norris on the maid's return, resolved to go without
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: a coach, and accordingly he took his leave of the family.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: But he had not gone far before he discovered that
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: he had been robbed of a purse containing a sum
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: of money, whereupon he returned and charged Van Bergen and
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: his wife with having been guilty of the robbery. This
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: they positively denied and threatened to turn him out of
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: the house, but he refused to go and resolutely went
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: into a room where the cloth had been laid for supper.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: At this time Dromulus entered the room, and treating mister
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: Norris in a very cavalier manner, the latter resented the
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: insult till the perfect quarrel ensued. At this juncture, van
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: Bergen seized a poker with which he fractured mister Norris's skull,
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: and in the meantime Dromulus stabbed him in different parts
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: of his body. Missus van Burgen being present during the
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: perpetuation of this horrid act. When mister Norris was dead,
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: they stripped him of his coat, waistcoat, hat wig, and
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: et cetera, and then van Bergen and Dromulus carried the
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: body and threw it into a ditch which communicated with
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: the Thames. In the meantime, Missus van Bergen washed the
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: blood of the deceased from the floor of the room.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: The clothes which had been stripped from the deceased were
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: put up in a hamper and committed to the care
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: of Dr Emulus, who took a boat and carried them
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: over to Rotherith, where he employed the watermen to carry
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: the hamper to the lodgings which he had taken and
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: in which he proposed to remain until he could find
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: a favorable opportunity of embarking for Holland. The next morning,
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: at low water, the body of a gentleman was found,
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: and several of the neighbors went to take a view
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: of it and endeavored to try if they could trace
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: any blood to the place where the murder might have
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: been committed, but not succeeding in this. Some of them,
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: who were up very early in the morning, recollected that
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: they had seen van Bergen and Romulus coming almost from
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: the spot where the body was found, and remarked that
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: a light had been carried backwards and forwards in van
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Bergen's house. Upon this, the house was searched, but no
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: discovery was made, except that a little blood was found
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: behind the door or of a room which appeared to
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: have been lately mopped. Inquiry was made after Dromulus, but
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: van Bergen and his wife would give no other account
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: than that he had left their service, on which they
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: were taken into custody with the maid servant, who was
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: the principal evidence against them. At this juncture. The watermen
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: who had carried Dromulus to Rotherith, and who had known
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: him very well, appeared and was likewise taken into custody.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: On the trial, all the circumstances above mentioned appeared so
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: striking to the jury that they did not hesitate to
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: find the prisoners guilty, and accordingly they received sentence of death.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: The prisoners were tried by a jury of half Englishmen
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: and half foreigners, a generous and candid mode of proceeding
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: peculiar to the criminal courts of this country. Dromulus, after
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: condemnation and a short time before the day of execution,
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: assured the Ordinary of Newgate that the murder was committed
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: by himself, and was preceded and followed by these circumstances,
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: that mister Norris being very much in liquor and desirous
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: of going to his inn, mister van Bergen directed him
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: to attend him thither. That soon after they left the house,
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: Norris went into a broken building to ease himself, where,
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: using approbrious language to Dromulus, and attempting to draw his sword,
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: he wrested it from his hand and stabbed him with
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: it in several places. That being done, Noris groaned very much,
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: and Dromulus, hearing a watchman coming and fearing a discovery,
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: drew a knife and cut his throat, and thereby put
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: an end to his life. In answer to this, it
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: was said that the story was altogether improbable, for if
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: mister Norris had been killed in the manner above mentioned,
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: some blood would have been found on the spot, and
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: there would have been holes in his clothes from the stabbing,
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: neither of which was the case. Still, however, Dromulus persisted
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: in his declaration with a view to save the life
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: of his mistress, with whom he was thought to have
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: had a criminal connection, and indeed he confessed that he
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: had been too familiar with this woman. Mister and Missus
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: van Bergen were attended at the place of execution by
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: some divines of their own country, as well as English clergymen,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: and desired the prayers of all of them. Mister van Bergen,
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: unable to speak intelligibly in English, conversed in Latin, a
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: circumstance from which it may be inferred that he had
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: been educated in a style superior to the rank in
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: life which he had lately held. He said that the
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: murder was not committed in his house, and that he
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: knew no more of it than that Dromulus came to
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: him while he lay in bed, informed him that he
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: had wounded the gentleman and begged him to aid his escape,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: but that when he knew mister Norris was murdered, he
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: offered money to some persons to pursue the murderer. But
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: this circumstance, which might have been favorable to him, was
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: not proved on his trial. Missus van Bergen also solemnly
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: declared that she knew nothing of the murder till after
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: it was perpetrated, which was not in their house. That
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: Dromulus coming into the chamber and saying he had murdered
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: the gentleman. She went for the hamper to hold the
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: bloody clothes and assisted Dromulus in his escape, a circumstance
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: which would not be deemed criminal in her country. This was, however,
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: an artful plea for in Holland accessories before or after
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: the fact are accounted as principles. Dromulus, when at the
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: place of execution, persisted in his former tale, but desired
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: the prayers of the surrounding multitude, whom he warned to
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: beware of indulgence in violent passions, to which he then
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: fell an untimely sacrifice. These criminals were executed near Hartshorn
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: brew House, East Smithfield, being the nearest convenient spot to
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: the place where the murder was committed, on the tenth
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: of July in the year seventeen hundred. The men were
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: hung in chains between Bow and Mile End, but the
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: woman was buried. Full account of the life, intrigues and
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: crimes in et cetera of George Caudell, who is executed
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: at Stafford for the murder of Elizabeth Price his mistress.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: George Caudell was a native of the town of Bloomsgrove
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: in Worcestershire, at which place he was articled to an apothecary,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: with whom he served his time, and then repaired to London,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: where he walked to several of the hospitals to give
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: him an insight into the art of surgery. Having obtained
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: a tolerable proficiency therein, he retired from London and went
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: to Worcester, where he lived with mister Randal, a capital
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: surgeon of that city, and in this situation he was
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: equally admired for the depth of his abilities and the
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: amiableness of his temper. Here he married the daughter of
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: mister Randal, who died in labor of her first child.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: After this melancholy event, he went to reside at Lichfield
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: and continued upwards of two years with mister Dean, a
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: surgeon of that place. During his residence here he courted
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: the daughter of that gentleman, to whom he probably would
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: have soon been married, but for the commission of the
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: following crime that cost him his life. A young lady
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: named Elizabeth Price, who had been debauched by an officer
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: in the army, lived near mister Caudell's place of residence,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: and after her misfortune, supported herself by her skill in needlework. Cardell,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: becoming acquainted with her, a considerable degree of intimacy subsisted
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: between them, and Miss Price, degraded as she was by
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the unfortunate step she had taken, still thought herself an
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: equal match for one of mister Cardell's rank of life.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: This young lady now informed Cardell that a pregnancy was
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the consequence of their connection, and repeatedly urged him to
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: marry her to prevent her being a second time disgraced
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: in the eyes of the public. Mister Cardell resisted her
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: importunities for a considerable time. At last, Miss Price heard
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: of his paying his address to Miss Deane, on which
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: she became more importunate than ever, and threatened that if
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: he refused to consent to wed her, she would put
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: an end to all his projects with that young lady
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: by discovering everything that had passed between them. It was
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: on this unhappy occasion that Cardell formed the horrid resolution
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: of murdering Miss Price, for he could neither bear the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: thought of forfeiting the esteem of a woman he had courted,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: nor of marrying her who had granted the last favor
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: to at least one other man as well as himself.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: This dreadful scheme having entered his head, he called on
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Miss Price on a Saturday evening and requested that she
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: should walk in the fields with him on the afternoon
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: of the following day in order to adjust the plan
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: of their intended marriage. Miss Price, thus deluded, now thought
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the wound of her reputation would be healed, and on
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the following day she met him on the road leading
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: towards Burton upon Trent, at a house known by the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: sign of the Nag's Head. Having accompanied her supposed lover
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: into the fields and walked about till towards evening, they
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: then sat down under a hedge, where, having spent some
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: time in conversation, he pulled out a knife and cut
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: her throat and made his escape, but not before he
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: waited till she was dead. Cludell, however, in the distraction
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: of his mind, left behind him the knife with which
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: he had perpetrated the deed, together with his case of instruments.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: When he came home, it was observed that he appeared
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: exceedingly confused, though the reason of the perturbation of his
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: mind could not even be guessed at. On the following morning,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: miss Price, being found murdered in the field, great numbers
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: of people went to take a view of the body,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: among whom was the woman of the house where she lodged,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: who recollected that she had said she was going to
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: walk with mister Caudell, on which the instruments were examined
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and known to have belonged to him. Whereupon he was
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: taken into custody and committed to the jail at Stafford,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and soon afterwards tried. He was found guilty, condemned and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: executed at Stafford on the twenty first of July seventeen hundred.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Particulars of the life, atheism and remarkable execution of the
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Reverend Thomas Hunt in Edinburgh for the murder of his
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: two young pupils. This atrocious offender was born in the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: County of Fife and was the son of a rich
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: farmer who sent him to the University of Saint Andrew
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: for education. When young Hunter acquired a good share of
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: classical learning and began to prosecute his studies in divinity
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: with no small degree of success. Several of the younger
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: clergymen in Scotland act as tutors to wealthy and distinguish
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: families till the proper period arrives for their entering into orders,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: which they never do till they obtain a benefice. While
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: in this rank of life they bear the name of Chaplains.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: And in this station Hunter lived about two years in
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the house of mister Gordon, a very eminent merchant and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: one of the Baileys of Edinburgh, which is a rank
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: equal to that of Aldermen of London. Mister Gordon's family
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: consisted of himself, his lady, two sons, and a daughter,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: a young woman who attended missus Gordon and her daughter.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: The malefactor in question, some clerks and menial servants to
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the care of Hunter was committed the education of the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: two sons, and for a considerable time he discharged his
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: duty in a manner highly satisfactory to the parents, who
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: considered him as a youth of superior genius and great
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: goodness of heart. But it happened that a connection took
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: place between Hunter and the young woman above mentioned, which
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: soon increased to a criminal degree of familiarity. However, the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: correspondence between them maintained for a considerable time, during which
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the family was totally ignorant of their affair. These lovers
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: had gone under detected so long that they grew daily
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: less cautious than at the commencement of their amour, and
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: on a particular day, when mister and Missus Gordon were
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: on a visit, Hunter and his girl met in their
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: chamber as usual, but having been so incautious as not
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: to make their doll fast, the children went into the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: room and found them in such a situation as could
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: not admit any doubt of the nature of their intercourse.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: No suspicion was entertained that the children would mention to
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: their parents what had happened, the eldest boy being not
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: quite ten years of age, so that the guilty lovers
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: had not the least idea that a discovery would ensue.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: But when the children were at supper with their parents,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: they disclosed so much as left no room to doubt
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: of what had happened. Hereupon, the female servant was directed
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to quit the house on the following day, but Hunter
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: was continued in the family, after making a proper apology
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: for the crime of which he had been guilty, attributing
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it to the thoughtlessness of youth, and promising never to
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: offend in the same way again. Hunter, from this period
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: entertained the most inveterate hatred of all the children, on
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: whom he determined in his own mind to wreak the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: most diabolical vengeance. Nothing less than murder was in his intention,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: and it was a considerable time after he had formed
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: this hard plan before he had an opportunity of carrying
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: it into execution, which he at length in a great
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: degree affected, as will be seen hereafter. Whenever it was
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a fine day, he was accustomed to walk in the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: fields with his pupils for an hour before dinner, and
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: in these excursions the young Lady j generally attended her brothers.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: At the period immediately preceding the commission of the fatal fact,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: mister Gordon and his family were at their country retreat
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: near Edinburgh, and having received an invitation to dine in
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: that city, he and his lady proposed to go thither
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: about the time that Hunter usually took his noontide walk
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: with the children. Missus Hunter was very anxious for all
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the children to accompany them on this visit, but this
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: was strenuously opposed by her husband, who would consent that
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: only the little girl should attend them. By this circumstance,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Hunter's intention of murdering all three children was frustrated, but
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: he held his resolution of destroying the boys while they
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: were yet in his power. With this view, he took
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: them into the fields and sat down as if to
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: repose himself on the grass. This event took place soon
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: after the middle of the month of August, and Hunter
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: was preparing his knife to put a period to the
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: lives of the children at the very moment they were
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: busied in catching butterflies and gathering wild flowers. Having sharpened
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: his knife, he called the lads to him, and, having
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: reprimanded them for acquainting their father and mother of the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: scene to which they had been witnessed, he said that
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: he would immediately put them to death. Terrified by this threat,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the children ran from him, but he immediately followed and
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: brought them back. He then placed his knee on the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: body of the one, while he cut the throat of
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the other with his pen knife. Then treated the second
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: in the same inhuman manner that he had done the first.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: These horrid murders were committed within half a mile of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the Castle of Edinburgh, and as the deeds were perpetrated
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the day and in open fields,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: it would have been very wonderful, indeed, if the murderer
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: had not been immediately taken into custody. At the time
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: of the murder, it happened that a gentleman was walking
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: on Castle Hill of Edinburgh, who had a tolerably perfect
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: view of what passed. Alarmed by the incident, the gentleman
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: called some people, who ran with him to the place
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: where the children were lying dead. But by this time
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the murderer had advanced towards a river with a view
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: to drown himself. Those who pursued came up with him
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: just as he reached the brink of the river, and
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: his person being immediately known to them. A messenger was
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: instantly despatched to mister and Missus Gordon, who were at
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: that moment going to dinner with their friend, to inform
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: them of the horrid deed that had been perpetrated by
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: this wicked man. The language is too weak to describe
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the effects resulting from the communication of this dreadful news.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: The astonishment of the afflicted father, the agony of the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: mother's grief may possibly be conceived, though it cannot be painted.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Mister Hunter being now in custody, it is required that
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: we give an account of the proceedings against him, and
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: of the punishment that followed his offense. According to an
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: old Scottish law, it is decreed that quote, if a
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: murderer should be taken with the blood of the murdered
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: person on his clothes, he should be prosecuted in the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: sheriff's court and executed within three days after the commission
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: of the fact end quote. It was not common to
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: execute this sentence with rigor, but the offender in question
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: had been guilty of crimes of so aggravated a nature
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: that it was not thought proper to remit anything of
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the utmost severity of the law. The prisoner was therefore
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: committed to jail and chained down to the floor all night,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and on the following day the sheriff issued his precept
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: for the jury to meet, and in consequence of their verdict,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Hunter was brought to his trial. When he pleaded guilty
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: and added to the offense he had already committed the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: horrid crime of declaring that he lamented only not having
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: murdered mister Gordon's daughter as well as his son's. The
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: sheriff now passed sentence on the convict, which was to
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the following purpose that quote, on the following day he
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: should be executed on a gibbet erected for that purpose
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: on the spot where he had committed the murders, but
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: that previous to his execution his right hand should be
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: cut off with a hatchet near the wrist. Then he
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: should be drawn up to the gibbet by a rope,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and when he was dead, hung in chains between Edinburgh
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and lythe the knife with which he committed the murders
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: being stuck through his hand, which should be advanced over
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: his head and fixed therewith to the top of the gibbet.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Mister Hunter was executed in strict conformity to the above
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: sentence on the twenty second of August seventeen hundred, but
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: mister Gordon soon afterwards petitioned the sheriff that the body
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: might be removed to a more distant spot, as its
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: hanging on the side of the highway through which he
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: frequently passed tended to reincite his grief for the occasion
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: that had first given rise to it. This requisition was
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: immediately complied with, and in a few days the body
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: was removed to the skirts of a small village near
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Edinburgh called Broughton. It is equally true and horrid to
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: relate that at the place of execution. Hunter closed his
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: life with the following shocking declaration quote there is no God.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I do not believe there is any, or if there is,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I hold him in defiance. End quote the end of
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Part one Circumstantial account of the life, trial, piracies, and
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: execution of Captain John Kidd, who is hanged at Execution Dock.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: The case of Captain Kidd, while an agitation, engaged the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: attention of the public in a very eminent degree, though
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the man himself was one of the most contemptible of
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the human race. The town of Greenwick and Scotland gave
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: birth to Captain Kidd, who is bred to the sea,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and having quitted his native country, he resided at New York,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: where he became the owner of a small vessel with
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: which he traded among the pirates, obtained a thorough knowledge
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: of their haunts, and could give a better account of
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: them than any other person whatever. He was neither remarkable
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: for the excels of his courage, nor for the want
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: of it. In a word, his ruling passion appeared to
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: be avarice, and to this was owing his connection with
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the pirates. When Kidd was in company with these abandoned people.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: He used to converse and act as they did. Yet
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: at other times he would make singular professions of honesty
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: and intimate how easy a matter it would be to
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: extirpate these people and prevent their making future depredations. His
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: frequent remarks of this kind engaged the notice of several
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: considerable planters, who formed a more favorable idea of him
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: than his true character would warrant, and procured him the
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: patronage with which he was afterwards honored. Before we enter
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: into further particulars respecting this man, it would be proper
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: to say something of the situation of public affairs previous
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: to and at the time he began to grow conspicuous.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: For years past, great complaints had been made of the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: piracies committed in the West Indies, which had been greatly
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: encouraged by some of the inhabitants of North America on
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: account of the advantage that could be made by the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: purchase of effects thus fraudulently obtained. This coming to the
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: knowledge of King William the Third, he in the year
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: sixteen ninety five bestowed the government of New England and
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: New York on the Earl of Bellamont an Irish nobleman
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of distinguished character and abilities. As soon as His Majesty
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: had conferred this honor on Lord Belamont, his lordship began
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to consider of the most effectual method to redress the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: evils complained of, and he represented to Colonel Levingstone, a
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: gentleman who had great property in New York, that some
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: proper step should be taken to obviate the evils so
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: long complained of. Just at this juncture Captain Kidd was
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: arrived from New York in a sloop of his own. Him. Therefore,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the Colonel mentioned to Lord Bellamont as a bold and
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: daring man who was very fit to be employed against
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: the pirates, as he was perfectly well acquainted with the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: places which they resorted at. This plan met with the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: fullest approbation of his Lordship, who, knowing how desirous the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: King was that this nest of pirates should be destroyed,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: mentioned the affair to His Majesty, who greatly applauded the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: design and recommended it to the notice of the Board
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: of Admiralty. The Commissioner's lif wise approved it. But such
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: were then the hurry and confusion of public affairs that
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: though the design was approved, no steps were taken towards
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: carrying it into execution, the transactions on this head being
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: imparted to Colonel Levingstone. He made an application to Lord
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Bellamont and informed him that, as the affair would not
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: will well admit of delay, it was worthy of being
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: undertaken by some private persons of rank and distinction, and
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: carried into execution at their own expense, notwithstanding public encouragement
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: was denied it. Lord Bellamont approved of this project, but
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: it was attended with considerable difficulty. At length. However, the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Lord Chancellor Somers, the Duke of Shrewsbury, the Earl of Romney,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the Earl of Oxford, and some other persons, with Colonel
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Levingstone and Captain Kydd, agreed to raise six thousand pounds
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: for the expense of the voyage, and the Colonel and
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the Captain were to have a fifth of the profits
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: of the whole undertaking. This plan was so highly approved
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: of by King William, who thought it would produce such
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: great advantages to his subjects, that he promised to contribute
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: to its success, and therefore a reserve was agreed to
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: be made of a tenth part of the effects seized
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: from the pirates for the use of his majesty, But
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: after the contract was concluded, the King could not spare
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: his share of the money, and therefore the whole was
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: advanced by the above mentioned persons. Matters being thus far adjusted,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a commission in the usual form was granted to Captain
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Kidd to take and seize pirates and bring them to justice,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: but there was no special clause or proviso to restrain
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: his conduct or to regulate the mode of his proceeding.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Kid was known to Lord Bellamont, and another gentleman presented
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: him to Lord Romney. With regard to the other parties concerned,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: he was wholly unacquainted with them, and so ill was
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: this affair conducted, that he had no private instruction how
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: to act, but received his sailing orders from Lord Bellamont,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the purport of which was that he should act agreeable
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to the letter of his commission. Accordingly, a vessel was
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: purchased and manned, and received the name of the Adventure Galley,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and in this Captain Kidd sailed from New York towards
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the close of the year sixteen ninety five, and in
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: his passage made a prize of a French ship. From
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: New York, he sailed to the Madeira Islands, thence to
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Buena Visto and Saint Iago, and from this last place
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: to Madagascar. He now began to cruise at the entrance
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: of the Red Sea, but not being successful in those latitudes,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: he sailed to Calicut and there took a ship of
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty tons burden, which he carried to
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Madagascar and was disposed of there. Having sold his prize,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: he again put to sea, and act the expiration of
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: five weeks, took the Quata Merchant, a ship of above
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: four hundred tons burden, the master of which was an
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Englishman named Wright, who had two Dutch mates on board
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: and a French gunner. But the crew consisted of Moors,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: natives of Africa, and were about ninety in number. He
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: carried the ship to Saint Mary's near Madagascar, where he
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: burnt the adventure gallery belonging to his owners, and divided
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the lading of the Quada Merchant with his crew, taking
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: forty shares to himself. They then went on board the
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: last mentioned ship and sailed for the West Indies. It
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: is uncertain whether the inhabitants of the West Indian Islands
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: knew that Kidd was a pirate. He was refused refreshments
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: at Anguilla and Saint Thomas's, and therefore sailed to Mona,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: between Porto Rico and Hispaniola, where through the management of
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: an Englishman named Bolton, he obtained a supply of provisions
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: from Cirosal. He now bought a sloop of Bolton, in
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: which he stowed greater part of his ill gotten effects,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: and left the Quata Merchant with eighteen of the ship's
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: company in Bolton's care. While at Saint Mary's, ninety men
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: of Kid's crew left him and went on board the
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Mucca Merchant, an East India ship which had just then
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: commenced pirate. Kid now sailed a sloop and touched at
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: several places where he disposed of a great part of
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: his cargo, and then steered for Boston in New England.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: In the interim, Bolton sold the Quata Merchant to the
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Spaniards and immediately sailed as a passenger in a ship
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: to Boston, where he arrived considerable time before Kid, and
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: gave information of what happened to Lord Bellamont, then the
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: resident Governor. Kid therefore, on his arrival, was seized by
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: order of his lordship, when all he had to urge
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: in his defense was that he thought that the Quada
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Merchant was a lawful prize, as she was manned with moors,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: though there was no kind of proof that this vessel
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: had committed any act of piracy. Upon this, the Earl
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: of Bellamont immediately dispatched an account to England of the
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: circumstances that had arisen, and requested that a ship might
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: be sent for Kidd, who had committed several other notorious
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: acts of piracy. The ship Rochester was accordingly sent to
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: bring him to England. But this vessel, happening to be disabled,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: was obliged to return, a circumstance which greatly increased a
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: public clamor which had for some time subsisted respecting this affair.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: It is not to be doubted but that this clamor
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: took its rise from party prejudice. Yet it was carried
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: to such a height that the members of Parliament for
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: several places were instructed to move the House for an
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: inquiry into the affair, And accordingly it was moved in
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the House of Commons that quote the letters patent granted
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: to the Earl of Bellamont and others respecting the goods
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: taken from pirates were dishonorable to the King, against the
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: law of nations, contrary the laws and statutes of this realm,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: an invasion of property and destructive to commerce end quote.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Though a negative was put on this motion, yet the
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: enemies of Lord Somers and the Earl of Oxford continued
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: to charge those noblemen with giving countenance to pirates, and
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: it was even insinuated that the Earl of Bellamont was
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: no less culpable than the actual offenders. Another motion was
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: accordingly made in the House of Commons to address his Majesty,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: that quote kid might not be tried till the next
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: session of Parliament, and that the Earl of Bellamont might
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: be directed to send home all examinations and other papers
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: relative to this affair end quote. This motion was carried
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: and the King complied with the request, which was made
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: as soon as Kyd arrived in England. He was sent
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: for and examined at the bar of the House of Commons,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: with a view to fix part of his guilt on
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: the parties who had been concerned in sending him on
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: the expedition, but nothing arose to criminate any of those
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: distinguished persons. Kid, who was in some degree intoxicated, made
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: a very contemptible appearance at the bar of the house,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: on which a member, who had been one of the
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: most earnest to have him examined, violently exclaimed, damn this fellow.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I thought he had been only a knave, But unfortunately
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: he happens to be a fool. Likewise, Kid was at
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: length tried at the Old Bailey, and was convicted on
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: the clearest evidence, but neither at that time nor afterwards
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: charged any of his employers with being privy to his
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: infamous proceedings. He was hanged at Execution Dock on the
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: twenty third day of May seventeen o one. But a
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: circumstance happened at his execution that will be worthy of recital.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: After he had been tied up to the gallows, the
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: rope broke and he fell to the ground. But being
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: immediately tied up again, the ordinary who had before exhorted him,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: desired to speak with him once more, and on his
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: separate second application, entreated him to make the most careful
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: use of the few farther moments thus providentially allotted him
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: for the final preparation of a soul to meet its
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: important change. These exhortations appeared to have the wish for effect,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: and he was left professing his charity to all the
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: world and his hopes of salvation through the merits of
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: his redeemer. In this manner ended the life of Captain Kidd,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: a man who, if he had entertained a proper regard
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: to the welfare of the public, or even to his
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: own advantage, might have become a useful member of society
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: instead of a disgrace to it. The opportunities he had
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: obtained of inquiring a complete knowledge of the haunts of
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: the pirates rendered him one of the most proper men
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: in the world to have extirpated this nest of villains.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: But his own avarice defeated the generous views of some
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: of the greatest and most distinguished men of the age
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: in which he lived. Hence we may learn the destructive
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: nature of avarice, which generally counteracts all of its own purposes.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Captain Kidd might have acquired a fortune and and rendered
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: material service to his country in point of the most
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: essential interest, but he appeared to be dead to all
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: those generous sensations which do honor to humanity, and materially
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: injured his country while he was bringing final disgrace on himself.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: The history of this wretched malefactor will effectually impress on
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: the mind of the reader the truth of the old
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: observation that quote, honesty is the best policy unquote. Henceforth,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: let honor's path be trod, nor villains seek in vain
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: to mock the sacred laws of God and give their
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: neighbors pain. Account of the parentage, life, execution, and et
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: cetera of Hermann Staudmann, who suffered at Tyburn for the
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: murder of Peter Walter Henry Stodman, who came of a
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: good family, was born in Revel in Leesland about the
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: year sixteen eighty three. His parents, who were of a
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: religious disposition, gave him a liberal and pious education. He
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: was sent by his father to school at Lubick in
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: the year sixteen ninety four, where he remained till Michaelmas
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: sixteen ninety eight. At this period he went to Hamburg,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: where he continued some months, and then in company with
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: a young countrymen of his name Peter Walter embarked for England,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: and on their arrival in London they were both bound
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: apprentices to Messrs Stein and Dorian, merchants and partners. Both
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: these young gentlemen lived together in great harmony for a
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: considerable time. But in the month of August, preceding the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: fatal tragedy of which we were about to recite the particulars,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: mister Dorian was married to the sister of Peter Walter.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Hereupon the latter began to assume heirs of consequence, and
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: behaved with so much insolence to Stodman that his pride
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: took the alarm. They had several quarrels, and Walter beat
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Stodman twice, at one time in the counting house and
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: in another before the serving girls in the kitchen. Walter
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: likewise produced Stodman to his masters, who thereupon denied him
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: the liberty and other gratifications that were allowed his fellow apprentice.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Hereupon Stodman conceived an implacable hatred against him, and resolved
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: to murder him in some way or other. His first
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: intention was to have poisoned him, and with this view
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: he mixed some white mercury with the white powder which
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Walter used to keep in a glass in his bedroom
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: as a remedy for the scurvy, but this happening to
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: be done in the midst of winter, Walter had declined
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: taking the powder, so that the other thought of destroying
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: him by the more expedition method of stabbing. This scheme, however,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: was delayed from time to time, while Walter's pride and
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: arrogance increased to such a degree that the other thought
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: he should at length be tempted to murder him in
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: sight of the family. Hereupon, Stodman desired one of the
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: maids to intimate to his masters his inclination to be
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: sent to the West Indies. But no answer being given
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: to his requests, Stodman grew so uneasy and his enmity
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: against his fellow Prentice increased to such a degree that
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the Dutch maid, observing the agitation of his mind, advised
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: him to a patient submission to this situation as the
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: most probable method of securing his future peace. Unfortunately, he
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: paid no regard to this good advice, but determined on
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: the execution of the fatal plan, which afterwards led to
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: his destruction. On the morning of Good Friday, Staudman and
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: was sent out on business, but instead of transacting it,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: he went to Greenwich with an intention of returning on
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Saturday to perpetuate the murder, but reflecting that his fellow
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: apprentice was to receive the sacrament on Easter Sunday, he
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: abhorred the thought of taking away his life before he
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: had partaken of the Lord's Supper. Wherefore he sent a
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: letter to his masters on the Saturday, in which he
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: asserted that he had been impressed and was to be
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: sent to Chatham on Easter Monday and put on board
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: a ship in the Royal Navy. But while he was
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: at Greenwich he was met by a young gentleman who
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: knew him, and who, returning to London, told Messer Steine
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: and Dorian he believed the story of his being impressed
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: was all invention. Hereupon, mister Steyne went to Chatham to
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: inquire into the real state of the case. When he
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: discovered that the young gentleman's suspicions were all too well founded.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Stodmann went to the church at Greenwich twice on Easter Sunday,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: and on the approach of evening came to London and
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: slept at the Dolphin Inn in Bishopsgate Street. On the
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: following day he returned to Greenwich and continued either at
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: that place or at Woolwich and at the neighborhood, till Tuesday,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: when he went to London, lodged in Lombard Street, and
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: returned to Greenwich on Wednesday, coming again to London on
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: the evening of the succeeding day. He did not return
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: any more to Greenwich, but going to the house of
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: his master, he told them that what he had written
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: was true, for he had been pressed. They gave no
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: credit to this tale, but told him they had inquired
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: into the affair and bid him quit their house. This
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: he did, and took lodging in more Fields, where he
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: lay on that and the following night, and on the
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Saturday he took other lodging at the Sun in Queen Street, London.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Before the preceding Christmas he had procured a key on
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: the model of that belonging to his master's house, that
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: he might go in and out at pleasure. Originally he
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: intended to have made no worse use of this key,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: but it being still in his possession, he let himself
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: into the house between eight and nine o'clock on the
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: evening of the Saturday last mentioned. But hearing footsteps of
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: some persons going upstairs, he concealed himself behind the door
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: in the passage. As soon as the noise arising from
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: the circumstance was over, he went up a pair of
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: stairs to the room adjoining the counting house where he
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: used to sleep, and having found a tinder box, he
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: lighted a candle and put it into his master's dark
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Latin horn, which he carried upstairs to an empty room
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: next to that in which Peter Walter used to lay.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Here he continued a short time, when hearing somebody coming upstairs,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: he put out his candle and fell asleep. Soon afterwards,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: awaking about twelve o'clock, he listened for a while, and,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: hearing no noise, he imagined that the whole family were
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: fast asleep. Hereupon, he descended to the room on the
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: first floor where the tinder box lay, and having lighted
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: his candle, he went to the counting house and took
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: a sum of money and several bills and notes. This
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: being done, he took a piece of wood with which
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: he used to beat tobacco, and going upstairs again, he
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: hastily entered the room where Peter Wolter was asleep, and,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: advancing to his bedside, struck him violently on the head,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: and though his heart in some degree failed him, yet
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: he continued his strokes. As the wounded youth groaned much,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: he took a pillow and lay it on his mouth,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: sat down on the side of the bed, and pressed
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: it hard with his elbows till no appearance of life remained.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Perceiving Walter to be quite dead, he searched his chest
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: of drawers and pockets and took as much money as
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: what he had taken from his masters amounted to above
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: eight pounds. He then packed up some linen and woolen clothes, and,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: going down one pair of stairs, he threw his bundle
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: into a house that was uninhabited. He then went upstairs again, and,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: having cut his candle, lighted both pieces, one of which
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: he placed in a chair close to the bed curtains,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: and the other on a chest of drawers, with a
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: view to have set the house on fire to conceal
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the robbery and murder of which he had been guilty.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: This being done, he went through a window into the
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: house where he had thrown his bundle, and in this
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: place he stayed till five in the morning, when he
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: took the bundle with him to his lodgings in Queen Street,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: where he shifted his apparel and went to the Swedish
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: church in Trinity Lane. After the worship of the congregation
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: had ended, he heard a bill of thanks read, which
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: his masters had sent in devout acknowledgment of their narrow
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: escape themselves and their neighbors had experienced from the fire.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Struck by this circumstance, Stradman burst into tears, but he
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: endeavored as much as possible to conceal his emotions from
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: a gentleman who sat in the same pew with him,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: and who, on their coming out of the church, informed
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: him that the house of Messrs Stein and Dorian narrowly
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: escaped being burnt the preceding night by an accident then unknown,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: but that the destruction was providentially prevented by the Dutch
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: maids smelling the fire and seeing the smoke, so that,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: on her alarming her master, the flames were extinguished with
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: a pail of water. Stradman made an appointment to meet
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: the gentleman who gave him this information on the outer
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: walks of the Royal Exchange in the after noon to
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: go to the Dutch church in the Savoy, but the
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: gentleman not coming to this time. He went alone to
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Stepney Church, and after service was ended, he walked towards
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Mile End, where he saw the two Dutchmen. These must
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: have been Michael van Bergen and his servant Dromulus, who
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: had been hung in chains. This sight gave him a
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: shocking idea of the crime of which he had been guilty,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: and he reflected that he might soon become a like
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: horrid spectacle to mankind. Hence he proceeded to Blackwall, where
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: he saw the captain of a French pirate hanging in chains,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: which gave fresh force to the gloomy feelings of his mind,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: and again taught him to dread a similar fate. After
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: having been thus providentially led to the sight of objects
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: which he would otherwise rather have avoided, he returned to
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: his lodgings in great dejection of mind, but far from
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: repenting or even being properly sensible of the crime he
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: had committed, for as he himself said, his heart did
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: not yet repent for what he had done, and if
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: he had failed murdering his fellow prentice in his bed,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: he should have destroyed him some other way. On his
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: return to his lodgings, he ate supper, said his prayers,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: and went to bed. On the following morning, he went
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: to the white Horse Inn without Cripplegate to receive cash
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: for a bill of twenty pounds which he had stolen
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: from his master's house, But the person who was to
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: have paid it, being gone out, he was desired to
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: call again about twelve o'clock. In the interim, he went
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: to the house of a banker in Lombard Street, who
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: quested him to carry some money for his the banker's sister,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: who was at a boarding school in Greenwich. Stodman said
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: he could not go till the following day, when he
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: would execute the commission. But before he left the house
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: of the banker, he told him that a young man
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: named Greene had been to inquire for him, on which
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Stodman said that if mister green returned, he should be
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: informed that he would come back again at one o'clock. Hence,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: he went again to the white Horse Inn, where he
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: found the party, who told him that he had no
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: orders to pay the money for the bill. Having received
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: this answer, he went to his lodgings, where he dined,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: and then went to the bankers in Lombard Street, where
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: his master Steyne, with mister Green and another gentleman were
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: waiting for him. Mister Steyne asked him if he would
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: go willingly to his house or be carried thither by porters,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: and he replied that he would go of his own accord.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: When he came there, he was asked some questions respecting
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: the atrocious crimes which he had been guilty of, but
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: persisting that he was innocent, he was searched and the
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: twenty pound bill found his possession. They then inquired where
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: he lodged, to which he answered Moore Fields, whereupon they
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: all went thither together, but the people denied his lodging
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: there at that time. Mister Steyn, finding him unwilling to
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: speak the truth, told him that if he would make
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: a full discovery he would be sent abroad out of
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: the reach of justice. Thereupon he mentioned his real lodgings,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: on which they went thither in a coach, and finding
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: the bills and other stolen effects, Stodmann was carried before
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: Sir Humphrey Edwin, who committed him to Newgate on his
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: own confession. He was not tried at the first sessions
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: after his commitment, and in the interval that he lay
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: in prison, some bad people who were confined there trumped
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: up an idle tale for him to tell when he
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: came to trial, and prevailed on him to plead not guilty,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: a circumstance which he afterwards sincerely repented of. On his trial, however,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: there were so many corroborative proofs of his guilt that
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: the jury could not hesitate to convict him, and he
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: receiv'd the sentence awarded by law. While he was under
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: sentence of death, his behavior was remarkably contrite and penitent,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: and when the Ordinary of Newgate told him that the
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: warrant of his execution was come down and that he
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: would suffer in a few days, he said, quote the
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Lord's will be done. I am willing to die. Only
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: I beg of God that I may not, as I deserve,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: die in eternal death, and that though I die here
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: for my most heinous and enormous crimes, yet I may,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: for the love of Christ, live eternally with Him in heaven.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: God bless the King and all my honorable judges. They
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: have done me no wrong, But tis I have done
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: great wrong? The Lord be merciful to me a great sinner,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: else I perish. At times he seemed to despair because
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: he feared that his repentance was not equal to his guilt.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: But then again his mind was occasionally warmed with the
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: hope that his penitence was such as would lead to salvation.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: When at the place of execution he acknowledged his crime,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: for which he professed the sincerest sorrow and repentance, he
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: begged pardon of God for having endeavored with presumptuous lies
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: to conceal those crimes which, being punished in this world,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: his eternal punishment in the next might be avoided. He
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: died full of contrition, penitence, and hope, and suffered a
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: tyburn on the eighteenth of June seventeen o one, and
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: it was remarked that he kept his hands lifted up
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: for a considerable time time after the cart was drawn away.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: This is the end of volume one, Part two. This
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: is part three, Volume one of the New and Complete
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: Newgate Calendar, read by Roy Schreiber. This LibriVox recording is
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Particular account of the life and
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: amours of Mary Adams, who is executed at Tyburn for
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: privately stealing. This young woman, who was the daughter of
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: a journeyman shoemaker, was born at readinghen Berkshire, and when
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: she was old enough to go to service, went to
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: live with a grocer in that town. As Mary was
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: a girl of vivacity and genteel figure, she soon attracted
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: the regard of the grocer's son, and the consequence of
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: their connection became very conspicuous in a short time. As
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: soon as it was evident that she was pregnant, she
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: was dismissed from her master's service, on which she immediately
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: made oath that his son was the father of the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: child thereafter to be borne, a circumstance that compelled the
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: old gentleman to support her till after she was brought
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: to bed. She soon had been delivered before she went
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: to London and entered into the service of a mercer
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: in Cheapside, where by prudent conduct she might have retrieved
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: the character she had forfeited in the country. But prudence
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: was not among the number of her virtues, For though
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: she had already suffered from her indiscretion, an intimacy soon
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: subsisted between her master and herself, but as their associations
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: could not conveniently be held at home, they contrived to
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: meet on evenings at other places when the mistress of
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: the house was gone to the theater or out on
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: a visit. This connection continued till the girl was far
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: advanced in her pregnancy, when the master, apprehensive of disagreeable
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: consequences at home, advised the girl to quarrel with her
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: man mistress in order that she might be dismissed, and
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: then took a lodging for her at Hackney, where she
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: remained till she was delivered, and in the meantime the
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: connection between her and her master continued as before. Being
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: brought to bed of a child that died a few
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: hours after its birth, the master thought himself happy, supposing
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: he could easily free himself from the encumbrance of the mother,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: of whom he now began to be heartily tired. When
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: the girl recovered from her lying in, he told her
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: that she must go into service, and it did not
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: suit him to maintain her any longer. But this enraged
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: her to the highest degree, and she threatened to discover
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: the nature of their connection to his wife unless he
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: would make her a present of twenty guineas. And with
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: this demand he thought it prudent to comply, happy to
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: get rid of her even and such terms. Being now
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: in possession of money and in no want of clothes
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: in which to make a genteel appearance, she removed from
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Hackney to which street without temple bar, but was scarcely
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: settled in her new lodgings before she sent a letter
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: to the mercer's wife, whom she acquainted with the nature
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: of the connection that had subsisted between her late master
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: and herself, but she did not mention her place of
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: abode in this letter. The consequence was the mercer was
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: obliged to acknowledge the crime of which he had been
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: guilty and solicit his wife's pardon in terms of the
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: utmost humiliation. This pardon was promised, but whether it was
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: ever ratified remains a doubt. Missus Adams had the advantage
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: of an engaging figure and passing as a young widow
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: in her new lodgings. She was soon married to a
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: young fellow in the neighborhood, but it was not long
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: before he discovered the imposition that had been put upon him,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: on which he embarked on board a ship in the
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Royal Navy. By this time Missus Adams's money was almost expended,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: but as her clothes were yet good, an attorney of
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: Clement's Inn took her into keeping, and after she had
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: lived a short time with him, she went to another
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: of the same profession, with whom she cohabited above two years.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: But on his marriage she was once more abandoned to
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: seek her fortune. Fertile of invention and too proud to
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: condescend to accept of a common service, she became connected
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: with a notorious bawd of drury Lane, who was very
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: glad of her assistance, had promised herself considerable advantages from
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: the association. In this situation, Missus Adams displayed her charms
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: to considerable advantage, and was happy as any common prostitute
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: can expect to be. But alas, what is this happiness
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: but a prelude to the extremity of misery and distress?
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: Such indeed, it was found by missus Adams, who, having
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: been gratified by a gentleman with a considerable sum of money,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: The board quarreled with her respecting the dividing of it,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: and a battle ensuing our heremine was turned out of
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: the house after she had got a black eye in
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: the contest. After this she used to parade in the
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: park in the daytime and walk the streets in the
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: evenings in search of casual lovers. But as she joined
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: the practice of theft to that of incontinence, few of
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: her chance acquaintance escaped being robbed. She was often taken
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: into custody for these practices, but continually escaped through defect
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: of evidence. At length an end was put to her depredations.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: For having enticed a gentleman to a bagno near Covent Garden,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: she picked his pocket of all his money and a
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: bank note to a large amount, and left him while
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: he slept. When the gentleman awaked, he sent immediately noticed
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: to the bank to stop payment, and as missus Adams
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: came soon afterwards to receive the money for the note,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: she was taken into custody and lodged in prison, and
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: being in a short time tried at the Old Bailey.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: She was convicted, received sentence of death, and was executed
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: at Tyburn on the sixteenth of June seventeen o two.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: After her conviction, she lived in the same gay and
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: dissipated manner that she had done before, and was visited
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: by many of her former acquaintance, who supplied her with
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: money to support her extravagance. Agreeable to her own request too,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: their mistaken bounty contributed to purchase her a suit of mourning,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: on which she was executed, and they buried her in
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: as handsome a manner as if her life had been
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: conducted by the rules of virtue, and she had likewise
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: been a woman of fortune. Interesting particulars respecting John Peter Dramati,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: who was hanged at Tyburn for the murder of his wife.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: The unhappy subject of this narrative was the son of
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Protestant parents and born at Savadon in the County of
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Fois in the province of Langedoc in France. He received
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: a religious education, and when he arrived at years of maturity,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: he left his own country on account of the persecution
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: then prevailing there, and went to Geneva. From thence he
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: traveled into Germany and served as a horse grenadier under
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: the Elector of Brandenburg, who was afterwards King of Prussia.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: When he had been in this sphere of life, about
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: a year he came over to England and entered into
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: the service of Lord Havisham, with whom he remained about
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: twelve months, and then enlisted as a soldier in the
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: regiment of Colonel de la Mornonier, And having made two
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: campaigns in Flanders, the regiment was ordered into Ireland, where
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: it was broke, in consequence of which Dramati obtained his liberty.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: He now became acquainted with a widow between fifty and
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: sixty years of age, who, pretending she had a great
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: fortune and allied to the royal family of France. He
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: soon married her on account of her supposed wealth and rank,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: and her understanding of English and Irish, thinking it prudent
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: to have a wife who could speak the languages of
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: the country in which he proposed to spend the remainder
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: of his life. He had not been long married before
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: he found out he had been imposed upon, for his
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: wife had no fortune at all, on which he took
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: a small house and a piece of ground about ten
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: miles from Cork, intending to turn farmer, but being altogether
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: ignorant of husbandry, he found it impossible to subsist by
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: that profession. On which he went to Cork and worked
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: as a skinner, being the trade to which he was
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: brought up. At the expiration of a twelvemonth from his
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: coming to that city, he went to London, and, offering
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: services again to Lord Havisham, he was accepted, and in
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: this service he remained till the preparation of that crime
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: which brought him to a shameful end. The substance of
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: the narrative that Dramatic gave of the cause and consequence
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: of the murder was as follows. His wife, unhappy on
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: account of their separate residence, wished to live with him
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: at Lord Havisham's, which he refused to consent to, saying
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: that his lordship did not know he was married. Hereupon,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: she entreated him to quit his service, which he likewise refused,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: saying that he could not provide himself so well in
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: any other situation, and that it would be ungenerous to
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: leave so indulgent a master. The wife now began to
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: have vince the jealousy of her disposition, and intimated that
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Dramati had fixed his affection on some other woman, And
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: the following circumstance aggravated the malignant disorder that wrangled in
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: her mind. Dramati being attacked by a violent fever about
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: the Christmas preceding the time that the murder was committed,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: his noble master gave orders that all possible care should
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: be taken of him at his lordship's expense. At this period,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Missus Drammaty paid a visit to her husband and again
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: urged him to quit his service, which he positively refused.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: A servant girl now came into the room, bringing him
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: some water gruel, and the wife, suspecting that this was
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: her rival in her husband's affections, once more entreated him
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: to leave his place, in answer to which he said
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: he must be out of his senses to abandon a
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: situation in which he was so well provided for and
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: with such humanity. Dramati, having recovered of his illness, visited
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: his wife at her lodgings as often as was consistent
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: with the duties of his station, but this was not
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: being often enough as she wished him to come. She
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: grew more uneasy than before. At length, Lord Havisham took
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: lodgings at Kensington, and Dramati was so busy in packing
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: up some articles on the occasion that he had no
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: opportunity of acquainting his wife with their removal. At length,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: she learnt this circumstance from another quarter, on which inflamed
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: to the highest degree of rage, she went to Kensington
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: to reproach her husband with his unkindness to her, though
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: he declared he always maintained her as well as he
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: was able, and as proof of it, had given her
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: three guineas. But a little time before the murder was committed.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: Frequent were the disputes between this unhappy man and his wife,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: till on the night ninth of June, Dramati, being sent
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: to London and his business lying near Soho, he called
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: on his wife, who lodged in that neighborhood, and having
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: been with her some time, he was about to take
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: his leave, but she laid hold of him and wanted
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: to detain him. But he got from her and went
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: towards Charring Cross, to which place she followed him. But
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: at length she seemed to yield to his persuasions that
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: she should go home, as he told her that he
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: was going to his lord in spring Green. But instead
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: of going home, she went and waited for him at
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: or near Hyde Park Gate, and in the evening he
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: found her there. As he was going to Kensington. At
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: the park gate, she stopped him and insisted that he
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: should go no further unless he took her with him,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: And after many words had passed between them, she said
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: she would go in spite of his teeth, or else
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: she would have his life, or he should have. He
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: now left her and went towards Chelsea, but she followed
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: him till they came near bloody Bridge, where the quarrel
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: being vehemently renewed, she seized his neckcloth and would have
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: strangled him, whereupon he beat her most unmercifully with his
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: cane and sword, which later he imagined she broke with
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: her hands, as she was remarkable for her strength, and
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: if he had been unarmed, would easily have overpowered him.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: Having wounded her in so many places as to conclude
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: he had killed her, his passion immediately began to subside, and,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: falling on his knees, he devoutly implored the pardon of
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: God for the horrid sin of which he had been guilty,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: and then went to Kensington, where his fellow servants, observing
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: that his clothes were bloody, he said that he had
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: been attacked by two men in Hyde Park who would
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: have robbed him of his clothes, but that he defended
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: himself and broke the head of one of them. This
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: story was credited for the present and on the following
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: day Dramati went to London, where he heard a paper
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: cried in the streets respecting the murder that had been committed,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: And though he dreaded being taken into custody every moment,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: he did not seek to make his escape, but despatched
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: his business in London and returned to Kensington. On the
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: following day, the servants heard a paper cried respecting a
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: barbarous murder that had been committed near bloody Bridge, on
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: which they told their lord of it, hinting that they
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: suspected Dramati to have murdered his wife, as they had
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: been known to quarrel before, and he had come home
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: the preceding evening with his sword, broke the hilt of it, bruised,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: his cane shattered, and some blood on his clothes. Upon this,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: Lord Havisham, with a view to employ him, that he
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: might not think he was suspected, bid him get the
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: coach ready in the interim sent for a constable, who,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: on searching him, found a woman's cap in his pocket,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: which afterwards proved to have belonged to his wife. When
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: he was examined before a Justice of the peace, he
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: confessed that he had committed the crime, but in extenuation
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: of it, said that his wife was a worthless woman
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: who had entrapped him into marriage by pretending to be
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: of royal blood of France and a woman of fortune.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: On his trial, it appeared he went into Lord Havisham's
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: chamber late on the night on which the murder was committed,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: after that nobleman was in bed, and it was supposed
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: that he had an intention of robbing his lordship, who
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: called out to know what he wanted. But in a
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: solemn declaration dramatic made after his conviction, he steadfastly denied
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: any intention of robbing his master, but only went into
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: the room to fetch a silver tumbler which he had forgot,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: that he might have it in readiness to take in
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: some asses milk in the morning for his lordship. The
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: body of Missus Drammaty was found in a ditch between
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: Hyde Park and Chelsea, and a track of blood was
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: seen to the distance of twenty yards, at the end
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: of which a piece of a sword was found sticking
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: in a bank, which fitted the other part of the
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: sword in the prisoner's possession. The circumstances attending the murder
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: being proved to the satisfaction of the jury, the culprit
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: was found guilty, condemned, and on the twenty first of
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: July seventeen o three was executed at Tyburn and yielded
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: up his life a sincere penitent, not only with respect
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: to the crime for which he suffered, but for all
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: others of which he had been guilty. Narrative of the life,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: execution and wonderful recovery of John Smith, called half Hanged Smith,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: with cursory remarks on his extraordinary escape. John Smith was
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: the son of a farmer at Malton, about fifteen miles
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: from the city of York, who bound him apprentice to
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: a packer in London, with whom he served out his
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: time and afterwards worked as a journeyman. He then went
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: to see as a merchantman, after which he enlisted on
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: board a man of war and was at the famous
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: expedition against Vigo. But on the return from that expedition
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: he was liberated. Smith had not been long disengaged from
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: the naval service when he enlisted as a soldier in
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: the Regiment of Guards commanded by Lord Kutts. But in
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: this station he soon made bad connections and engaged with
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: some of his dissolute companions as a housebreaker. On December fifth,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: seventeen o five, he was arraigned on four different indictments,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: on two of which he was convicted and received sentence
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: of death. While he lay under sentence, he seemed very
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: little affected with his situation, being amused with the hopes
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: of a reprieve through the interest of his friends. An order, however,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: came for his execution on the twenty fourth day of
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: the same month, in consequence of which he was carried
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: to Tyburn, where he performed his devotions and was turned
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: off in the usual manner. But when he was hung
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: near fifteen minutes, the people present cried out a reprieve,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: a reprieve. Hereupon the malefactor was cut down, and being
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: conveyed to a house in the neighborhood. He soon recovered
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: in consequence of bleeding and other proper applications. As soon
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: as he had recovered his senses, he was asked what
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: were his feelings at the time of execution, to which
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: he repeatedly replied in substance as follows that quote. When
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: he was turned off, he for some time was sensible
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: of very great pain occasioned by the weight of his body,
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: and felt his spirits in a strange commotion, violently pressing upwards. That,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: having forced their way to his head, he, as it were,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: saw a great blaze or glaring light, which seemed to
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: go out at his eyes with a flash, and then
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: he lost all sense of pain. That, after he was
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: cut down and began to come to himself, the blood
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: and spirits forcing themselves into their former channels, put him,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: by a sort of pricking or shooting, to such intolerable
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: pain that he could have wished those hanged who had
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: cut him down end. Smith, after this narrow escape from
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: the grave, pleaded to his pardon on the twentieth of February.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: Yet such was his propensity to evil deeds, that he
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: returned to his former practices, and, being again apprehended, was
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: tried at the Old Bailey for house braiding, But some
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: difficulties arising in the case, the jury brought in a
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: special verdict in consequence of which the affair was left
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: to the opinion of twelve judges, who determined in favor
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: of the prisoner. Notwithstanding the second extraordinary escape, he was
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: a third time indicted, but the prosecutor, happening to die
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: before the day of trial, he once more obtained that
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: liberty which his conduct proved to be so unmerited. There
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: is no account what became of this man after this
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: third remarkable incident in his favor, but Christian charity inclines
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: us to hope that he made a proper use of
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: the singular dispensations of providence. So ably evinced in his
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: own person account of the conviction, trial, and execution of
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: Deborah Churchill as an accomplice in the murder with Hunt.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Deborah Churchill, whose fate gives rise to this narrative, was
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: born about the year sixteen seventy eight in a village
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: near Norwich. She had several children by her husband, mister Churchill,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: but her temper not being calculated to form him domestic happiness,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: he repined at his situation and destroyed himself by intoxication. Deborah,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: after this event, came to London, and, being too much
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: idle and too proud to think of earning a subsistence
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: by her industry, she ran considerably into debt, and in
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: order to extricate herself from her encumbrances, had recourse to
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: a method which was formerly as common as it was unjust.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: Going to a public house in Holborn, she saw a
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: soldier and asked if he would marry her. The man
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: immediately answered in the affirmative, on which they went in
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: a coach to the fleet, where the nuptial knot was
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: instantly tied. Missus Churchill, whose maiden name is unknown, having
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: obtained a certificate of her marriage, enticed her husband to
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: drink till he was quite inebriated, and then gave him
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: the slip, happy in this contrivance to screen herself from
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: an arrest. A little after this, she cohabited with a
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: young fellow named Hunt, with whom she lived more than
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: six years. Hunt appears to have been a youth of
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: a rakish disposition. He behaved very ill to this unhappy woman, who, however,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: loved him to distraction, and at length forfeited her life
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: in consequence of the regard that she had for him.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: One night, as mister Hunt and one of his associates
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: were returning from the theatre in company with Missus Churchill.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: A quarrel arose between the men, who immediately drew their swords,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: while Missus Churchill, anxious for the safety of mister Hunt,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: interposed and kept his antagonist at a distance, in consequence
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: of which he received a wound, of which he died
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: almost immediately. No sooner was the murder committed than Hunt affected.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: His escape and eluding his pursuers, arrived safely in Holland,
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: but Missus Churchill was apprehended on the spot, and being
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: taken before a magistrate, was committed to Newgate. November seventeen
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: o eight. At the sessions held at the Old Bailey,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: Missus Churchill was indicted as an accomplice on the Act
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: of the first Year of King James, the first called
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: the Statute of Stabbing, by which it is inactive. That quote,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: if anyone stabs another who hath not at that time
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: a weapon drawn, or hath not first stricken, the party
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: who stabbed is deemed guilty of murder if the person
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: stabbed died within six months afterwards end quote. Missus Churchill,
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: being convicted, pleaded a state of pregnancy in bar for execution,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: and a jury of matrons being impaneled, declared that they
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: were ignorant whether she was with child or not. Hereupon,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: the court, willing to allow all reasonable time in a
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: case of this nature, respite a judgment for six months,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: at the end of which time she received sentence of death,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: as there was no appearance of her being pregnant. This
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: woman's behavior was extremely penitent, but she denied her guilt
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: to the last moment of her life, having no conception
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: that she had committed murder because she did not herself
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: stab the deceased. She was hanged to Tyburn on the
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: seventeenth of December seventeen o eight. Full account of the lives, insurrections,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: and execution of Daniel Demray and George Purchase, who were
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: hanged to Tyburn for high treason. When the weak ministry
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: of Queen Anne was turned out of or in the
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: modern phrase, had resigned their places, the Tory ministry who
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: succeeded them encouraged a young divine named Henry Sir Chevril
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: to inflame the passions of the public by preaching against
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: the settlement made at the Revolution and inculcating all those
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: doctrines which were then held as favorable tenets of what
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: was called the High Church Party. Sir Chevril was a
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: man of abilities, and eminently possessed of those kind of
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: talents which are calculated to inspire such sentiments as the
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: preacher wished to impress. His auditors with the public in general,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: were well informed that Doctor Chevrol's discourse tended to instigate
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: the people against the House of Hanover and to insinuate
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: the right of the pretender to the throne of these realms.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: This caused such a general commotion that it became necessary
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: to bring him to a trial in some way, and
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: contrary to all former practice respecting a man of his rank.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: He was tried before the House of Peers, and was
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: silenced for three years upon conviction. But so excited were
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: the passions of the populace in consequence of his insinuations,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: that they almost adored him as a prophet, and some
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: of them were led to commit those outrages which gave
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: rise to the following trials. Two dissenting ministers, Messrs Bradbury
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: and Burgess, having made themselves been conspicuous by preaching in
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: behalf of the revolutionary settlement and freedom of sentiment in
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: matters of religion became the immediate objects of resentment of
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: the mob. What arose in consequence hereof would appear from
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: the following abstract of the trials of the criminals before us.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: Daniel Demray, on the nineteenth of April seventeen ten, was
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: indicted for being concerned with a multitude of men to
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: the number of five hundred, armed with swords and clubs,
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: to levy war against the Queen. A gentleman disposed that
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: going through the temple he saw some thousands of people
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: who had attended doctor Sir Chevrol from Westminster Hall. That
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: some of them said they would pull down Doctor Burgess's
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: meeting house that night and quote. Others differed as to
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: the time of doing it, but all agreed on the act,
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: and the meeting house was demolished on the following night.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: Captain Aoryl swore that on the first of March, hearing
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: that quote the mob had pulled down Doctor Burgess's meeting house,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: he resolved to go among them and to do what
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: service he could to government by making discoveries. End quote.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: Captain Orryl, going to mister Bradbury's meeting, found the people
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: plundering it, who obliged him to pull off his hat.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: After this, he went to Lincoln's inn Field, where he
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: saw a bonfire made of some of the materials of
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: doctor Burgess's meeting house, and saw the prisoner, who twirled
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: his hat and said, quote, damn it, I will lead
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: you on God, damn me. We will have all the
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: meeting houses down, High Church and Sir Chevril huzzah end quote.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: It was proved by another evidence that the prisoner headed
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: part of the mob, some of whom proposed to go
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: to the meeting house in wild Street, but that this
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: was objected to by others, who recommended going to Drury
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: Lane quote, saying that that meeting house was worth ten
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: of that in Wild Street end quote. Joseph Cottiers swore
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: that he saw the prisoner carry a brass sconce from
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: doctor Burgess's meeting house and throw it into the fire
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: in Lincoln's inn Field, who eyeing and crying High Church
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: and Sir several. There was another evidence to prove the
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: concern that the prisoner had in these illegal acts, and
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: several persons appeared in his behalf, but their testimony contradicted
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: each other, and the jury could not credit their evidence,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: but brought in a special verdict. George Purchase was indicted
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: for levying war against Queen Anne and et cetera, in
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: the same manner the dam Ray had been. On this trial,
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: Captain au Ryle deposed that after seeing Doctor Burgess's meeting
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: house demolished and a fire made in Lincoln's inn Fields
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: with some of the materials thereof, he met a party
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: of the Guards, whom he directed to go to Drury Lane,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: where a bonfire was made of the pews and other utensils,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: And that there was a great mob which was dispersed
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: by the guards. That the prisoner was very active, pushing
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: at the breasts of the horses with a drawn sword.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: That this evidence asked what he meant, telling him that
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: in opposing the guard, he opposed the Queen, and he
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: would have persuaded him to put up his sword and
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: go home. But instead of taking this advice, he replied, quote,
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: damn you, who are you for High Church and Sirs
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: several or no, I am God, damn them all meaning
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: the guards, for I am as good a man as
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: any of them all unquote. That he then called to
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: the mob, quote, come on, come on, boys, I'll lead
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: you on. I'm for high Church and so Chevrol, and
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: I'll lose my life and the cause end quote. The
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: captain further deposed that after this the prisoner ran resolutely
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: with his sword in his hand, and made a full
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: pass at the officer who commanded the guards, And if
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: one of the guards had not given a spring and
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: beat his sword down, he would have run the officer
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: through the left flank. That the prisoner now retired a
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: little lower, and the guards had by this time dispersed
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: the mob, having knocked down forty or fifty of them
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: in the action. Richard Russell, one of the guards, deposed
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: that they were ordered by the sergeant to march into
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: Drewlane and to return their bayonets and their drawn swords.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: That when they came to Drewylane there was a bonfire
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: with a large mob about it. That near the fire,
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: the horse were all drawn up into one line with
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: their tails against the wall, that none of the mob
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: might come behind. That the prisoner then stood in the
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: middle of the lane, whose eyeing had came up, and
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: would have thrust himself between the horses, but the guards
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: beat him off with the flats of their swords. The
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: prisoner produced some witnesses, but as what they said did
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: not contradict the testimony the evidences against him, their depositions
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: had no weight. The jury were satisfied with the proofs
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: that had arisen, but having a doubt respecting the points
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: of law, they brought in a special verdict. At the
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: same time and place, Francis Willis was tried for assisting
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: in demolishing the meeting house of Missus Bradbury in Fetter
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: Lane and burning the materials at a bonfire and Holborn,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: but was acquitted for want of sufficient evidence against him,
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: the verdicts respecting Demiray and Purchase being left special. Their
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: cases were argued in the Court of King's Bench in
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: Westminster Hall the following term before Lord Chief Justice Parker
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: and the other judges. When, though every artifice in the
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: law was made use of in their behalf, they were
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: adjudged to be guilty, and in consequence of which they
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: received sentence of death and were executed at Tyburn on
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: the fifteenth of June seventeen ten. This is the end
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: of Volume one, Part three of the New and Complete
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: Newgate Calendar. A Count of Richard Thornhill esquire who has
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: tried for the murder of some chomledeering in a duel
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: and found guilt the of manslaughter. Sir Cholmley, Dearing and
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: mister Thornhill were intimate acquaintance and had dined together on
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: the seventh of April seventeen eleven in the company with
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: several other gentlemen. At the toy at Hampton Court were
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: a quarrel arose, which occasioned the unhappy catastrophe that afterwards happened.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: During the quarrel, Sir Cholmley struck mister Thornhill, and a
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: scuffle ensuing. The wainscot of the room broke down and
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: Thornhill falling. The others stamped on him and beat out
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: some of his teeth. The company, now interposing, Sir Cholmley,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: convinced he had acted improperly, declared that he was willing
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: to ask pardon, but mister Thornhill said that asking pardon
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: was not proper retaliation for the injury he had received,
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: adding quote, Sir Cholmley, you know where to find me unquote.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: Soon after this, the company broke up and the prisoners
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: went home in different coaches without any further steps being
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: taken towards their reconciliation. On the ninth of April, Sir
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: Chelmley went to the coffee house at Kensington and asked
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: for mister Thornhill, who not being there, he went to
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: his lodgings and the servant showed him to the dining room,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: to which he ascended with a brace of pistols in
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: his hands, and soon afterwards mister Thornhill, coming to him,
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: asked him if he would drink tea, but he declined,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: but drank a glass of small beer. After this, the
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: gentlemen ordered a Hackney coach in which they went to
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: tot Hill Fields, and there advanced towards each other in
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: a resolute manner, and fired their pistols. Almost at the
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: same moment. Sir Cholmley, being mortally wounded, fell to the ground,
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: and mister Thornhill, after lamenting the unhappy catastrophe, was going
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: away when a person stopped him, told him he had
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: been guilty of murder, and took him before a Justice
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: of the peace, who committed him to prison. On the
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: eighteenth of May seventeen eleven, Richard Thornhill, Esquire was indicted
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: at the Old Bailey sessions for the murder. In the
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: course of the trial, the above recited facts were proved
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: and a letter was produced, of which the following is
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: a copy. Quote April eighth, seventeen eleven. Sir, I shall
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: be able to go abroad tomorrow morning, and desire you
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: will give me a meeting with your sword and pistols,
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: which I insist on the worthy gentleman who brings you
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: this will concert with you the time and place I
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: think tott Hill Fields will do well. Hyde Park will not,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: as this time of the year, being full of company.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: I am your humble servant, Richard Thornhill end quote. Mister
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: Thornhill's servant swore that he believed this letter to be
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: his master's handwriting, but mister Thornhill hoped the jury would
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: not pay any regard to this terror stimony, as the
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: boy had acknowledged in court that he never saw him write.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: Mister Thornhill called several witnesses to prove how ill he
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: had been used by Sir Cholmley, that he had languished
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: some time of the wounds he had received, during which
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: he could take no other sustenance than liquids, and that
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: his life was in imminent danger. Several persons of distinction
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: testified that mister Thornhill was of a peaceable disposition, and that,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: on the contrary, the deceased was a remarkably quarrelsome temper
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: on behalf of mister Thornhill. It was further deposed that
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: Sir Cholmley, being asked if he came by his hurt
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: through unfair usage, he replied, quote, no, poor Thornhill, I
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: am sorry for him. This misfortune was my own fault,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: of my own seeking. I heartily forgive him, and desire
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: you all to take notice of it, that it may
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: be of some service to him, and that one misfortune
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: may not occasion another. The jury acquitted mister Thornhill of murder,
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: but found him guilty of Man's daughter, in consequence of
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: which he was burnt in the hand a count of
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Mason, who was hanged Tyburn for poisoning her mistress.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Mason was born at Melton Mowbury in Leicestershire, and
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: while very young was conveyed by her friends to Sutton,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, from whence, at age seven years,
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: she was brought to London by missus Scoles, who told
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: her she was her godmother. And with this lady and
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: her sister, missus cholwell she lived till she was apprehended
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: for the commission of the crime for which her life
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: paid the forfeit. This girl, who was employed in household work,
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: having conceived an idea that she should possess the fortune
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: of her mistresses on their death, came to the horrid
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: resolution of removing them by poison. On Thursday in Easter week,
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: Mason being sent of an errand, she went to a
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: druggish shop where she bought a quantity of yellow arsenic
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: on the pretense that it was to kill rats. On
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: the following morning, she mixed this poison with some coffee,
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: of which Missus Scoles drank, and, afterwards, finding herself extremely ill,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: said her end was approaching, and expired the next day
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: in great agonies. Missus Choll, receiving no injury from that
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: little coffee she drank, The girl determined to renew her
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: attempt to poison her, in consequence of which she again
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: went to the same shop about a fortnight afterwards, and
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: bought a second quantity of arsenic, which he put into
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: some water gruel prepared for missus Cholls's breakfast on the
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: following morning. As it happened that gruel was too hot,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: the lady put it aside some time to cool, during
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: which time most of the arsenic sunk to the bottom.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: Having drank some of it, she found herself very ill
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: and observing the sentiment at the bottom of the basin.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: She sent for her apothecary, who gave her a large
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: quantity of oil to drink, by the help of which
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: the poison was expelled. Unfavorable suspicions now arising against Elizabeth Mason,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: she was taken into custody, and being carried before two
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: Justices of the Peace, on the thirtieth of April, she
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: confessed the whole of her guilt, in consequence of which
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: she was committed to Newgate. On the sixth of June
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: seventeen twelve, she was indicted for the murder of Jane's
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: Scoles by mixing yellow arsenic with her coffee, and pleading
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: guilty to the indictment, she received sentence of death, in
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: consequence of which she was executed at Tyburn on the
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: eighteenth of June seventeen twelve. While she lay under sentence
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: of death. The Ordinary of Newgate asked if she had
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: any lover or other person who had tempted her to
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: the commission of the crime, to which she answered in
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: the negative, but owned that she had frequently defrauded her
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: mistresses of money, and then told lies to conceal the
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: depredations of which she had been guilty at the time
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: of her execution. She warned other young people to beware
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: of crime similar to those which had brought her to
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: that fatal end, and confessed the justice of the sentence,
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: which made her a public example a Count of richard
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: Town who was executed for defrauding his creditors under a
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: commission of bankruptcy. In September seventeen twelve. Richard Town was
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: indicted at the Old Bailey for withdrawing himself from his
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: creditors after a commission of bankrupt issued against him, and
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: for removing and fraudulently carrying away fifteen tons of tallow
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: valued at four hundred pounds and four hundred pounds in
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: money with his debt books books of account with intention
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: to defraud his creditors. Having pleaded not guilty to the indictment,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: the Council informed the jury that the Act of Parliament
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: had expressly declared that quote, if any person, being a
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: bankrupt after the month of April seventeen o seven, did
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: fraudulently conceal, embezzle, or make away with goods or money
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: to the value of twenty pounds, he should be deemed
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: guilty of a felony. A number of witnesses were now
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: called to prove his being a regular trader and to
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: make it appear that he had committed an act of bankruptcy.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: But the principle of these was mister Hodgson, who deposed that,
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: being sent after the prisoner by the Commissioners of bankrupt
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: he apprehended him at Sandwich, and searching him by virtue
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: of his warrant, found in his pocket twenty guineas in
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: gold and about five pounds, seven shillings and sixpence in silver,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: and that he had three gold rings on his fingers.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: That he took from him the gold and five pounds
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: in silver and left him the odd silver. Town had
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: intended to sail in a ship which was bound to Amsterdam,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: but being too late, he went on board the packet
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: boat to Ostend, but being taken seasick, he went to
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: the side of the vessel, and stooping down, dropped eight
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: hundred guineas, which were in two bags between his coat
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: and his waistcoat, into the sea. A storm rising at sea,
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: the packet boat was driven back and obliged to put
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: into Sandwich, in consequence of which Town was apprehended by Hodgson,
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: as above mentioned. When Town was examined before the commissioners,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: he acknowledged that he had ordered Thomas Norris to carry
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: off these books of account plate and papers of value,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: and likewise to convey a large quantity of tallow which
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: he supposed was by then arrived in Holland. Now the
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: council for Town insisted that as Norris was joint agent
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: with him, the act of one was the act of both,
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: and he could not legally be convicted till the other,
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: who was then abroad, could be apprehended and tried with him.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: But in order to frustrate this argument, it was proved
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: that Town had shipped off large quantities of goods on
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: his own account, besides the circumstance of his being taken
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: at Sandwich by mister Hodson with more than twenty pounds
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: of his creditor's money in his possession was a sufficient
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: proof of his guilt. Wherefore the jury did not hesitate
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: on his case, and he received sentence of death. This
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: unhappy man was a native of the County of Oxford,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: and for some time had carried on a considerable business
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: as a tallow chandler with great reputation. But it appears
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: too evidence that he had formed a design of defrauding
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: his creditors, because at the time of his absconding he
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: had considerable property in funds, and was otherwise in good circumstances.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: Before his conviction, he was indulged with a chamber to
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: himself in the press yard, but after sentence was passed
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: on him, he was put into the condemned hole with
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: the other prisoners. But here he catched a violent cold,
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: which brought on deafness, a disorder to which he had
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: been subject. Wherefore, on complaining of this circumstance, he was
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: removed to his former apartments. While under sentence of death,
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: he refused to acknowledge the justice of his sentence, declaring
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: that a person whom he had relieved and preserved from
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: roon had occasioned his destruction. He attended the devotions of
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: the place declared that he forgave his enemies, and begged
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: that God would likewise forgive them. He was executed at
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: Tyburn on the twenty third of December seventeen twelve, being
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: exactly forty one years of age on that day, a
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: circumstance that are remarked to the ordinary. On his way
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: to the fatal tree. Mister Town was the first person
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: who suffered on the act which made it a felony
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: for a bankrupt to conceal the value of twenty pounds
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: or upwards. It is the fate of many an honest
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: man to become bankrupt, and it is but too common
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: for the unfeeling world to brand all bankrupts with the
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: general name of villain. But we hope, for the honour
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: of human nature that this name is not deserved once
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: where it is applied a thousand times. It has been
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: the misfortune of some of the worthiest men we have
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: ever known to become bankrupts. On the contrary, many of
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: the most condemptible of the human race have been successful traders, and,
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: in the language of the city, have been quote good
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: men unquote. Undoubtedly there have been fraudulent bankruptcies, but comparatively speaking,
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: we believe very few. We have not many instances of
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: traders flourishing in a great degree after a bankruptcy. And
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: what man would wish if it were in his power
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: to meet the public contempt and derision for the sake
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: of embezzling a few paltry hundred pounds, and this too
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: at the hazard of his life. With regard to the
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: particular instance before us, we see a strong proof of
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: the wisdom and justice of Providence in preventing this offender
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: from making his escape, in the first place by the
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: ship being sailed, and in the second by the packet
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: boat being obliged to put back through stress of weather. Hence,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: let all who attempt it to commit crimes of a
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: similar or any other nature, learn that they can never
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: escape the sight of a just God, who ruleth the
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: world in righteousness. A Count of Richard, Noble, attorney at law,
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: who suffered for the murder of John Sayer, esquire with
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: some particulars of the amours of mister Noble and missus Sayer.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: There is something so singular in the case before us
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: that the reader will be glad to have the particulars
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: of an affair that made much noise in the world
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: at the time it happened, and will be remembered the
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: future ages. John Sayer, Esquire was possessed of about a
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: thousand pounds a year and was lord of the manor
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: of Bislden in Buckinghamshire. He does not appear to have
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: been a man of any great abilities, but was remarkable
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: for his good nature and inoffensive disposition. In sixteen ninety
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: nine he married Mary, the daughter of Admiral Neville, a
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: woman of an agreeable person and brilliant wit, but of
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: such an abandoned disposition as to be a disgrace to
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: her sex. Soon after this wedding, Colonel Salisbury married the
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: admiral's widow. But there was such a vicious similarity and
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: conduct of the mother and daughter that the two husbands
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: had early occasion to be disgusted with the choice they
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: had made. Mister Sayer's nuptials had not been celebrated many
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: days before his bride took the liberty of kicking him,
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: and hinted that she would procure a lover with whom
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: she might enjoy those pleasures not to be found with
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: her husband. Sayer, who was distractedly fond of her, bore
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: this treatment with patience, and at the end of a
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: twelvemonth she bare him a daughter, which soon died, But
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: he became still more fond of her after she had
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: made him a father, and was continually loading her with presents.
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: Mister Sayer now he took a house on Lyle Street,
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: lester Fields, kept a coach, and did everything which he
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: thought might gratify his wife. But so far from being
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: influenced by this generous conduct, she declared that she would
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: never again admit him to her bed. Irritated by this treatment,
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: he went amongst the women of the town in consequence,
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: whereof he contracted a disorder that obliged him to have
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: the advice of a surgeon, and his wife, suspecting what
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: had happened, he made no scruple to acknowledge the fact
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: and avowed the occasion of it. His health, however, was
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: soon re established, on which his wife voluntarily admitted him
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: to her bed. But the consequence was that both the
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: parties were soon afterwards indisposed. As the surgeon who had
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: attended mister Sayer was a man of character and perfessed
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: himself ready to swear to the perfection of his cure.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: It was shrewdly suspected that the lady, having contracted the disorder,
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: had given it to her husband in order to criminate
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: him in the opinion of his friends. However this be
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: she effected to be greatly disgusted again, forbade him her bed,
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: and consoled herself with the company of a colonel in
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: the army. At times she behaved with more compliance to
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: her husband, who had after a while the honor of
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: being deemed father of another child, of which she was delivered.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: And after this circumstance, she indulged herself in still greater
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: liberties than before her mother, who was almost constantly with her,
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: encouraging her in the shameful prostitution of manners. At length,
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: a scheme was concerted which would probably have ended in
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: the destruction of mister Sayer and Colonel Salisbury if it
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: had not been happily prevented by the prudence of the latter.
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: The colonel taking an opportunity to represent to missus Sayer
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: the ill consequences that must attend her infidelity to her husband,
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: she immediately attacked him with the most outrageous language and
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: insulted him to such a degree that he threw the
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: remains of a dish of tea at her. The mother
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: and daughter immediately laid hold of this circumstance to inflame
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: the passions of mister Sayer, whom they at length prevailed
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: on to demand's satisfaction of the colonel. The challenge is
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: said to have been written by missus Sayre, and when
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: the colonel received it, he conjectured that it was a
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: plan concerted between the ladies to get rid of their husbands. However,
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: he obeyed the summons, and, going in a coach with
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: mister Sayer towards Montague House, he addressed him as follows quote, Son, say,
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: let us come to a right understanding of this business.
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: Tis well known that I am a swordsman, and I
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: should be very far from getting any honor by killing you.
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: But to come nearer the point in hand, thou shouldst know, Jack,
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: for all the world knows that thy wife and mine
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: are both wares. They want to get rid of us
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: at once. If thou shouldst drop, they'll have me hanged
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: for it. After end quote. There was so much of
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: obvious truth in this remark that mister Sayre immediately felt
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: its force, and the gentleman drove home together to the
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: great mortification of the ladies. Soon after this affair, Missus
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: Sayre went to her house in Buckinghamshire, where an intimacy
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: took place between her and the Curate of the parish,
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: and there amour was conducted with so little reserve that
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: all the servants saw that the parson had more influence
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: in the house than the master. Missus Sayre coming to London,
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: was soon followed by the young clergyman who was seized
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: with the small pox, which cost him his life. When
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: he found that there was no hope of his recovery,
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: he sent to mister Sayer earnestly requesting to see him.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: But Missus Sayre, who judged what he wanted, said her
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: mother had not had the small pox, and such a
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: visit might cost her her life. Wherefore she insisted that
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: her husband should not go, and the passive man tamely
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: submitted to this injunction, though his wife daily sent a
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: footman to inquire after the clergyman, who died without being
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: visited by mister Sayer. This gentleman had not been long
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: dead before his place was supplied by an officer of
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: the guards, but he was soon dismissed in favor of
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: a man of great distinction, who presented her with some
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: valuable china, which he pretended was one at astrop Wells.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: About this time mister Sayre found his affairs considerably deranged
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: by his wife's extravagance, on which a gentleman recommended to
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: him mister Richard Noble, an attorney, as a man capable
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: of being very serviceable to him. Noble was the son
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: of a man who kept a very reputable coffee house
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: at Bath. His parents lived in great credit, and his
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: mother was so virtuous a woman that when Noble afterwards
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: went to her house with Missus Sayer in a coach
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: and six, she shut the door against him. Noble had
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: been well educated and articled to an attorney of eminence
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: at New Inn, in which he afterwards took chambers for himself,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: but he had not been in any considerable degree of
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: practice when he was introduced to mister Sayer. Noble had
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: not been long acquainted with the family before he became
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: too intimate with Missus Sayer, and, if reports said true,
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: with her mother. Likewise, However, these two abandoned women had
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: other matters in prospect besides mere gallantry and Considering Noble
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: as a man of business as well as a lover,
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: they conserted a scheme to deprive mister Sayer of a
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: considerable part of his estate. The unhappy gentleman, being perpetually
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: teased by the women, at length consented to execute a
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: deed of separation in which he assigned some lands in
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: Buckinghamshire to the amount of one hundred and fifty pounds
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: a year to his wife, exclusive of fifty pounds a
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: year for pin money. And by this deed he likewise
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: covenanted that Missus Sayre might live with whom she pleased,
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: and that he would never molest any person on account
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: of harboring her. Mister Sayre was even so weak as
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: to sign this deed without having a counsel of his
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: own to examine it. Not long after, Missus Sayre was
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: delivered of a child at Bath. But that her husband
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: might not take alarm at this circumstance, Noble sent him
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: a letter acquainting him that was to be pricked down
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: for High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, and Missus Salisbury had urged
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: him to go to Holland to be out of the way,
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: and supplied him him with some money on the occasion.
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: It does not seem probable that Sayre had any suspicion
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: of Noble's criminal intercourse with his wife. For the night
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: before he set out, he presented him with a pair
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: of saddle pistols and furniture worth forty pounds. Soon after
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: he was gone, missus Sayer's maid, speaking of the danger
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: her master might be in at sea. The abandoned woman said, quote,
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: she should be sorry his man, James, a poor, innocent fellow,
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: should come to any harm, but she should be glad
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: and earnestly wished that mister Sayer might sink to the
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: bottom of the sea, and that the bottom of the
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: ship might come out end quote. Not long after mister
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: Shayer was gone abroad, Noble began to give himself airs
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: of greater consequence than he had hitherto done. He was
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: solicitor in a case in the court of Chancery in
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: which mister Sayer was plaintive, and having obtained a decree,
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: he obliged the trustees nominated in the marriage articles to
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: relinquish and assumed the authority of a sole trustee. Mister
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: Sayre remained in Holland near a year during which Noble
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: publicly cohabited with his wife, and when her husband returned,
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: she refused to live with him, but having first robbed
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: him of above two thousand pounds in exchequer bills and
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: other effects, she went to private lodgings with Noble, soon
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: after which she was delivered of another child. After Missus
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: Sayre had thus aluved from her husband, he caused an
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: advertisement to be inserted in the newspapers, of which the
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: following is a copy. Whereas Mary, the wife of John
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: Sair Esquire, late of Lyles Street, Saint Anne's, went away
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: from her dwelling house Honor about the twenty third of
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: May last, in company with Elizabeth Neville, sister to the
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: said Mary, and Hath carried away near a thousand thousand
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: pounds in money, besides other things of considerable value. It
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: is supposed to go by some other name. He desires
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: all tradesmen and others not to give her any credit.
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: For that he will not pay the same end. While
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: Missus Sair cohabited with Noble, he was constantly supplied with money,
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: but he was not her only associate at that time,
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: for during his occasional absence, she gratified herself with the
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: company of other lovers. Noble now procured an order from
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: the Court of Chancery to make mister Sair an execution
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: for four hundred pounds at the suit of Missus Salisbury,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: the consequence of a judgment confessed by him for form's
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: sake to protect his goods from his creditors. While he
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: was in Holland. Mister Sair declared that the real debt
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: was not more than seventy pounds, though artful management and
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: legal expenses had swelled it to the above mentioned sum. Hereupon,
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: Sarah took refuge within the rules of the fleet prison
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: and exhibited his bills in chancery for relief against these
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: suits and the deed of separation which he obtained. But
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: before he had an opportunity of suing out judgment against Noble,
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: the vengeance of Heaven overtook that abandoned villain. Missus Sayer,
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: finding herself liable to be exposed by the advertisement her
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: husband had cause to be inserted in the newspapers. She
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: with her mother and Noble took lodgings in the Mint,
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: southok which was at that time a place of refuge
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: for great numbers of persons of desperate circumstances and abandoned dispositions.
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: Mister Sayer was now informed that his wife had taken
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: lodgings in the Mint, on which he wrote several letters
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: to her, promising that he would forgive all her crimes
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: if she would return to her duty. But she treated
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: his lite utters with as much contempt as she had
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: done his person. Hereupon he determined to seize on her
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: by force, presuming that he should recover some of his
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: effects if he could get her into his custody. He
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: therefore obtained the warrant of a justice of the peace,
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: and taking with him two constables and six assistants, went
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: to the house of George Twifford in the Mint. The constables,
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: intimating that they had a warrant to search for a
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: suspected person, for it had been thought that they were bailiffs,
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: their lives would have been in danger. Having entered the house,
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: they went to a back room where Noble Missus Sayer
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: and Missus Salisbury were at dinner. But the door was
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: no sooner opened. The noble drew his sword and stabbing
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: Sare in the left breast. He died on the spot.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: The constables immediately apprehended the murderer and the two women,
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: but the latter was so abandoned that while the peace
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: officers were conveying them to the house of a magistrate,
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: they did little else than lament the fate of Noble,
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: as it appeared as if the mob would rise from
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: an apprehension that the prisoners were debtors. A constable was
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: directed to carry the bloody sword before them in testimony
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: that murder had been committed, which produced the wish for
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: effect by keeping perfect peace. The prisoners begged to send
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: for counsel, which being granted. Noble was committed for trial
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: after an examination of two hours, but the council urged
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: so many arguments in favor of the women that it
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: was ten o'clock at night before they were committed. Soon afterwards,
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: this unworthy mother and daughter applied to the Court of
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: King's Bench to be admitted to bail, but this favor
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: was refused them the coroner's inquest. Having viewed mister Sayer's body,
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: it was removed to his lodgings within the rules of
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: the fleet in order for interment, and three days afterwards
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: they gave a verdict finding Noble guilty of wilful murder,
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: and the two women of having aided and assisted him
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: in that murder. On the evening of March twelfth, seventeen thirteen,
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 1: they were put to the bar at Kingston in Surrey, and,
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: having been arraigned on several indictments and pleaded not guilty,
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: were told to prepare for their trials by six o'clock
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: on the following morning. Being brought down for trial at
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: the appointed time, they moved the court that their trials
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: might be deferred till the afternoon, on the plea that
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: some material witnesses were absent, but the court, not believing
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: their allegations, refused to comply with their request. It was
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: imagined that this motion to put off their trials was
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: founded in the expectation that when the business at the
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: bar was dispatched, many of the jurymen might go home,
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: so that when the prisoners had made their challenges, there
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: might not be a number left sufficient to try them,
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 1: by which they might escape till the next assizes. They
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: hoped some circumstances would happen in their favor, the trial
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: being ordered to come on. Mister Noble and Missus Salisbury
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: each challenged twenty of the jury and Missus Sair challenged
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: thirty five. All persons indicted for felony have a right
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: to challenge twenty jurors, and those indicted for petty treason
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: thirty five. This may be done without alleging any cause,
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: so that it was, owing to the great number of
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: juries summoned by the sheriff, that the ends of public
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: justice were not for the present defeated. It will be
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: unnecessary to recite the particulars of the evidence given on
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: the trial, because those who have read the preceding narrative
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: must be well apprised of its nature. Suffice it to
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: say that the crime of murder was clearly proved against noble. However,
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: his counsel urged that some of the persons who broke
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: into the house might have murdered mister Sayer, or if
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: they had not, the provocation he had received might be
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: such as would warrant the jury to bring him in
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: guilty of man's daughter. Only. As the court had sat
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: from six in the morning till one o'clock the next morning,
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: the jury were indulged with some refreshment before they left
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: the bar, and after being out nine hours, they gave
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: their verdict that mister Noble was guilty, and Missus Salisbury
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: and Missus Sayer were not guilty. When mister Noble was
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: brought to the bar to receive sentence, he made a
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: speech of which the following is a copy quote. My Lord,
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: I am soon to appear and render an account of
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: my sins to God Almighty. If your Lordship should think
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: me guilty of those crimes I have been accused with
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: and convicted of by my jury, I am then sure
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: your Lordship will think that I stand in need of
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: such a reparation, such a humiliation for my great offenses,
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: such an abhorrence of my past life, to give me
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: hopes of a future one that I am not without hopes.
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: That it will be a motive of your Lordship's goodness
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: that after you have judged and sentenced my body to execution,
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: you will charitably assist me with a little time for
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: the preservation of my soul. If I had nothing to
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: answer for, but killing mister Sayer was precedent malice, I
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: should have no need to address myself to your lordship
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: in this manner. It is now too late to take
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: advantage by denying it to your lordship, and too near
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: my end to dissemble it before God. I know, my Lord,
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: the danger, the hell that I should plunge myself headlong into,
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: I know I shall soon answer for the truth I
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: am now about to say before a higher tribunal and
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: a more discerning judge than your Lordship, which is only
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: in Heaven, that I did not take the advantage to
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: kill mister Sayer by a thought or apprehension that I
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: could do it under the umbrage of the law or
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: with impunity. And nothing was more distant from my thoughts
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: than to remove him out of the world to enjoy
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: his wife, as was suggested, without molestation. Nor could any
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: one have greater reluctance or remorse from the time of
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: the fact to the hour of my trial than I
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: have had, Though the prosecutors reported to the contrary, for
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: which I heartily forgive them. My counsel obliged me to
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: say on my trial that I had heard mister Sayer's
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: voice before he broke open the door. I told him,
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: as well as your Lordship, that I did not know
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: it was him till he was breaking in at the door,
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: and then not before was my sword drawn and the
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: wound given, which wound Doctor Garth informed me was so
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: slight that it was a thousand to one that he
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: died of it. When I gave the wound, I insensibly
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: quitted the sword, by which means I left myself open
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: for him to have done what was proved he attempted,
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: and was so likely for him to have effected visit
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: to have stabbed me. Which are the circumstances that manifest
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: the greatness of my surprise. When I heard the company
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: run up the stairs, I was alarmed and in fear,
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: the landlord telling me instantly thereupon that the house was beset,
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: either for me or himself, and added to my confusion.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: I then never thought or intended to do mischief, but
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: first bolted the four door, and then bolted and padlocked
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: the back door, which was glazed, and began to fasten
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: the shutters belonging to it, designing only to screen myself
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: from the violence of the tumult when he broke open
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: the door, and not till then I perceived and knew
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: he was present and his former threats and attempts, which
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: I so fully proved on my trial, and could have
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: proved much fuller had not Missus Salisbury's evidence been taking
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: from me made me fear so great, and the apprehension
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: of my danger so near, that what I did was
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: the natural motion of self defense, and was too sudden
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: to be the result of precedent malice. And I solemnly
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: declare that I did not hear or know from Twifford
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: the Lamb Lord, or otherwise that any constable attended the
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: deceased till after the misfortune happened. It was my misfortune
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: that what I said as to hearing the deceased voice
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: was turned to my disadvantage by the Council against me,
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: And that I was not entitled to any assistance of
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: counsel to enforce the evidence given for me, or to
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: remark upon the evidence given against me, which I don't
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: doubt would have fully satisfied your Lordship and the jury,
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: that what happened was more my misfortune than any design
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: or intention. If I had been able, under the concern
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: to remark upon the evidence against me, that mister Sayer
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: was but the tenth part of a minute in breaking
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: open the door, it could not then well be supposed
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: by the jury that I was preparing myself or putting
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: myself in order to do mischief, which are the acts
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: of forethought and consideration, which require much more time than,
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: as pretended I could have had from the time I
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: discovered mister Sayer, For even from his entry into the
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: house to the time of the accident did not amount,
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: as I am informed, to more than the space of
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: three minutes. But I did not discover him before the
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: door gave way. I wish it had been my good
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: fortune that the jury had applied that to me, which
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: your Lordship remarked in favor of the ladies, that the
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: matter was so very sudden, so very accidental, and unexpected,
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: that it was impossible to be a contrivance and confederacy,
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: and unlikely that they could have come to a resolution
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: in so short a time. I don't remember your Lordship
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: distinguished my case as to that particular to be different
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: from theirs, nor was there room for it. For it
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: is impossible for your Lordship to believe that I had
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: dreamt of mister Sayers coming there at that time. But
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: on the contrary, I fully proved to your Lordship that
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: I went there upon another matter that was lawful and
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: beneficial to the deceased, and that I had no more
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: time to think or to contrive than the ladies had
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: to agree or consent if anything could be construed favorably
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: on the behalf of such an unfortunate wretch as myself.
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: I think the design I had some time before begun
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: and was about finishing that day, might have taken away
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: all suspicion of malice against mister Sayer. Must it be thought,
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: my Lord, that I only am such a sinner that
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: I cannot repent and make reparations to the persons I
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: have injured. It was denied, but I strongly solicited a
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: reconciliation between mister Sayer and his lady. And if this
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: had tended to procure me an easier access to missus Sayer,
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: it would have been such a matter of aggravation to
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: me that it could not have escaped the remark of
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: counsel against me, nor the sharpness of the prosecutors present
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: in court. With both I transacted, and to both I appealed,
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: particularly to mister Nott, to whom but the day before
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: the accident I manifested my desire of having them lived
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 1: together again. And therefore, my Lord, it should be presumed
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: that I labored to be reconciled too, and not to
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: revenge myself on mister sayer, Your Lordship, I hope will
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: observe so much in my favor that it was not
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: so far from being a clear fact in opinion of
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: the jury, that they sat up all night, and, believing
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: there was no malice at that time, told your Lordship
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: they intended and were inclined to find it man's daughter,
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: and doubting the legality of the warrant to find it special.
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: I hope this will touch your Lordship's heart so far
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: as not to think me so ill a man as
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: to deserve what the best Christians are taught to pray
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 1: against a sudden death. I confess I am unprepared the
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: hopes of my being able to make a legal defense,
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: and my endeavors therein having taken up my time, which
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: I wish I had better employed, I beg leave to
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: assure your Lordship, upon the words of a dying man,
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: that as none of the indirect practices to get or
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: suppress evidence were proved upon me, so they never sprang
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: from me, and I can safely say that my blood
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: in a great measure will lie at their door. That
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: did because it drew me under ill imputation of defending
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: myself by subordination of perjury. I would be wall willing
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 1: to do my duty towards my neighbor as well as
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: God before I die. I have many papers and concerns
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: by reason of my profession of my clients in my hands,
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: and who will suffer if they are not put in
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 1: some order? And nothing but these two considerations could make
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: life desirable under this heavy load of irons, and the
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: relentless remorse of conscience for my sins. A short reprieve
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 1: for these purposes I hope will be agreeable to your
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: Lordship's humanity and Christian virtue, whereupon your Lordship's name will
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 1: be blessed with my last breath for giving me an
• 2:16:40
  Speaker 1: opportunity of making peace with my conscience and God Almighty.
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: End quote. The last request that noble Maid was granted.
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: He was allowed some time to settle his spiritual and
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: temporal concerns, and at length was executed at Kingston on
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: the twenty eighth of March seventeen thirteen, exhibiting marks of
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: genuine repentance with regard to the women. They were no
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 1: sooner acquitted than they set out for London, taking one
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: of the turnkeys with them to protect them from the
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: assaults of the populace, who were incensed in the highest
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: degree at the singular enormity of their crimes. Little need
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: be added by way of reflection to this long and
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: interesting narrative. Those who do not see and abhore the
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: extreme wickedness of these abandoned women are not likely to
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: be influenced by any arguments we can use. The situation
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: of mister Sayer is pitiable in a high degree. He
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: was distractedly fond of a woman who despised him, and
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: who despised everything that bore the semblance of virtue. The
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: fate of noble was no other than that that he
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 1: merited by a long and obstinate personance in a course
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: of vice and ingratitude. His baseness is almost unexampled. We
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: hope the force of the following advice of the wise
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: King Solomon will be felt by all our readers. Quote.
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 1: Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: not into the way of evil. Men, avoid it, pass
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 1: not by it, turn from it. Pass away. For they
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: sleep not except that they have done mischief, and their
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall end.
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 1: Quote this is the end of Part four account of
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 1: John Hamilton, Esquire, who has trod in Scotland for murder
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 1: and beheaded. This offender was born in the County of
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: Clydesdale and was related to the Doucial family of Hamilton.
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: His parents, to whom he was an only son, sent
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: him to Glasgow to study the law, but the young
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: gentleman's disposition leading him to the profession of arms. His
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 1: friends exerted their interest to procure him a commission, but
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: the intervention of the crime of which we are about
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: to relate the particulars prevented their generous intention taking effect.
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: Young Hamilton soon becoming connected with some abandoned young gentlemen
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: at Edinburgh. He lost considerable sums at gaming, and going
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 1: to his parents for more. They supplied him for the present,
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: but said they would not advance him any farther sums
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: while he continued his dissipated course of life. Being possessed
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: of this money, Hamilton went to a village near Glasgow
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: to meet his companions at a public house kept by
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: Thomas Arkell. Having drank and gained for several successive days
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: and nights, Hamilton's companions left him while he was asleep
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: leaving him to discharge the bill, which exceeded his ability.
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: A quarrel ensued between him and Arkell, and while they contended,
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 1: Arkell stripped Hamilton's sword from the scabbard. The latter immediately
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: ran away, but finding he had no scabbard to his sword,
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: he instantly went back to the house. When Arkell, calling
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: him several scandalous names, he stabbed him so that he
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: was instantly expired. The daughter of Arkell, being present, attempted
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 1: to seize Hamilton, in doing which she tore off the
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: skirt of his coat, which was left on the floor,
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: together with his sword on his effecting a second escape.
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: This daughter of Arkell was almost blind, but her keeping
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: the sword and the skirt of the coat proved the
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 1: means of bringing Hamilton to justice. The murderer having gone
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: to lithe embarked on board a ship and landed in Holland,
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: where he continued two years, but his parents dying in
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: the interval. He returned to Scotland when he was taken
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: into custody on account of the murder. On his trial,
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: he pleaded that he was intoxicated at the time the
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: fact was committed, to which he was instigated by the
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 1: extreme ill usage he had received from Arkell. The jury,
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: not allowing the force of these arguments, found him guilty,
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 1: and he was sentenced to be beheaded by the maiden.
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: To give a description of which instrument may be grateful
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: to our readers. The town of Halifax, in Yorkshire, having
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 1: been anciently famous for the manufacture of woolen cloths, a
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: law was made for the protection of the property of
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 1: the manufacturers, by which it was ordained that persons convicted
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: of stealing cloth from the tenter grounds should be executed
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: immediately after being convicted before two justices of the peace.
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 1: Whatever the necessity there might appear for enacting the law
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: in question, we cannot but lament that any English wishman
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: should suffer without the formality of a trial by jury.
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 1: The machine by which persons thus convicted were executed was
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: constructed in the following manner quote. Two strong wooden beams
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 1: were fixed on a scaffold, and between them, in a
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: traverse form, ran another beam, to the lower side of
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 1: which was affixed a sharp instrument in the form of
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: a chopping knife with a large quantity of lead on
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: the upper part. The criminal put his neck between the
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: two side beams, and the cross beam, being drawn by
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: a pulley, was suffered to fall down and the head
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 1: was severed from the body in a moment end quote.
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: The Earl of Morton, Regent of Scotland, returning from the
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 1: court of Queen Elizabeth, in the year fifteen seventy four,
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: saw this machine at Halifax, and had a model taken
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: of it, with a view to the execution of such
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 1: of the Scottish nabs nobility as should oppose his measures.
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: But it happened that his lordship was the first who
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: suffered by this mode of execution, whence it was called
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: the Maiden. After this, many persons of rank in Scotland
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: were executed by this machine, but mister Hamilton, of whom
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: we are now writing, was the last who yielded his
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: life in this manner, and the instrument of death is
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: now kept in a room adjacent to the Council Chamber
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: in Edinburgh. After mister Hamilton received sentence of death, his
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 1: friends made great interest to procure a pardon, but their
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: endeavors proving ineffectual. He suffered death by the mode above
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: mentioned on the thirtieth of June seventeen sixteen, at the
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: place of execution. He owned that he had killed Arkell,
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: but presumed to think he was justified on the principle
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: of self defense. Mister Hamilton's case will teach us to
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: reflect on the sad consequences of keeping bad company and
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 1: an attachment to gaming. But for these vices he might
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 1: have lived happy in himself and a credit to the
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: worthy family from which he was descended. The youth who
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 1: will devote those hours to the gaming table which he
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 1: ought to employ in the honest advancement of his fortune,
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: can expect only to be reduced to beggary at the best.
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: But in a thousand instances as well as the present,
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: the consequences have been much more fatal. Hence, let young
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 1: gentlemen learn to shun the gaming table as they would pestilence,
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 1: to proceed in the plain path of honor and integrity,
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: and to know that there can be no true happiness
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: in a departure from the line of virtue. Narrative of
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: the case of mister Edward Bird, who is executed for murder.
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: Mister Bird was born at Windsor and Berkshire and descended
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: of respectable parents who have, being first sent him to
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: Westminster school then removed him to Eton College. When he
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 1: had finished his studies, he was sent to make the
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: tour of France and Italy, and honor's return to England
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 1: was honored with the commission of a lieutenant in a
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 1: regiment of horse. Before he had been long in the army,
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: he began to associate with abandoned company of both sexes,
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: which finally led to the commission of the crime which
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: cost him his life. On the tenth of January seventeen nineteen,
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 1: he was indicted at the Old Bailey for the murder
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 1: of Samuel Loxton. It appeared on his trial that he
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: had taken a woman of the town to a bagniot
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: in Silver Street, where Loxton was waiter. Early in the morning.
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: He ordered a bath to be got ready, but Loxton,
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: being busy, sent another waiter, at whom Bird, in a
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: fit of passion, made several passes with his sword, which
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: he avoided by holding the door in his hand, but
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: the prisoner ran after him, threw him downstairs, and broke
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: some of his ribs. On this the master and mistress
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: of the house, Ann Lockston, went into the room and
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: attempted to appease him, but Bird enraged that the bath
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: had not been prepared the moment he ordered it, seized
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: his sword which lay by the bedside, and stabbing Lockston.
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 1: He fell backwards and died immediately, on which the offender
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: was taken into custody and committed to Newgate. He was
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 1: to have been tried in October, but pleading that he
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: was not ready with his defense, the trial was put
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: off to December and then till January, on his physician
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: making affidavit that he was too ill to be removed
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: from his chamber. Being convicted on the clearest evidence, he
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: received sentence of death, but great interest being made in
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: his behalf, he was reprieved, and it was thought he
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: would have been pardoned on condition of transportation, but for
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: the intervention of the following, Sir, circumstance. The friends of Loxton,
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 1: hearing that a reprieve was granted, advised his widow to
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: lodge an appeal at the bar of the Court of
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 1: King's Bench, and she went thither with some friends to
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 1: give security for that purpose. But the relations of Bird,
• 2:27:17
  Speaker 1: hearing what was intended, were ready in court with witnesses
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: to depose that this was the second wife of Loxton.
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 1: The first still living, this being the fact the court
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: refused to admit the appeal as the second could not
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: be a lawful wife. This affair occasioned so much clamor
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: that Bird was ordered for execution on Monday, the twenty
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: third of February. On the night preceding which he took
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: a dose of poison, but that not operating as he
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: had expected, he stabbed himself in several places. Yet, however,
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: he lived till the morning when he was taken to
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: Tyburn in a morning coach attended by his mother and
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 1: the Order of Newgate. As he had paid little attention
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: to the instructions of the ordinary while under confinement, so
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 1: he seemed equally indifferent to his advice in the last
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: moments of his life. Being indulged to stay an hour
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: in the coach with his mother, he was put into
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: the cart, where he asked for a glass of wine,
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: but being told that it could not be had, he
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: begged a pinch of snuff, which he took with apparent unconcern,
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: wishing health to those who stood near him. He then
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: rehearsed the apostles creed, and being tied up, was launched
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 1: into eternity on the above mentioned twenty third of February
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 1: seventeen nineteen. He was executed in his twenty seventh year
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 1: of age. He declined making any speech, but delivered the
• 2:28:48
  Speaker 1: following paper to his friends the day before his execution.
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 1: It will be expected that I should say something at
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 1: this time as to the fact I am going to suffer.
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 1: For I do not pretend to say I did not
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: kill the deceased, but humbly conceive that both the laws
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 1: of God and man will justify self defense, which I
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 1: call God to witness in whose arms of mercy I
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: am now going to throw myself. Unhappy is the gentleman
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 1: who falls into such hands. For there was not one
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 1: evidence for the King that was not manifestly perjured, as
• 2:29:29
  Speaker 1: I have faithfully set forth in my printed case, with
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 1: all the justice of a person expecting nothing less than
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: death was capable of. And it is also as evident
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: that the proper evidences on my side were never called.
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: I wish I could persuade myself that mismanagement did not
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 1: proceed from the infidelity of my attorney employed in my trial,
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: for it appears but too evident that he never made
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: one regular step toward my interest and I wish I
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 1: could averir that he did not arm my enemies against me.
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 1: After all this, his Majesty, in his great wisdom, thought
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 1: fit to grant me a reprieve and order me for transportation.
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 1: But the restless malice of my enemies would not fix. Here.
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: The pretended widow of deceased lodges an appeal against me.
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: How she had a right, so to do I leave
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 1: those gentlemen learned in the law to determine. Yet this,
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 1: with her fallacious petition, found entrance to the royal fountain,
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 1: and turned that former stream of mercy from me, causing
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 1: his Majesty to recede from his first degree of mercy
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: and order my execution, under which sentence I still, with
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: all humility, submit another reflection, I am credibly informed, is
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: cast upon me in order to make my load the greater,
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 1: which is that I was frequently visited during my confinement
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: and ever since my conviction by lewd and infamous women.
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 1: I cannot say that I have not been visited by
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 1: diverse women, but do not know them to be such.
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 1: Some of them were relations, and others persons who had
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: business with me relating to my unhappy circumstances. What will
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 1: not malice invent. There is one thing more which I
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 1: omitted in my printed case, relating to my adversary's evidence
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: disposing that the deceased Locksain fell without the door, which
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: I declare solemnly is utterly false. For what was done
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 1: was in the room. I was not off from my
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: bed when the accident happened, and when he dropped, he
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 1: fell backwards upon the bed. I might take notice of
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: many more false aspersions, but will omit them, having I
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: thank my God forgiven them all. In the next place,
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: it will be expected that I say something of my religion.
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 1: I declare that I die a Protestant and of the
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: Communion of the Church of England, whose doctrines teach me
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 1: to forgive my enemies, which sincerely I do, humbly, begging
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 1: at the same time that all those who, through inadvertency,
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 1: heat of blood, or any juvenile folly I have offended,
• 2:32:34
  Speaker 1: will do the same by me. As for the manifold
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: reflections cast upon me since my confinement, the pretended widow's
• 2:32:42
  Speaker 1: violent prosecution, the farriers notoriously false affidavit, and all the
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 1: other offenses committed against me, I heartily forgive them, and
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: to conclude, I wish all gentlemen would only weigh the
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 1: fatal cause of my unhappy exit, and avoid all such
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 1: houses where the scene of this misfortune was first laid.
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: Let me be an example to them to avoid those
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: rocks I have split upon, that they may, with less
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 1: difficulty than I have found it be able to compose
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: their thoughts, which I, thank God I have done through
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 1: the assistance of his divine spirit, and sink into a
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 1: willing resignation to his divine will. Edward Bird, this unfortunate
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 1: youth seems to have fallen sacrificed to the irregularity and
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: violence of his own passions, to the pride of his
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: heart and his love of lawless pleasure. Hence, let the
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 1: youth who read this be taught to walk in the
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 1: plain paths of sobriety and discretion, neither turning aside to
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 1: the right hand nor to the left. His taking poison
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: and stabbing himself to defeat the execution of the law
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 1: is a strong proof of that pride heart we have mentioned.
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 1: He could be guilty of a crime deserving of the
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: utmost ignomy, but dreaded to sustain it. Humility, then, is
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 1: another doctrine to be learnt from the fate of this man.
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: The situation of Bird's mother in her attending him to
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 1: Tyburn must have been dreadful beyond all expression. Mister Bird
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: had been well educated and ought to have made a
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 1: different return to the care of his parents. Women in general, however,
• 2:34:31
  Speaker 1: should consider that it is by a religious education that
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 1: the mind of the child is most likely to be
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: guarded from the contamination of vice. The sacred Maxim will
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: hold good in most instances. Train up a child in
• 2:34:48
  Speaker 1: the way he should go, and when he is old,
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 1: he will not depart. Therefrom singular case of Catherine Jones,
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: who is tried for bigamy and acquittedin Jones was indicted
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 1: at the Old Bailey on the fifth of September seventeen
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 1: nineteen for marrying Constantine Boone during the life of her
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: former husband John Rowland. Proof was made that she was
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 1: married to Roland in the year seventeen thirteen at a
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 1: house in the Mint, southok and that six years afterwards,
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: while her husband was abroad, she was again married in
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: the same house to Constantine Boone, but Roland, soon returning
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 1: to England, caused his wife to be indicted for that crime.
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: The prisoner did not hesitate to acknowledge the double marriage,
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: but insisted that the latter was illegal, as Boone was
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 1: an harmaraphrodite and had been shown as such at Suthock
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: and Bartholomew's fairs and at other places. To prove this,
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: a person swore that he knew Boone when a child,
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: and that his or her mother dressed it in girls
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: apparel and caused it to be instructed in needlework till
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: it had attained the age of twelve years, when it
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: turned man and went to see These last words were
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: those of the deposition, and the fact was confirmed by Boone,
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: who appeared in court acknowledged being hermaphrodite and having been
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 1: publicly shown in that character. Other witnesses deposed that the
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 1: female sex prevailed over that of the male in the
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 1: party in question on which the jury acquitted the prisoner.
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 1: It is impossible to describe how much this affair was
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 1: subject to public conversation at and long after the time
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 1: that had happened, and it would be idle to make
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 1: any serious remarks on it. We can only express our
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: astonishment that a hermaphrodite should think of such a glaring
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 1: absurdity as taking a wife account of William Spiggott and
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 1: time Thomas Phillips, who were hanged for robbing on the Highway.
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 1: At the sessions held at the Old Bailey in the
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 1: month of January seventeen twenty, William Spigott and Thomas Phillips
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 1: were indicted for committing several robberies on the highway, but
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: they refused to plead unless the effects taken from them
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: when they were apprehended were returned. But this being directly
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 1: contrary to an Act of fourth and fifth year of
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 1: King William and Queen Mary entitled quote an Act for
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 1: Encouraging the Apprehending of Higherymen unquote, the Court informed them
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 1: that their demand could not be complied with. Still, however,
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 1: they refused to plead, and no argument could convince them
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: of the absurdity of such an obstinate procedure, on which
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 1: the Court ordered that the judgment ordained by law in
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 1: such cases should be read, which is to the following
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 1: purpose quote, that the prisoners should be sent to the
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 1: prison from whence he came, and be put into a
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 1: mean room, stopped from the light, and shall there be
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 1: laid on the bare ground without any litter, straw, or
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: other covering, and without any garment about him, except something
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: to hide his privy members. He shall lie upon his back.
• 2:38:20
  Speaker 1: His head shall be covered, and his feet shall be bare.
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 1: One of his arms shall be drawn with a cord
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 1: to one side of the room, and the other arm
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 1: to the other side, and his leg shall be served
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 1: in a like manner. Then there shall be laid upon
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 1: his body as much iron or stone as he can bear,
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 1: and more. And the first day after he shall have
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 1: three morsels of barley bread without any drink, And the
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: second day he shall be allowed to drink as much
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 1: as he can at three times of the water that
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: is next to the prison door, except running water, without
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 1: any bread. And this shall be his diet till he dies,
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 1: and he against whom this judgment shall be given forfeit
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: all his goods to the king. By an act passed
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy two, it is determined that persons refusing
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 1: to plead shall be deemed guilty as if convicted by
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: a jury, an alteration that does honor to modern times.
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: The reading of his sentence producing no effect, they were
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: ordered back to Newgate there to be pressed to death.
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 1: But when they came into the press room. Philips begged
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 1: to be taken back to plead, a favor that was granted,
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 1: though it might have been denied to him. But Spiggott
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 1: was put under the press, where he continued half an
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 1: hour with three hundred fifty pounds weight on his body.
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 1: But on the addition of fifty pounds more he likewise
• 2:39:56
  Speaker 1: begged to plead. In consequence hereof they were brought back
• 2:40:01
  Speaker 1: and again indicted. When the evidence being clear and positive
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 1: against them, they were convicted, received sentence of death, and
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: were executed to Tyburn on the eighth of February seventeen
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 1: twenty three. William Spiggott was about twenty seven years of
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 1: age when he suffered. Was a native of Hereford, but
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: coming to London, he apprenticed himself to a cabinet maker.
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 1: He was a married man and had three children living
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 1: at the time of his fatal exit. He and Phillips
• 2:40:30
  Speaker 1: were hanged for robbing Charles Sibauld on Finchley Common, and
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 1: were convicted principally on the evidence of Joseph Lindsay, a
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 1: clergyman of abandoned character, who had been of their party.
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 1: One Burroughs, a lunatic who had escaped from Bedlam, was
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 1: likewise concerned with them, but afterwards publicly spoke of the
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: affair which occasioned their being taken into custody, and when
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: it was known that Burroughs was disordered in his mind,
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 1: he was sent back to Bedlam. Thomas Phillips, aged thirty
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 1: three years, was a native of Bristol, totally uneducated and
• 2:41:08
  Speaker 1: being sent to see when very young. He served under
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 1: Lord Torrington when he attacked and took the Spanish fleet
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: in the Mediterranean Sea near the harbor of Cadiz. Phillips,
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: returning to England, became acquainted with Spigot and Lindsay, in
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 1: company with whom he committed a great number of robberies
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 1: on the highway. Phillips once boasted he and Spigot robbed
• 2:41:33
  Speaker 1: above a hundred passengers one night, whom they obliged to
• 2:41:36
  Speaker 1: come out of different wagons, and having bound them, placed
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: them by each other on the side of the road.
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 1: But this story is too absurd to be believed. While
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 1: under sentence of death, Phillips behaved in the most hardened
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: and abandoned manner. He paid no regard to anything that
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 1: the minister said to him and swore and sung songs,
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 1: while the other prisoners were engaged in acts of devotion.
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 1: And afterwards, toward the close of his life, when his
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 1: companions became more serious, he grew still more wicked. And
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 1: yet when at the place of execution, he said he
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 1: did not fare to die, for he was in no
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 1: doubt of going to heaven. Narrative of the singular case
• 2:42:20
  Speaker 1: of John meph who was hanged for returning from transportation.
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 1: This offender had been taken into custody for committing roberty
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 1: near London, but as it happened at a time within
• 2:42:32
  Speaker 1: the limits of an Act of grace passed in the
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 1: reign of King George the First, it was not thought
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 1: necessary to indict him, and he would have been discharged
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: without further ceremony. But it appeared that he had been
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 1: transported for another crime and returned before the expiration of
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 1: his time. Wherefore he was indicted for this offense, and
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 1: on an act then lately made for the effectual transportation
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 1: of felons, and his person being identified, he was found guilt,
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: received sentence of death, and was executed at Tyburn on
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: the eleventh of September seventeen twenty one. The following is
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: an account which he wrote between his condemnation and the
• 2:43:12
  Speaker 1: day of his execution. I was born in London of
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 1: French parents who had fled hither for protection when the
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 1: French Protestants were driven out of France by Louis the fourteenth.
• 2:43:24
  Speaker 1: I was put apprentice to a weaver. My father, having
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 1: continued about twelve years in England, went with the rest
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: of the family to Holland. I served my time faithfully
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 1: and with the approbation of my master. Soon after I
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 1: came to work for myself. I married, but my business
• 2:43:42
  Speaker 1: not being sufficient to maintain myself, my wife and children,
• 2:43:46
  Speaker 1: I was willing to try what I could at thieving.
• 2:43:50
  Speaker 1: I followed this practice till I was apprehended, tried, and
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: condemned for house breaking. But as I was going to
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 1: the place of execution, the hangman was arrested and I
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: was brought back to Newgate. It was thought that this
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: was my contrivance to put a stop to public justice,
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 1: but I was so far from being any ways concerned
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 1: in it that I knew nothing of it till it
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: was done. This might have been a happy turn for
• 2:44:16
  Speaker 1: me if I had made a right use of it,
• 2:44:19
  Speaker 1: for my sentence of death was changed for that of transportation.
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 1: And indeed I took up a solemn resolution to lead
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 1: an honest and regular course of life, and to resist
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 1: all the persuasions of my comrades to the contrary. But
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 1: this resolution continued but a short time after the fear
• 2:44:38
  Speaker 1: of death was vanished. I believe, however, that if I
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 1: had been safe landed in America, my ruin might have
• 2:44:46
  Speaker 1: been prevented. But the ship which carried me and other
• 2:44:49
  Speaker 1: convicts was taken by pirates. They would have persuaded me
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 1: and some of the others to sign a paper in
• 2:44:55
  Speaker 1: order to become pirates, but we refusing, they put me
• 2:44:59
  Speaker 1: and a more ashore on a desert island, uninhabited, where
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 1: we must have perished with hunger if by good fortune
• 2:45:10
  Speaker 1: an Indian canoe had not arrived there. We waited till
• 2:45:14
  Speaker 1: the Indians were gone up the island, and then getting
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 1: into the vessel, we sailed from one small island to
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 1: another till we reached the coast of America. Not choosing
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 1: to settle in any of the plantations there, but preferring
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 1: the life of a sailor, I shipped myself on board
• 2:45:32
  Speaker 1: a vessel that carried merchandise from Virginia and South Carolina
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 1: to Barbadoes, Jamaica and other of His Majesty's islands, and
• 2:45:40
  Speaker 1: thus I lived a considerable time, but at last, being
• 2:45:44
  Speaker 1: over desirous to see how my wife and children fared
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 1: in England, I was resolved to return at all adventures.
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 1: Upon my arrival here, I quickly fell into my former
• 2:45:55
  Speaker 1: wicked practices, and it was not long before I was
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 1: committed to Newgate on suspicion of robbing a person near London.
• 2:46:02
  Speaker 1: But by the assistance of a certain bricklayer, I broke
• 2:46:05
  Speaker 1: out of prison and went to Hatfield, where I lay
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 1: concealed for some time, but at last was discovered and
• 2:46:12
  Speaker 1: taken again by the same bricklayer who had procured my escape.
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 1: Some evil genius attended me. I was certainly infatuated, or
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 1: I had never continued in a place where I was
• 2:46:25
  Speaker 1: so likely to be discovered. My father is now our
• 2:46:28
  Speaker 1: gardener in Amsterdam. Tis in addition to my misfortune that
• 2:46:33
  Speaker 1: I cannot see him and my mother before I die.
• 2:46:36
  Speaker 1: But I hope when he hears of my unhappy end,
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 1: he will keep my children by my first wife from
• 2:46:41
  Speaker 1: starving my present wife is able by her industry to
• 2:46:46
  Speaker 1: bring up her own offspring. For she has been an honest,
• 2:46:50
  Speaker 1: careful woman during the nine months I have been married
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 1: to her, and has often pressed me to go over
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 1: to Ireland and lead a regular and sober life. It
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 1: had well for me if I had taken her advice.
• 2:47:03
  Speaker 1: I have had enough of this restless and tumultuous world,
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 1: and hope I am now going to a better I
• 2:47:10
  Speaker 1: am very easy in resigned to the will of Providence,
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 1: not doubting I have made my peace with Heaven. I
• 2:47:17
  Speaker 1: thank God that I have not been molested by my
• 2:47:20
  Speaker 1: fellow prisoners, with the least cursing or swearing in the
• 2:47:24
  Speaker 1: condemned hold, but having had an opportunity of employing every
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 1: moment of my time in preparing for a future state.
• 2:47:34
  Speaker 1: The case of this malefactor is very extraordinary, and perhaps
• 2:47:38
  Speaker 1: may never be equaled by that of any other. The
• 2:47:42
  Speaker 1: narrow escape he had experienced from the gallows ought to
• 2:47:45
  Speaker 1: have taught him more wisdom than to have returned from
• 2:47:48
  Speaker 1: transportation before the expiration of his time. But one would
• 2:47:52
  Speaker 1: think there is a fatality attending the conduct of some
• 2:47:55
  Speaker 1: men who seem resolutely bent on their own destruction. One truth, however,
• 2:48:01
  Speaker 1: is certain. It is easy, by a steady adherence to
• 2:48:04
  Speaker 1: the rules of virtue, to shun that ignominious fate which
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: is the consequence of the breach of the laws of
• 2:48:11
  Speaker 1: God and our country. The singular case of Nathaniel Hawes,
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 1: who was hanged for a robbery. The subject of this
• 2:48:20
  Speaker 1: narrative was a native of Norfolk, in which county he
• 2:48:23
  Speaker 1: was born in the year seventeen o one. Hawes's father
• 2:48:27
  Speaker 1: was a grazier in ample circumstances, but dying while the
• 2:48:31
  Speaker 1: son was an infant. A relation in Hertfordshire took care
• 2:48:34
  Speaker 1: of his education at a proper age. He was apprenticed
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 1: to an impulsterer in London, but becoming connected with people
• 2:48:42
  Speaker 1: of bad character and thus acquiring an early habit of vice,
• 2:48:47
  Speaker 1: he robbed his master when he had served only two
• 2:48:50
  Speaker 1: years of his time, for which he was tried at
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: the Old Bailey, and being convicted of stealing to the
• 2:48:55
  Speaker 1: amount of thirty nine shillings, he was sentenced to seven
• 2:48:58
  Speaker 1: years transportation, But the sentence thus awarded against Hawes was
• 2:49:04
  Speaker 1: not carried into execution owing to the following circumstance. A
• 2:49:09
  Speaker 1: man named Phillips had encouraged the unhappy youth in his
• 2:49:12
  Speaker 1: depredations by purchasing at a very low weight such goods
• 2:49:16
  Speaker 1: as he stole from his master. But when Hawes was
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 1: taken into custody, he gave information of this affair, in
• 2:49:23
  Speaker 1: consequence of which a search warrant was procured, and many
• 2:49:27
  Speaker 1: effects belonging to Hawes's master were found in Phillips's possession.
• 2:49:32
  Speaker 1: Hereupon application was made to the King, and a free
• 2:49:36
  Speaker 1: pardon was granted to Hawes, whereby he was rendered a
• 2:49:39
  Speaker 1: competent evidence against Phillips, who was tried for receiving stolen
• 2:49:43
  Speaker 1: goods and transported for fourteen years. We are sorry to
• 2:49:48
  Speaker 1: relate the sequel of this tale. Hawes, during his confinement
• 2:49:52
  Speaker 1: in Newgate, had made such bad connections as greatly contributed
• 2:49:56
  Speaker 1: to the contamination of his morals, and soon after his
• 2:49:59
  Speaker 1: life release, he connected himself with the set of fellows
• 2:50:03
  Speaker 1: who acted under the direction of Jonathan Wilde, and having
• 2:50:07
  Speaker 1: made a particular acquaintance with one John James, they joined
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 1: in the commission of a number of robberies. After an
• 2:50:15
  Speaker 1: uncommon share of success, for some days they quarreled on
• 2:50:18
  Speaker 1: the division of the booty and in consequence of which
• 2:50:22
  Speaker 1: each acted on his own account. Some little time after
• 2:50:26
  Speaker 1: they had thus separated, Hawes, being apprehensive that James would
• 2:50:30
  Speaker 1: impeach him, applied to Jonathan Wilde and informed against his
• 2:50:34
  Speaker 1: old acquaintance, on which James was taken into custody, tried, convicted,
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 1: and executed by an Act of fourth and fifth Wiim
• 2:50:44
  Speaker 1: and Mary for the more effectual conviction of highwaymen. The
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 1: evidence of accomplices is allowed, but the evidence cannot claim
• 2:50:54
  Speaker 1: his liberty unless two or more of his accomplices are convicted,
• 2:50:58
  Speaker 1: but may be imprisoned during the pleasure of the court. So,
• 2:51:03
  Speaker 1: notwithstanding this conviction, the court sentenced Hawes to be imprisoned
• 2:51:07
  Speaker 1: in new Prison, and that jail was preferred to Newgate
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 1: because the prisoners in the latter had threatened to murder
• 2:51:15
  Speaker 1: Hawes for being an evidence against James. Soon after this commitment,
• 2:51:20
  Speaker 1: Hawes and another fellow made their escape, and, entering into partnership,
• 2:51:25
  Speaker 1: committed a variety of robberies, particularly in the road between
• 2:51:28
  Speaker 1: Hackney and Shoreditch. This connection, like the former, lasted but
• 2:51:33
  Speaker 1: a short time. A dispute on dividing their ill gotten
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 1: gains occasioned to separation. Soon after this dissolution of the partnership,
• 2:51:42
  Speaker 1: Hawes went alone to Finchley Common, where, meeting a gentleman
• 2:51:45
  Speaker 1: riding to town, he presented a pistol to his breast
• 2:51:48
  Speaker 1: and commanded him instantly to dismount, that he might search
• 2:51:52
  Speaker 1: him for his money. The gentleman offered him four shillings,
• 2:51:56
  Speaker 1: on which Hawes wore the most horrid oaths and threatened
• 2:52:00
  Speaker 1: instant death if he did not immediately submit. The gentleman
• 2:52:04
  Speaker 1: quitted his horse, and in that same moment seized the pistol,
• 2:52:08
  Speaker 1: which he snatched from the hand of the robber, and
• 2:52:10
  Speaker 1: presenting it to him, told him to expect death if
• 2:52:14
  Speaker 1: he did not surrender himself. Hawes, who was now as
• 2:52:18
  Speaker 1: terrified as he had been insolent, made no opposition, and
• 2:52:23
  Speaker 1: the driver of a cart coming up just at that juncture.
• 2:52:27
  Speaker 1: He was easily made prisoner, conveyed to London, and committed
• 2:52:31
  Speaker 1: to Newgate. When the session came on and he was
• 2:52:34
  Speaker 1: brought to the bar, he refused to plead to the indictment,
• 2:52:38
  Speaker 1: alleging the following reason for so doing visit that he
• 2:52:43
  Speaker 1: would die as he had lived like a gentleman. Quote
• 2:52:48
  Speaker 1: the people he said, who apprehended me seized a suit
• 2:52:52
  Speaker 1: of fine clothes, which I intend to have gone to
• 2:52:55
  Speaker 1: the gallows in and unless they are returned, I will
• 2:52:59
  Speaker 1: not plead, for no one shall say that I was
• 2:53:02
  Speaker 1: hanged in a dirty shirt and a ragged coat unquote.
• 2:53:07
  Speaker 1: On this he was told what would be the consequences
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: of his contempt of legal authority, but this making no
• 2:53:13
  Speaker 1: impression on him, sentence was pronounced that he should be
• 2:53:16
  Speaker 1: pressed to death, whereupon he was taken from the court, and,
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 1: being laid on his back, sustained a load of two
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: hundred fifty pounds weight for about seven minutes, but unable
• 2:53:29
  Speaker 1: any longer to bear the pain, he entreated that he
• 2:53:32
  Speaker 1: might be conducted back to the court, which, being complied with,
• 2:53:36
  Speaker 1: he pleaded not guilty, but the evidence against him being complete,
• 2:53:40
  Speaker 1: he was convicted and sentenced to die. After conviction, his
• 2:53:45
  Speaker 1: behavior was very improper for one in his situation. He
• 2:53:50
  Speaker 1: told the other capital convicts that he would die like
• 2:53:53
  Speaker 1: a hero, and behaved in the same thoughtless way till
• 2:53:56
  Speaker 1: the arrival of the warrant for his execution, after which
• 2:54:00
  Speaker 1: his conduct was not altogether scandalous. He owned to the
• 2:54:04
  Speaker 1: Ordinary of Newgate that he was induced to refuse to
• 2:54:07
  Speaker 1: plead to his indictment that the other prisoners might deem
• 2:54:11
  Speaker 1: him a man of honor and not for the idle
• 2:54:14
  Speaker 1: vanity of being hanged in fine clothes. He acknowledged many
• 2:54:18
  Speaker 1: robberies which he had committed, but charged Jonathan Wilde as
• 2:54:22
  Speaker 1: being the principal author of his ruin by purchasing the
• 2:54:25
  Speaker 1: stolen goods. He likewise owned that he had been base
• 2:54:29
  Speaker 1: enough to inform against persons who were innocent, particularly a
• 2:54:32
  Speaker 1: gentleman's servant who was then in custody. But he did
• 2:54:36
  Speaker 1: not discover any signs of contrition for this or any
• 2:54:39
  Speaker 1: other of his offenses. He was executed at Tyburn on
• 2:54:44
  Speaker 1: the twenty second of December seventeen twenty one, the end
• 2:54:49
  Speaker 1: of Part six particulars respecting a Arundel Cook Esquire and
• 2:54:54
  Speaker 1: John Woodburn, who were hanged for cutting and maiming mister Crisp.
• 2:55:01
  Speaker 1: These people suffered on what is called the Coventry Act,
• 2:55:04
  Speaker 1: to understand which it will be necessary to recite a
• 2:55:08
  Speaker 1: few particulars. The Coventry Act took its rise from the
• 2:55:13
  Speaker 1: following circumstance. Sir John Coventry, in the reign of Charles
• 2:55:17
  Speaker 1: the second, having opposed the measures of the Court in
• 2:55:21
  Speaker 1: the House of Commons, in revenge hereof some armed villains
• 2:55:25
  Speaker 1: attacked him one night in Covent Garden, split his nose
• 2:55:29
  Speaker 1: and cut off his lips. Shocked by so barbarous a deed,
• 2:55:33
  Speaker 1: the members of both houses of Parliament passed an Act
• 2:55:37
  Speaker 1: in a few days by which it was ordered that
• 2:55:40
  Speaker 1: unlawful cutting out or disabling the tongue of malice a forethought,
• 2:55:47
  Speaker 1: or by lying in wait putting out an eye, slitting
• 2:55:51
  Speaker 1: the nose or lip, or cutting off or disabling any
• 2:55:54
  Speaker 1: limb or member of any person, with intent to maim
• 2:55:58
  Speaker 1: or disfigure, shall be felony without benefit of clergy. En
• 2:56:06
  Speaker 1: By this law, it was likewise enacted that accessories shall
• 2:56:11
  Speaker 1: be deemed principles. The parties whose crimes we are about
• 2:56:17
  Speaker 1: to relate are the first who are executed on this act.
• 2:56:22
  Speaker 1: Mister Cook was born near Barry Saint Edmunds in the
• 2:56:26
  Speaker 1: County of Suffolk. His father was a man of fortune,
• 2:56:30
  Speaker 1: and when he had given him an university education, he
• 2:56:33
  Speaker 1: sent him to the temple to study the law, after
• 2:56:36
  Speaker 1: which he was called to the bar and acted as
• 2:56:39
  Speaker 1: a counselor After some time he married a young lady,
• 2:56:43
  Speaker 1: the sister of mister Crisp, who lived in the neighborhood
• 2:56:47
  Speaker 1: of his native place. Mister Crisp, being a gentleman of
• 2:56:51
  Speaker 1: large property but a bad state of health, made his
• 2:56:56
  Speaker 1: will in favor of Cook, subject only to a jointure
• 2:57:00
  Speaker 1: for his sister's use, which was likewise to become the
• 2:57:03
  Speaker 1: property of the councilor in case the lady died before
• 2:57:07
  Speaker 1: her husband. It was not long after mister Crisp had
• 2:57:12
  Speaker 1: made his will before he recovered his health in some degree,
• 2:57:17
  Speaker 1: but he continued an infirm man, though he lived a
• 2:57:20
  Speaker 1: number of years. This partial recovery gave great uneasiness to Cook, who,
• 2:57:27
  Speaker 1: wishing to possess the estate, was anxious for the death
• 2:57:30
  Speaker 1: of his brother in law, though as he had ard
• 2:57:33
  Speaker 1: enough to conceal his sentiments, they appeared to live on
• 2:57:37
  Speaker 1: tolerable terms. However, he at length grew so impatient that
• 2:57:42
  Speaker 1: he could not come into possession by death of mister Crisp,
• 2:57:46
  Speaker 1: that he resolved to remove him by murder, and for
• 2:57:50
  Speaker 1: that purpose engaged John Woodburn, a laboring man who had
• 2:57:54
  Speaker 1: six children, to assist him in the execution of this
• 2:57:58
  Speaker 1: diabolical plan. For this piece of service, he promised to
• 2:58:03
  Speaker 1: give Woodburn a hundred pounds. The man was unwilling to
• 2:58:07
  Speaker 1: be concerned in this execrable business, but reflections on his
• 2:58:13
  Speaker 1: poverty and the largeness of his family tempted him to
• 2:58:16
  Speaker 1: comply on this. It was agreed that the murder should
• 2:58:20
  Speaker 1: be perpetrated on Christmas evening, and as mister Crisp was
• 2:58:25
  Speaker 1: to dine with mister Cook on that day, and the
• 2:58:28
  Speaker 1: churchyard lay between one house and the other, Woodburn was
• 2:58:33
  Speaker 1: to wait concealed behind one of the tombstones till Cook
• 2:58:37
  Speaker 1: gave him the signal for the attack, which was to
• 2:58:40
  Speaker 1: be allowed whistle Crisp came to his appointment and dined
• 2:58:46
  Speaker 1: and drank tea with his brother in law, but declining
• 2:58:49
  Speaker 1: to stay for supper. He left the house about nine
• 2:58:52
  Speaker 1: o'clock and was almost immediately followed into the churchyard by Cook, who,
• 2:58:58
  Speaker 1: giving the agreed signal to Woodburn. The latter quitted his
• 2:59:01
  Speaker 1: place of retreat, knocked down the unhappy man, and cut
• 2:59:05
  Speaker 1: and maimed him in a terrible manner in which he
• 2:59:09
  Speaker 1: was abetted by the councilor, imagining that they had despatched
• 2:59:13
  Speaker 1: him mister Cook rewarded Woodburn with a few shillings and
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 1: instantly went home. But he had not been arrived more
• 2:59:21
  Speaker 1: than a quarter of an hour before Crisp knocked at
• 2:59:24
  Speaker 1: the door and entered. Covered with wounds and almost dead
• 2:59:28
  Speaker 1: through loss of blood. He was unable to speak, but
• 2:59:31
  Speaker 1: by his looks seemed to accuse Cook with the intent
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 1: of murder, and was then put to bed and his
• 2:59:38
  Speaker 1: wounds dressed by a surgeon. At the end of about
• 2:59:42
  Speaker 1: a week, he was so much mended as to be
• 2:59:45
  Speaker 1: removed to his own house. He had no doubt but
• 2:59:48
  Speaker 1: Cook was one of the persons who had assaulted him,
• 2:59:51
  Speaker 1: but had resolved not to speak of the affair till
• 2:59:54
  Speaker 1: future circumstances made it necessary for him to inform a
• 2:59:58
  Speaker 1: court of justice of what had happened. The intended assassination
• 3:00:03
  Speaker 1: having greatly engaged the attention of the neighbors, Woodburn was
• 3:00:07
  Speaker 1: apprehended on suspicion. When making a discovery of the whole truth,
• 3:00:12
  Speaker 1: Cook was also taken into custody. They were brought to
• 3:00:16
  Speaker 1: their trials at the next assizes, when both of them
• 3:00:19
  Speaker 1: were convicted. When they were called up to receive sentence
• 3:00:23
  Speaker 1: of death, Cook desired to be heard, and the court
• 3:00:27
  Speaker 1: complying with his request. He urged that judgment could not
• 3:00:33
  Speaker 1: pass on the verdict because the Act of Parliament simply
• 3:00:37
  Speaker 1: mentions an intention to maim or to face, whereas he
• 3:00:42
  Speaker 1: was firmly resolved to have committed murder end quote. He
• 3:00:46
  Speaker 1: quoted several law cases in favor of the arguments he
• 3:00:50
  Speaker 1: had advanced, and hoped that judgment might be respited till
• 3:00:54
  Speaker 1: the opinion of the twelve judges could be taken on
• 3:00:57
  Speaker 1: the cause. The Council for the Crown u opposed the
• 3:01:00
  Speaker 1: arguments of mister Cook, insisted that the crime came within
• 3:01:04
  Speaker 1: the meaning of the law, and hoped that judgment would
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: pass against the prisoners. Lord Chief Justice King, who presided
• 3:01:11
  Speaker 1: on this occasion, declared that it could not admit the
• 3:01:15
  Speaker 1: force of mister Cook's plea consistent with his own oath
• 3:01:18
  Speaker 1: as a judge, for he said it would establish a
• 3:01:24
  Speaker 1: principle in the law inconsistent with the first dictates of
• 3:01:28
  Speaker 1: natural reason, as the greatest villain might, when convicted of
• 3:01:32
  Speaker 1: a smaller offense, plead that the judgment must be arrested
• 3:01:37
  Speaker 1: because he intended to commit a greater in the presence instance,
• 3:01:42
  Speaker 1: said he judgment cannot be arrested, as the intention is
• 3:01:47
  Speaker 1: naturally implied when the crime is actually committed. His lordship
• 3:01:52
  Speaker 1: said that Crisp was assassinated in the manner laid in
• 3:01:56
  Speaker 1: the indictment. It is therefore to be taken for granted
• 3:02:00
  Speaker 1: that the intention was to maim and deface. Wherefore the
• 3:02:04
  Speaker 1: court will proceed to give judgment, and accordingly sentence of
• 3:02:08
  Speaker 1: death was passed on the prisoners. After condemnation, Cook employed
• 3:02:14
  Speaker 1: his time principally in endeavors to procure a pardon, and
• 3:02:17
  Speaker 1: when he found his expectations failed him, he grew reserved
• 3:02:22
  Speaker 1: and would not admit even the visits of his friends.
• 3:02:25
  Speaker 1: On the contrary, Woodbourne was all penitence and contrition, sincerely
• 3:02:30
  Speaker 1: lamenting the crime he had been guilty of and the
• 3:02:33
  Speaker 1: miserable situation in which he left his poor children. A
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 1: short time before the day of execution, Cook wrote to
• 3:02:40
  Speaker 1: the sheriff requesting that he might be hanged in the
• 3:02:44
  Speaker 1: night to prevent his being exposed to the country people,
• 3:02:47
  Speaker 1: who were expected from all the adjacent towns and villages.
• 3:02:52
  Speaker 1: And in consequence hereof, he was hanged at four o'clock
• 3:02:56
  Speaker 1: in the morning and Woodburn was executed the afternoon of
• 3:02:59
  Speaker 1: the same day. The latter behaved with every sign of penitence,
• 3:03:05
  Speaker 1: but Cook's conduct was very unfeeling, and he absolutely refused
• 3:03:09
  Speaker 1: to confess his crime. These malefactors were executed at Bury
• 3:03:14
  Speaker 1: Saint Edmund's on the fifth of April seventeen twenty two.
• 3:03:19
  Speaker 1: Narrative of the remarkable actions of John Hawkins and George Simpson,
• 3:03:24
  Speaker 1: who were executed for robbing the Bristol mail and hung
• 3:03:27
  Speaker 1: in chains. As the crime for which these malefactors suffered
• 3:03:32
  Speaker 1: is very pernicious in its own nature, and their other
• 3:03:36
  Speaker 1: transactions made a great noise in the world at the
• 3:03:39
  Speaker 1: time they took place, we proposed to give a particular
• 3:03:43
  Speaker 1: account of them. John Hawkins was the son of a
• 3:03:46
  Speaker 1: poor farmer at Staines, who, not being able to afford
• 3:03:50
  Speaker 1: to educate him properly, he went into service of a gentleman,
• 3:03:54
  Speaker 1: which he soon quitted, and lived as a waiter at
• 3:03:57
  Speaker 1: the Red Lion at Brentford, But leaving this place he
• 3:04:01
  Speaker 1: again engaged as a gentleman's servant. After living in different families,
• 3:04:06
  Speaker 1: he became butler to Sir Denis Drury, and was distinguished
• 3:04:11
  Speaker 1: as a servant of very creditable appearance. Indeed, his person
• 3:04:16
  Speaker 1: was uncommonly graceful, and he was remarkably vain of it.
• 3:04:20
  Speaker 1: He used to frequent gaming tables two or three nights
• 3:04:23
  Speaker 1: in the week, a practice which led to that ruine
• 3:04:27
  Speaker 1: which finally befell him. About this time, Sir Denis had
• 3:04:31
  Speaker 1: been robbed of a considerable quantity of plate, and as
• 3:04:35
  Speaker 1: Hawkins's mode of life was very expensive, it was suspected
• 3:04:39
  Speaker 1: that he was the thief, for which reason he was
• 3:04:42
  Speaker 1: discharged without the advantage of a good character. Being thus
• 3:04:47
  Speaker 1: destitute of the means of subsistence, he had recourse to
• 3:04:51
  Speaker 1: the Highway, and his first expedition was to Hounslow Heath,
• 3:04:55
  Speaker 1: where he took eleven pounds from the passengers in a coach.
• 3:04:59
  Speaker 1: But such was his attachment to gaming that he repaired
• 3:05:02
  Speaker 1: directly to London, where he lost at all. He continued
• 3:05:06
  Speaker 1: to rob alone for some time, losing at the gaming
• 3:05:09
  Speaker 1: houses what he obtained at so much risk, and he
• 3:05:13
  Speaker 1: then engaged to rob with other highwaymen, but the same
• 3:05:17
  Speaker 1: fate still attended him. He lost by gaming what he
• 3:05:21
  Speaker 1: got by thieving, and was frequently so reduced as to
• 3:05:24
  Speaker 1: dine at an eating house, and then sneak off without
• 3:05:28
  Speaker 1: paying his reckoning several of Hawkins's old companions. Having met
• 3:05:33
  Speaker 1: their desserts at the gallows, he became acquainted with one Wilson,
• 3:05:38
  Speaker 1: a youth of good education who had been articled to
• 3:05:41
  Speaker 1: a solicitor in chancery, but had neglected his business through
• 3:05:45
  Speaker 1: an attachment to the gaming tables. Those associates, having committed
• 3:05:50
  Speaker 1: several robberies in conjunction, were tried for one of them,
• 3:05:55
  Speaker 1: but acquitted for want of evidence, though Wilson, in an
• 3:05:59
  Speaker 1: account published after Hawkins's condemnation, confesses they were guilty. Immediately
• 3:06:05
  Speaker 1: after this, Wilson went down to his mother, who lived
• 3:06:08
  Speaker 1: at Whitby in Yorkshire, and continued with her for about
• 3:06:12
  Speaker 1: a year, and then, coming to London, lived with the
• 3:06:15
  Speaker 1: gentlemen of the law, but having lost his money in gaming,
• 3:06:19
  Speaker 1: renewed his acquaintance with Hawkins, who was now concerned with
• 3:06:22
  Speaker 1: a new gang of villains. But one of these being apprehended,
• 3:06:26
  Speaker 1: impeached the rest, which soon dispersed the gang, but not
• 3:06:30
  Speaker 1: till some of them had made their exit at Tyburn,
• 3:06:34
  Speaker 1: on which Hawkins was obliged to conceal himself for a
• 3:06:37
  Speaker 1: considerable time, but at length he ventured to rob a
• 3:06:41
  Speaker 1: gentleman on Finchley Common and shot one of the servants
• 3:06:45
  Speaker 1: so that he died on the spot. His next attack
• 3:06:49
  Speaker 1: was on the Earl of Burlington and Lord Bruce in
• 3:06:52
  Speaker 1: Richmond Lane, from whom he took about twenty pounds, two
• 3:06:56
  Speaker 1: gold watches and a sapphire ring. For this ring, a
• 3:07:01
  Speaker 1: reward of one hundred pounds was offered to Jonathan Wilde,
• 3:07:05
  Speaker 1: but Hawkins sailed to Holland with it and there sold
• 3:07:08
  Speaker 1: it for forty pounds. Hawkins, returning to England, joined his companions,
• 3:07:14
  Speaker 1: of whom Wilson was won, and robbed Sir David Dalryble
• 3:07:18
  Speaker 1: of three pounds, a snuff box and a pocket book,
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 1: for which last Sir David offered sixty pound reward to
• 3:07:27
  Speaker 1: wild but the robbers, having no connection with that execrable villain,
• 3:07:32
  Speaker 1: who did not even know their persons, they sent the
• 3:07:35
  Speaker 1: book by a porter to Sir David without expense. Hawkins
• 3:07:40
  Speaker 1: and his associate's next stop mister Hyde of Hackney in
• 3:07:44
  Speaker 1: his coach, and robbed him of ten pounds and his watch,
• 3:07:48
  Speaker 1: but missed three hundred pounds, which the gentleman then had
• 3:07:51
  Speaker 1: in his possession. After this, they stopped the Earl of
• 3:07:54
  Speaker 1: Westmoreland's coach in Lincoln's inn Fields and robbed him of
• 3:07:59
  Speaker 1: a sum of money. Though there were three footmen behind
• 3:08:02
  Speaker 1: the carriage. The footmen called the watch, but the robbers,
• 3:08:06
  Speaker 1: firing a pistol over their heads, the guardians of the
• 3:08:09
  Speaker 1: night decamped. Hawkins had now resolved to carry the booty
• 3:08:13
  Speaker 1: obtained in several late robberies to Holland, but Jonathan Wilde,
• 3:08:18
  Speaker 1: having heard of the connection, caused some of the gang
• 3:08:21
  Speaker 1: to be apprehended, on which the rest went into the
• 3:08:23
  Speaker 1: country to hide themselves. On this occasion, Hawkins and Wilson
• 3:08:29
  Speaker 1: went to Oxford, and paying a visit to the Bodleian Library,
• 3:08:33
  Speaker 1: the former wantonly defaced some pictures in the gallery, and
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 1: a hundred pounds reward was offered to discover the offender,
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 1: and a poor tailor, being taken up on suspicion, narrowly
• 3:08:45
  Speaker 1: escaped being whipped merely because he was of Whiggish principles.
• 3:08:51
  Speaker 1: Wilson and Hawkins returning to London, and the former, coming
• 3:08:54
  Speaker 1: of age at that time, succeeded to a little estate
• 3:08:58
  Speaker 1: his father had left him, which he sold for three
• 3:09:01
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pounds, a small part of which he
• 3:09:04
  Speaker 1: lent to his companions to buy horses, and soon dissipated
• 3:09:08
  Speaker 1: the rest at the gaming table. The associates now stopped
• 3:09:13
  Speaker 1: two gentlemen in a chariot on Hampstead Road, who both
• 3:09:16
  Speaker 1: fired at once, by which three slugs were lodged in
• 3:09:20
  Speaker 1: Hawkin's shoulder, and the highwaymen got to London with some difficulty.
• 3:09:25
  Speaker 1: On Hawkin's recovery, they attempted to stop a gentleman's coach
• 3:09:29
  Speaker 1: in Hyde Park, but the coachman, driving hastily, Wilson fired
• 3:09:34
  Speaker 1: and wounding himself in the hand, found it difficult to
• 3:09:37
  Speaker 1: scale the park wall to effect his escape. This circumstance
• 3:09:42
  Speaker 1: occasioned some serious thoughts in his mind, in consequence of
• 3:09:46
  Speaker 1: which he set out for his mother's house in Yorkshire,
• 3:09:49
  Speaker 1: where he was kindly received and fully determined never to
• 3:09:53
  Speaker 1: return to his former practices. While he was engaged in
• 3:09:57
  Speaker 1: his mother's business and planning schemes for domestic to happiness,
• 3:10:01
  Speaker 1: he was sent for to a public house, where he
• 3:10:03
  Speaker 1: found his old acquaintance Hawkins, in company with George Simpson,
• 3:10:08
  Speaker 1: of whom we shall have occasion to relate more. In
• 3:10:10
  Speaker 1: the course of this narrative, Wilson was shocked at seeing
• 3:10:14
  Speaker 1: them and asked what could induce them to make such
• 3:10:17
  Speaker 1: a journey Hereupon Hawkins swore violently said Wilson was impeached
• 3:10:23
  Speaker 1: and would be taken into custody in a few days.
• 3:10:26
  Speaker 1: This induced him to go to London with them, but
• 3:10:29
  Speaker 1: on his arrival he found that the story of the
• 3:10:32
  Speaker 1: impeachment was false. When in London, they formed connections with
• 3:10:36
  Speaker 1: other thieves and committed several robberies, for which some of
• 3:10:40
  Speaker 1: the gang were executed. They frequented a public house at
• 3:10:44
  Speaker 1: London Wall, the master of which kept the libery stable,
• 3:10:48
  Speaker 1: so that they rode out at all hours and robbed
• 3:10:51
  Speaker 1: the stages as they were coming into town. They took
• 3:10:55
  Speaker 1: not only money, but portmanteaus and et cetera, and divided
• 3:10:59
  Speaker 1: the booty with hard the master of the livery stable.
• 3:11:03
  Speaker 1: In this practice they continued a considerable time till they
• 3:11:06
  Speaker 1: were apprehended for robbing the mail, which we shall have
• 3:11:09
  Speaker 1: occasion to mention in the sequel. George Simpson was a
• 3:11:14
  Speaker 1: native of Putney in Surrey. His father was a wine merchant,
• 3:11:18
  Speaker 1: but being reduced in circumstances removed to Lincolnshire. Young Simpson
• 3:11:23
  Speaker 1: kept a public house at Lincoln and acted as a
• 3:11:25
  Speaker 1: sheriff's officer. But quitting the country, he came to London
• 3:11:30
  Speaker 1: and was butler to Lord Castlemaine, after which he lived
• 3:11:34
  Speaker 1: in several other credible places. He now became acquainted with Hawkins,
• 3:11:39
  Speaker 1: in company with whom he stopped the carriage of Richard
• 3:11:42
  Speaker 1: west x Esquire behind Buckingham House, from whom they took
• 3:11:47
  Speaker 1: a gold watch and other valuable articles. Soon after this
• 3:11:52
  Speaker 1: he robbed the Portsmouth coach in company with Wilson, when
• 3:11:55
  Speaker 1: one of the company fired at them. Thus they continued
• 3:11:59
  Speaker 1: their depredations on the public till one of their associates
• 3:12:03
  Speaker 1: named Child, was executed at Aylesbury and hung in chains
• 3:12:07
  Speaker 1: for robbing the mail. This insents them to such a
• 3:12:11
  Speaker 1: degree that they determined to revenge the supposed insult by
• 3:12:15
  Speaker 1: committing a similar crime. They mentioned their design in the
• 3:12:21
  Speaker 1: presence of Carter, the stable keeper, who advised them to
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 1: stop the mail from Harich, But this they declined, because
• 3:12:30
  Speaker 1: the changing of the wind must render the time of
• 3:12:32
  Speaker 1: its arrival uncertain. At length, it was determined that they
• 3:12:36
  Speaker 1: would rob the Bristol mail, and they set out on
• 3:12:40
  Speaker 1: an expedition for that purpose. It appeared on the trail
• 3:12:45
  Speaker 1: that the boy who carried the mail was overtaken at
• 3:12:48
  Speaker 1: Slough by a countryman who traveled with him to Langley Broome,
• 3:12:53
  Speaker 1: where a person rode up to them and turned back again.
• 3:12:57
  Speaker 1: After passing through Colmbook, they saw the same man again
• 3:13:01
  Speaker 1: with two others, who followed them at a small distance,
• 3:13:05
  Speaker 1: and then, pulling their wigs over their foreheads and holding
• 3:13:09
  Speaker 1: handkerchiefs in their mouths, came up with them and commanded
• 3:13:14
  Speaker 1: the post boy and the countrymen to come down a lane,
• 3:13:17
  Speaker 1: where they ordered them to quit their horses, and then Hawkins,
• 3:13:21
  Speaker 1: Simpson and Wilson tied them back to back and fastened
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 1: them to a tree in a wet ditch, so that
• 3:13:29
  Speaker 1: they were obliged to stand in the water. This being done,
• 3:13:33
  Speaker 1: they took such papers as they liked out of the
• 3:13:36
  Speaker 1: bath and bristol bags, and hid the rest in a hedge.
• 3:13:40
  Speaker 1: They now crossed the Thames, and, riding a little way
• 3:13:43
  Speaker 1: into Surrey, put up their horses at an inn in
• 3:13:46
  Speaker 1: Bermondsey Street. He was now about six in the morning
• 3:13:51
  Speaker 1: when they parted and went different ways to a public
• 3:13:54
  Speaker 1: house in the mineries, where they proposed to divide their
• 3:13:57
  Speaker 1: ill gotten treasure. The landlord, being acquainted with the persons,
• 3:14:01
  Speaker 1: and knowing the profession of his guests, showed them a
• 3:14:05
  Speaker 1: private room and supplied them with pen and ink. Having
• 3:14:09
  Speaker 1: equally divided the bank notes, they threw the letters in
• 3:14:12
  Speaker 1: the fire and then went to their lodgings at Green
• 3:14:16
  Speaker 1: Arbor Court in the Old Bailey. A few days after
• 3:14:20
  Speaker 1: this transaction they were taken into custody in the following manner.
• 3:14:24
  Speaker 1: Information having been given at the post office that suspicious
• 3:14:28
  Speaker 1: people frequented the house of Carter, the stable keeper at
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 1: London Wall, some persons were sent thither to make the
• 3:14:36
  Speaker 1: necessary discoveries. Wilson, happening to be there at the time,
• 3:14:40
  Speaker 1: suspected their business, on which he abruptly retired, slipped through
• 3:14:44
  Speaker 1: some by alleys and got into the Moorgate coffee house,
• 3:14:48
  Speaker 1: which he had occasionally used two years before, on account
• 3:14:52
  Speaker 1: of its being frequented by reputable company and therefore less
• 3:14:57
  Speaker 1: liable to be searched for suspicious people. He had not
• 3:15:01
  Speaker 1: been long in the house before a quaker mentioned the
• 3:15:04
  Speaker 1: search that was making in the neighborhood for the men
• 3:15:08
  Speaker 1: who robbed the mail. This shocked him so that he
• 3:15:11
  Speaker 1: instantly paid his reckoning, and, going out the back door,
• 3:15:15
  Speaker 1: went into Bedlam, where the melancholy sight of the objects
• 3:15:18
  Speaker 1: around him induced him to draw a comparison between their
• 3:15:23
  Speaker 1: situation and his own. Any concluded that he was far
• 3:15:28
  Speaker 1: more unhappy through weight of his guilt than those poor
• 3:15:31
  Speaker 1: wretches whom it had pleased God to deprive of the
• 3:15:35
  Speaker 1: use of their intellects. Having reflected that it would not
• 3:15:38
  Speaker 1: be safe for him to stay longer in London, he
• 3:15:41
  Speaker 1: resolved to go to Newcastle by the Sea, and he
• 3:15:45
  Speaker 1: was confirmed in this resolution on reflecting that a person
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 1: who wished his safety had informed him that he and
• 3:15:52
  Speaker 1: his companions were the parties suspected of having robbed the mail.
• 3:15:57
  Speaker 1: This friend likewise advised him to go to the post office,
• 3:16:00
  Speaker 1: surrender and turn evidence, hinting that if he did not,
• 3:16:05
  Speaker 1: he was probable simpson Wood, as he had asked some
• 3:16:08
  Speaker 1: questions which seemed to intimate such a design. Wilson neglected
• 3:16:14
  Speaker 1: this advice, but held his resolution of going to Newcastle,
• 3:16:19
  Speaker 1: and with that intention quitted Bedlam. But by Morgay Coffee
• 3:16:23
  Speaker 1: House he met the man he had seen at Carter's.
• 3:16:28
  Speaker 1: They turned and followed him. Yet unperceived by them, he
• 3:16:31
  Speaker 1: entered the coffee house while they went under the arch
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 1: of the gate, And if he had returned by the
• 3:16:37
  Speaker 1: door he entered, he would have again escaped them. But
• 3:16:41
  Speaker 1: going out of the fore door of the house, they
• 3:16:44
  Speaker 1: took him into custody and conducted him to the post office.
• 3:16:49
  Speaker 1: On his first examination, he refused to make any confession.
• 3:16:53
  Speaker 1: On the following day he seemed equally determined to conceal
• 3:16:56
  Speaker 1: the truth till two circumstances induced him to recteal it.
• 3:17:01
  Speaker 1: In the first place, the Postmaster General promised that he
• 3:17:04
  Speaker 1: should be admitted an evidence if he would discover his accomplices,
• 3:17:09
  Speaker 1: and one of the clerks, calling him aside, showed him
• 3:17:14
  Speaker 1: a letter without any name to it, of which the
• 3:17:17
  Speaker 1: following is a copy quote, Sir, I am one of
• 3:17:21
  Speaker 1: those persons who robbed the mails, which I am sorry for,
• 3:17:25
  Speaker 1: and to make amends, I will secure my two companions
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 1: as soon as may be he whose hand this shall
• 3:17:32
  Speaker 1: appear to be, will I hope be entitled to reward
• 3:17:37
  Speaker 1: and his pardon. End quote. As Wilson knew this letter
• 3:17:42
  Speaker 1: to be of Simpson's handwriting, he thought himself justified in
• 3:17:45
  Speaker 1: making a full discovery, which he accordingly did, in consequence
• 3:17:49
  Speaker 1: of which his associates were apprehended at their lodgings in
• 3:17:53
  Speaker 1: the Old Bailey two days afterwards. At first they made
• 3:17:57
  Speaker 1: an appearance of resistance and threatened to shoot the peace officers,
• 3:18:01
  Speaker 1: but the latter, saying they were provided with arms, the
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 1: offenders yielded and were committed to Newgate. On the trial,
• 3:18:09
  Speaker 1: Hawkins endeavored to prove that he was in London at
• 3:18:12
  Speaker 1: the time the mail was robbed, and when Fuller of
• 3:18:16
  Speaker 1: Bedfordbury swore he lodged at his house that night. To
• 3:18:21
  Speaker 1: ascertain this, Fuller produced to receipt for thirty shillings, which
• 3:18:27
  Speaker 1: he said Hawkins then paid him for horse hire. The judge,
• 3:18:31
  Speaker 1: desiring to look at that receipt, observed that the body
• 3:18:35
  Speaker 1: of it was written in an ink of a different
• 3:18:38
  Speaker 1: color from that of the name at the bottom, on
• 3:18:42
  Speaker 1: which he ordered the note to be handed to the jury,
• 3:18:45
  Speaker 1: and remarked that Fuller's testimony deserved no kind of credit.
• 3:18:49
  Speaker 1: After examining some other witnesses, the judge proceeded to sum
• 3:18:53
  Speaker 1: up the evidence, in which he was interrupted by a
• 3:18:56
  Speaker 1: singular occurrence which will be best under stood by giving it.
• 3:19:01
  Speaker 1: In the words of the shorthand writer, my ink, as
• 3:19:05
  Speaker 1: it happened, was very bad, being thick at the bottom
• 3:19:08
  Speaker 1: and thin and waterish at the top, and so that accordingly,
• 3:19:12
  Speaker 1: as I dipped my pen, the writing appeared very pale
• 3:19:16
  Speaker 1: or very black. Now, just as the court was remarking
• 3:19:20
  Speaker 1: on the difference in ink in Fuller's receipt, a gentleman
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 1: who stood by me, perceiving something of the same kind
• 3:19:26
  Speaker 1: in my writing, desired to look upon my notes for
• 3:19:29
  Speaker 1: a minute. As I was not aware of any ill consequence,
• 3:19:33
  Speaker 1: I let him take the book out of my hand,
• 3:19:36
  Speaker 1: when presently showing it to his friend. See here, said he,
• 3:19:42
  Speaker 1: what difference there is in the color of the ink.
• 3:19:45
  Speaker 1: His friend took it and showed it to another. Uneasy
• 3:19:48
  Speaker 1: at this, I spoke to them to return my book.
• 3:19:51
  Speaker 1: They begged my pardon and said I should have it
• 3:19:53
  Speaker 1: in a minute. But this answer was no sooner given
• 3:19:57
  Speaker 1: than A curiosity suddenly entered one of the jurymen who
• 3:20:00
  Speaker 1: sat just by, and he too begged a sight of
• 3:20:03
  Speaker 1: the book, which, notwithstanding my importunity, was immediately handed to him.
• 3:20:09
  Speaker 1: He viewed it and gave it to the next and
• 3:20:11
  Speaker 1: so it passed from one to another, till the judge,
• 3:20:14
  Speaker 1: perceiving them very busy, called to them, gentlemen, what are
• 3:20:18
  Speaker 1: you doing? What is that book? They told him it
• 3:20:22
  Speaker 1: was the writer's book, and they were observing how the
• 3:20:25
  Speaker 1: same ink appeared pale in one place and black in another.
• 3:20:29
  Speaker 1: You ought not, gentlemen, says he take notice of anything
• 3:20:35
  Speaker 1: but what is produced in evidence, and then turning to me,
• 3:20:39
  Speaker 1: demanded what I meant by showing that to the jury.
• 3:20:43
  Speaker 1: I answered that I could not fix upon the persons,
• 3:20:46
  Speaker 1: for the gentlemen near me were all strangers to me,
• 3:20:50
  Speaker 1: and I was far from imagining that I should have
• 3:20:53
  Speaker 1: any occasion for taking particular notice of them. His Lordship
• 3:20:57
  Speaker 1: then reassumed his charge to the jury, which, being ended,
• 3:21:01
  Speaker 1: they withdrew to consider of their verdict. After staying out
• 3:21:06
  Speaker 1: about an hour, the jury returned into court without agreeing
• 3:21:10
  Speaker 1: on a verdict, saying they could not be convinced that
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 1: Fuller's receipt was not genuine, merely on account of the
• 3:21:17
  Speaker 1: different colors of the ink. In answer, here too, the
• 3:21:22
  Speaker 1: court intimated how many witnesses had sworn that Hawkins was
• 3:21:26
  Speaker 1: absent from London, to contradict all of whom there was
• 3:21:31
  Speaker 1: only the evidence of Fuller, which was at least rendered
• 3:21:34
  Speaker 1: doubtful by the ink appearing of two colors, and it
• 3:21:38
  Speaker 1: was submitted whether Fuller's single testimony ought to be held
• 3:21:43
  Speaker 1: of equal validity with that of all the opposing parties.
• 3:21:48
  Speaker 1: Hereupon the jury went out of court, and on their
• 3:21:51
  Speaker 1: return gave a verdict of guilty against both the prisoners.
• 3:21:56
  Speaker 1: After sentence of death, they behaved as became persons in
• 3:22:00
  Speaker 1: their unfortunate circumstances. Simpson in particular, appeared to be highly
• 3:22:06
  Speaker 1: affected with the awfulness of his situation. At the place
• 3:22:10
  Speaker 1: of execution, Hawkins addressed the surrounding multitude, acknowledging that his
• 3:22:15
  Speaker 1: sins had brought him to that shameful end, professing to
• 3:22:19
  Speaker 1: die in charity with all mankind, and begging the prayers
• 3:22:23
  Speaker 1: of those who were witnesses of his melancholy exit. He
• 3:22:29
  Speaker 1: died with great difficulty, but Simpson was out of his
• 3:22:33
  Speaker 1: pain almost without a struggle. Account of the trial of
• 3:22:37
  Speaker 1: Margaret Fisher for privately stealing with the singular evidence given
• 3:22:42
  Speaker 1: against her in September seventeen twenty two, Margaret Fisher was
• 3:22:48
  Speaker 1: indicted at the Old Bailey for privately stealing thirteen guineas
• 3:22:52
  Speaker 1: from the person of Daniel mac donald. As our readers
• 3:22:56
  Speaker 1: have a claim upon us for matters of entertainment as
• 3:23:00
  Speaker 1: well as instruction, we are ready to gratify them, as
• 3:23:04
  Speaker 1: we always shall be, when it can be done without
• 3:23:07
  Speaker 1: grossly violating the laws of decency. And we insert the
• 3:23:11
  Speaker 1: following for the sake of the whimsical singularity of the
• 3:23:16
  Speaker 1: prosecutor's evidence, which was delivered in the following terms, and
• 3:23:21
  Speaker 1: leak your Lairdship. I had just taken my wages thirteen
• 3:23:27
  Speaker 1: guineas in good and was gone along King Strait in
• 3:23:32
  Speaker 1: Wastminster when I met with this fae queen at the bar,
• 3:23:40
  Speaker 1: and she spirited me where I was gone. I told
• 3:23:45
  Speaker 1: her Haim. She said jen, I would go with her
• 3:23:51
  Speaker 1: till Joonie Davis's house. She would give me a dram sir,
• 3:23:58
  Speaker 1: for in truth she took me for a poor gawky
• 3:24:04
  Speaker 1: boss headed chill and leak your ladship. She took my
• 3:24:10
  Speaker 1: hood on my hand and lad me again I can
• 3:24:17
  Speaker 1: a real wheel. And when we came to Junie Davis's
• 3:24:23
  Speaker 1: who'se she called for mickelbeer and braind and guard me
• 3:24:31
  Speaker 1: as bung as a swoop and leak your honor. I
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 1: stayed there with her a pratty while an ton sir.
• 3:24:42
  Speaker 1: I pit my hand into my bricks to feel for
• 3:24:47
  Speaker 1: money to pay the rackening. But the deal a bobby
• 3:24:53
  Speaker 1: could I find, for it was a tint. And when
• 3:24:58
  Speaker 1: I spirit about, they glored and turned me again. I
• 3:25:04
  Speaker 1: want to attack myself a warm They what go me
• 3:25:10
  Speaker 1: go with a deal to me? They dang me soussayr
• 3:25:19
  Speaker 1: and turned me oot at the back door into the
• 3:25:23
  Speaker 1: strat and I wrembled a boot and could not find
• 3:25:28
  Speaker 1: the hoose again. And the watchman met with me and
• 3:25:34
  Speaker 1: carried me into the run house. And there I told
• 3:25:39
  Speaker 1: em who I had been rubbed the neast mourning, I
• 3:25:45
  Speaker 1: got on foot oot Junie Davis's hoose, but she was
• 3:25:51
  Speaker 1: ran away and the prisoner too. But at neat about
• 3:25:57
  Speaker 1: seven o'clook, I met with this ambudent batch at the
• 3:26:04
  Speaker 1: bar and took her up. I kin reel weel eneuch
• 3:26:11
  Speaker 1: that she must ha my good for Nasal also was
• 3:26:18
  Speaker 1: with me. But Joonie Davis brought why we called for
• 3:26:27
  Speaker 1: let her de kneed on. She can somebody, but I
• 3:26:34
  Speaker 1: cannot what it was offered me socks guineas in my
• 3:26:40
  Speaker 1: hand to make the matter up, but I will not
• 3:26:45
  Speaker 1: tack it. In her defense, the prisoner alleged that, meeting
• 3:26:51
  Speaker 1: with a coachman and the prosecutor, the former asked her
• 3:26:56
  Speaker 1: to drink, on which they went to the house of
• 3:26:59
  Speaker 1: missus Day, but that she sat on the opposite side
• 3:27:03
  Speaker 1: of the room, that the prosecutor did and had not
• 3:27:06
  Speaker 1: robbed him, and that nothing was found upon her when
• 3:27:10
  Speaker 1: she was searched. But the jury not believing her allegations,
• 3:27:14
  Speaker 1: and as she had no persons to appear in behalf
• 3:27:17
  Speaker 1: of her character, she was found guilty and received sentence
• 3:27:21
  Speaker 1: of death. However, she pleaded that she was with child,
• 3:27:25
  Speaker 1: and a jury of matrons, finding this to be the fact,
• 3:27:29
  Speaker 1: she had the good fortune to be respited and afterwards pardoned.
• 3:27:35
  Speaker 1: The end of part seven account of Richard Oake, John
• 3:27:39
  Speaker 1: Levy and Matthew Flood, who were hanged for a robbery.
• 3:27:45
  Speaker 1: Richard Oke was a native of London and bound apprentice
• 3:27:49
  Speaker 1: to a tailor, with whom he served about two years,
• 3:27:52
  Speaker 1: and then running away, got into company of a set
• 3:27:57
  Speaker 1: of blackguared boys who procured a miserable subsistence by picking
• 3:28:01
  Speaker 1: of pockets, and then they proceeded to the practice of
• 3:28:05
  Speaker 1: cutting off the pockets of women. In order to do
• 3:28:09
  Speaker 1: this effectually, one of them used to trip up the
• 3:28:12
  Speaker 1: woman's heels while the other cut off the pocket, and
• 3:28:15
  Speaker 1: they generally got out of reach of detection before the
• 3:28:18
  Speaker 1: party robbed could recover her legs. These kinds of robberies
• 3:28:24
  Speaker 1: were very common formerly, but of late years they had
• 3:28:28
  Speaker 1: been very seldom practiced. Many of OKI's associates, belonging to
• 3:28:33
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Wiles, gang that infernal villain had caused several of
• 3:28:37
  Speaker 1: them to be hanged when he could make no farther
• 3:28:40
  Speaker 1: advantage of them. Having thus lost his old acquaintance, he
• 3:28:45
  Speaker 1: became connected with a woman of town who taught him
• 3:28:48
  Speaker 1: the following singular method of robbery. They used to walk
• 3:28:53
  Speaker 1: through the streets, the woman going a little before Oki.
• 3:28:57
  Speaker 1: When she observed a lady walking near where a coach
• 3:28:59
  Speaker 1: was turning, she used to catch her arms, crying, take care, madam,
• 3:29:04
  Speaker 1: you will be run over, and in the interim Oki
• 3:29:08
  Speaker 1: was certain to cut off her pocket. But this way
• 3:29:11
  Speaker 1: of life did not last long, for this abandoned woman
• 3:29:14
  Speaker 1: soon after died in consequence of some bruises she received
• 3:29:18
  Speaker 1: from a fellow she had ill treated, and on her death,
• 3:29:21
  Speaker 1: Oke followed the practice of snatching pockets without a partner
• 3:29:26
  Speaker 1: and became one of the most dexterous in his profession.
• 3:29:30
  Speaker 1: Not long after this, he became acquainted with several housebreakers,
• 3:29:34
  Speaker 1: who persuaded him to follow their course of life as
• 3:29:37
  Speaker 1: more profitable than the stealing of pockets. In the first
• 3:29:41
  Speaker 1: attempt they were successful, but the second, in which two
• 3:29:45
  Speaker 1: others were concerned with him, was the breaking open a
• 3:29:49
  Speaker 1: shop in the borough, from whence they stole the quantity
• 3:29:52
  Speaker 1: of Kalamanico's for which offense Oki was apprehended, on which
• 3:29:57
  Speaker 1: he impeached his accomplices, of whom was hanged and the
• 3:30:01
  Speaker 1: other transported on his evidence. Deterred from thoughts of house
• 3:30:06
  Speaker 1: breaking by this adventure, Oki returned for a while to
• 3:30:10
  Speaker 1: his old employment, and then became acquainted with a man
• 3:30:13
  Speaker 1: called Will the Sailor. When their plan of robbery was this, Will,
• 3:30:18
  Speaker 1: who wore a sword, used to affront persons in the
• 3:30:21
  Speaker 1: streets and provoke them till they stripped to fight with him,
• 3:30:25
  Speaker 1: and then Oki used to DeCamp with their clothes. However,
• 3:30:29
  Speaker 1: these associates in iniquities soon quarreled and parted and Oki,
• 3:30:34
  Speaker 1: who by this time was an accomplished thief, entered into
• 3:30:37
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Wiles's gang. John Levy was the son of a
• 3:30:42
  Speaker 1: French gentleman who resided some time in England during the
• 3:30:45
  Speaker 1: reign of King Charles the Second, and taught the French
• 3:30:49
  Speaker 1: language to three natural sons of that prince. But he
• 3:30:53
  Speaker 1: retired to Holland and there died soon after the advancement
• 3:30:57
  Speaker 1: of King William to the throne. Young Levy was educated
• 3:31:01
  Speaker 1: at the expense of the French Protestants in London, and
• 3:31:05
  Speaker 1: was then bound apprentice to a captain in the Royal Navy.
• 3:31:09
  Speaker 1: He served as a sailor for some years, and was
• 3:31:12
  Speaker 1: present at the defeat of the Spanish fleet in the
• 3:31:14
  Speaker 1: Mediterranean in Queen Anne's reign, and afterwards sailed under Admiral
• 3:31:19
  Speaker 1: Norris in his fruitless expedition against the Russian fleet in
• 3:31:24
  Speaker 1: the Baltic When the admiral came back to England, Levy's
• 3:31:28
  Speaker 1: friends recommended him to the service of a merchant in
• 3:31:32
  Speaker 1: Thames Street, in the capacity of under clerk, for which
• 3:31:35
  Speaker 1: he was not ill qualified, But being too unsettled a
• 3:31:38
  Speaker 1: temper to apply himself to business, he declined this opportunity
• 3:31:42
  Speaker 1: of providing for himself, and soon spent the little money
• 3:31:46
  Speaker 1: he was possessed of. Going one evening to a public
• 3:31:49
  Speaker 1: house in Holborn, he met with some thieves of Jonathan
• 3:31:53
  Speaker 1: Wiles gang, who soon persuaded him to join them in
• 3:31:57
  Speaker 1: their lawless depredations, which at length brought him to destruction.
• 3:32:01
  Speaker 1: Matthew Flood was the son of parents of good character,
• 3:32:05
  Speaker 1: and born at Shadwell. He was apprenticed to a lighterman,
• 3:32:09
  Speaker 1: with whom he lived a considerable time, but being a
• 3:32:13
  Speaker 1: verse to a life of labor, his master and he
• 3:32:16
  Speaker 1: parted by joint consent, and soon afterwards he became acquainted
• 3:32:21
  Speaker 1: with Oakey Levy and their dissolute companions. The robberies committed
• 3:32:26
  Speaker 1: by this gang are too numerous for recital. They were
• 3:32:29
  Speaker 1: for some time the terror of travelers near London. We
• 3:32:33
  Speaker 1: shall mention only one robbery, exclusive of that for which
• 3:32:37
  Speaker 1: they suffered. They stopped a coach between Camberwell and London,
• 3:32:42
  Speaker 1: in which were five men and a woman. The men
• 3:32:45
  Speaker 1: said they would deliver their money, but begged they would
• 3:32:48
  Speaker 1: not search, as the woman was with child. Among the
• 3:32:52
  Speaker 1: gang was Blueskin, who, holding a hat, received the money.
• 3:32:56
  Speaker 1: The passengers put into it, which appeared to be a
• 3:32:59
  Speaker 1: considerable so but on examination it was found to be
• 3:33:03
  Speaker 1: chiefly haypence. The gang suspected that Blueskin had defrauded them,
• 3:33:09
  Speaker 1: as it was not the first time he had cheated
• 3:33:12
  Speaker 1: his fellow thieves, but they were greatly mortified that they
• 3:33:16
  Speaker 1: had neglected to search the coach when they afterwards learned
• 3:33:20
  Speaker 1: that there were three hundred pounds in it. Some time
• 3:33:24
  Speaker 1: after this, Oakie, Levy, Flood and Blueskin stopped Colonel Cope
• 3:33:29
  Speaker 1: and mister Young in a carriage on their return from
• 3:33:32
  Speaker 1: Hampstead and robbed them of their watches, rings and money.
• 3:33:37
  Speaker 1: Information of this robbery was sent to Jonathan Wilde, who
• 3:33:40
  Speaker 1: caused the parties to be apprehended, and Blueskin being admitted
• 3:33:44
  Speaker 1: in evidence. They were tried, convicted, sentenced, and ordered for
• 3:33:49
  Speaker 1: execution after conviction. Their behavior was exceedingly proper for persons
• 3:33:56
  Speaker 1: in their calamitous situation. They did not flatter them with
• 3:34:00
  Speaker 1: vain hopes of a pardon, but exerted themselves by every
• 3:34:04
  Speaker 1: act of devotion, to make a proper preparation for their
• 3:34:07
  Speaker 1: approaching end. At the last scene of their lives, they
• 3:34:12
  Speaker 1: addressed the spectators, advising them to take warning by their
• 3:34:16
  Speaker 1: fatal end. Oki said that what gave him more concern
• 3:34:21
  Speaker 1: than all his other offenses was the burning of a will,
• 3:34:25
  Speaker 1: which he found with some money and rings in a
• 3:34:28
  Speaker 1: pocket which he had cut from a lady's side, a
• 3:34:32
  Speaker 1: circumstance which had proved highly detrimental to the owner. These
• 3:34:37
  Speaker 1: offenders suffered a tyburn on the eighth of February seventeen
• 3:34:42
  Speaker 1: twenty three. Singular case of Alexander Day, who was convicted
• 3:34:48
  Speaker 1: of defrauding several tradesmen. In modern times, we have had
• 3:34:53
  Speaker 1: several instances of villains who have proceeded on a similar
• 3:34:57
  Speaker 1: plan with Day, but a few of them have cut
• 3:35:00
  Speaker 1: so great a figure, nor any of them met with
• 3:35:03
  Speaker 1: a fate exactly similar. We shall be the more particular
• 3:35:07
  Speaker 1: in our account of this artful villain. Day was a
• 3:35:10
  Speaker 1: professed sharper who pretended to be a man of fortune.
• 3:35:15
  Speaker 1: He assumed the title of Marmaduke Davenport Esquire, and taking
• 3:35:20
  Speaker 1: a large house in Queen's Square, asserted that he possessed
• 3:35:25
  Speaker 1: a capital estate in the north of England. He had
• 3:35:29
  Speaker 1: a footman who seems to have been an accomplice with him,
• 3:35:32
  Speaker 1: this man, he sent to a livery stable to inquire
• 3:35:35
  Speaker 1: the price of a pair of horses, which he himself
• 3:35:39
  Speaker 1: afterwards agreed to purchase, and then desired the stable keeper
• 3:35:43
  Speaker 1: to recommend a coachman, a man rather lusty, as he
• 3:35:47
  Speaker 1: had a suit of livery clothes of a large size
• 3:35:50
  Speaker 1: by him. The man was accordingly recommended, but when the
• 3:35:54
  Speaker 1: livery was tried on Day observed that as they did
• 3:35:58
  Speaker 1: not fit him, he would send into the country for
• 3:36:01
  Speaker 1: his own coachman. But this objection was obviated by the footman, who,
• 3:36:06
  Speaker 1: saying that the clothes would fit. With a small alteration,
• 3:36:09
  Speaker 1: the squire consented to hire the man. When the stable
• 3:36:13
  Speaker 1: keeper saw the coachman he had recommended, he inquired to
• 3:36:18
  Speaker 1: what places he had driven his new master, and, being
• 3:36:22
  Speaker 1: informed to the Duke of Montague's and other persons of rank,
• 3:36:26
  Speaker 1: he seemed satisfied, though he had began to form ideas
• 3:36:31
  Speaker 1: unfavorable to his new customer. Mister Day, having kept this
• 3:36:36
  Speaker 1: coach and horses something more than a week, gave orders
• 3:36:40
  Speaker 1: to be driven to a coffee house in Red Lions Square,
• 3:36:43
  Speaker 1: where he drank half a pint of wine at the
• 3:36:46
  Speaker 1: bar and asked if some gentlemen were come whom he
• 3:36:50
  Speaker 1: expected to dinner. Being answered in the negative, he went
• 3:36:54
  Speaker 1: out the back door without paying for his wine, and
• 3:36:57
  Speaker 1: said he would return in a few minutes. The coachman
• 3:37:00
  Speaker 1: waited a long time, but his master not coming back.
• 3:37:05
  Speaker 1: He drove to the stable keepers, who seemed glad to
• 3:37:09
  Speaker 1: have recovered his property out of such dangerous hands. It
• 3:37:13
  Speaker 1: seems that Day made no small use of this coach
• 3:37:16
  Speaker 1: while it was in his possession. He drove to the
• 3:37:20
  Speaker 1: shop of a lace merchant named Gravestock and asked for
• 3:37:24
  Speaker 1: some Spanish point, but the dealer having none of that
• 3:37:28
  Speaker 1: kind by him, The squire ordered fifty five pounds worth
• 3:37:32
  Speaker 1: of gold lace to be sent to his house in
• 3:37:35
  Speaker 1: Queen's Square. When Gravestock's servant carried the lace, Day desired
• 3:37:41
  Speaker 1: him to tell his master to call, as he was
• 3:37:44
  Speaker 1: in want of lace for some rich liveries, but he
• 3:37:47
  Speaker 1: must speak with his tailor before he could ascertain the
• 3:37:50
  Speaker 1: quantity wanted. Mister Gravestock attended his new customer, who gave
• 3:37:55
  Speaker 1: him so large an order for lace that if he
• 3:37:58
  Speaker 1: had executed it, he must have been a very considerable loser,
• 3:38:02
  Speaker 1: and the squire's liveries would have been gayer than those
• 3:38:06
  Speaker 1: of any nobleman in London. However, on the following day
• 3:38:11
  Speaker 1: he carried some lace of the sort he had left before,
• 3:38:14
  Speaker 1: nor did he forget to take his bill with him,
• 3:38:18
  Speaker 1: but the person who should have paid it was decamped.
• 3:38:22
  Speaker 1: The next trick practiced by our adventurer was as follows.
• 3:38:26
  Speaker 1: He went to the house of mister Markham, a goldsmith,
• 3:38:29
  Speaker 1: and ordered a gold equipage worth fifty pounds. Markham carried
• 3:38:34
  Speaker 1: home the equipage and had the honor to drink tea
• 3:38:37
  Speaker 1: with the supposed mister Davenport, who ordered other curious articles
• 3:38:42
  Speaker 1: and among the rest a chain of gold for his squirrel.
• 3:38:47
  Speaker 1: Mister Markham, observing that the squirrel wore a silver chain
• 3:38:51
  Speaker 1: which he had sold a lady not long before, began
• 3:38:54
  Speaker 1: to suspect his new customer, and waiting on the lady,
• 3:38:58
  Speaker 1: inquired if she knew Marmaduke Davenport esquire. She answered in
• 3:39:03
  Speaker 1: the negative, on which Markham mentioned the circumstance that had
• 3:39:07
  Speaker 1: arisen and described the person of the defraud. The lady
• 3:39:11
  Speaker 1: now recollected him and said his name was Alexander Day,
• 3:39:15
  Speaker 1: and that he had cheated her of property to a
• 3:39:18
  Speaker 1: considerable amount. In consequence of this information, Markham arrested the
• 3:39:23
  Speaker 1: sharper and recovered his property. On another occasion, Day went
• 3:39:28
  Speaker 1: in his carriage to the shop of a linen draper
• 3:39:31
  Speaker 1: named Scrimshaw, agreed for linen to the amount of forty
• 3:39:35
  Speaker 1: eight pounds, and ordered a large quantity to be sent
• 3:39:39
  Speaker 1: to his house on the following day, when he would
• 3:39:41
  Speaker 1: pay for the whole. The first parcel was delivered, but
• 3:39:46
  Speaker 1: the purchaser was decamped when the linen draper went with
• 3:39:49
  Speaker 1: the second. After this, he went to the shop of
• 3:39:53
  Speaker 1: a tea dealer named Kendrick and ordered tea to the
• 3:39:56
  Speaker 1: amount of twenty six pounds. The tea was set in
• 3:40:00
  Speaker 1: and the proprietor called for payment, when Day gave him
• 3:40:03
  Speaker 1: orders for a farther quantity, which he pretended to have
• 3:40:06
  Speaker 1: forgot before, and told him to call the next morning
• 3:40:10
  Speaker 1: when he should be paid for it by the steward.
• 3:40:13
  Speaker 1: The honest tea dealer called the next day, but neither
• 3:40:16
  Speaker 1: the squire nor the steward were to be found. His
• 3:40:20
  Speaker 1: next adventure was contrived to defraud mister Hinchcliffe, a silk mercer. Day,
• 3:40:28
  Speaker 1: going to his shop in his absence, left word for
• 3:40:31
  Speaker 1: him to call at his house to receive a large order.
• 3:40:35
  Speaker 1: The merchant went and saw a carriage at the door, and,
• 3:40:39
  Speaker 1: being told that the squire had company, he waited a
• 3:40:42
  Speaker 1: short time, during which the servants took care to inform
• 3:40:46
  Speaker 1: him that mister Davenport was the son of a baronet
• 3:40:50
  Speaker 1: of Yorkshire and possessed a large fortune in that county.
• 3:40:55
  Speaker 1: When he saw the supposed mister Davenport, he was told
• 3:40:59
  Speaker 1: that he wanted some silks, and wished that a quantity
• 3:41:02
  Speaker 1: might be sent for him to select such as he approved.
• 3:41:07
  Speaker 1: Mister Hinchcliffe said that the choice would be much better
• 3:41:11
  Speaker 1: made by fixing on the patterns at his shop. Hereupon,
• 3:41:16
  Speaker 1: Day took the mercer in his coach, and on their
• 3:41:19
  Speaker 1: way he talked of his father, Sir Marmaduke, and of
• 3:41:22
  Speaker 1: other people of rank, and said he was on the
• 3:41:24
  Speaker 1: point of marriage with the daughter of Councilor Ward, and
• 3:41:28
  Speaker 1: as he should be under necessity of furnishing a house
• 3:41:32
  Speaker 1: in London, he should want mercery goods to a large amount.
• 3:41:37
  Speaker 1: When they came to the mercer's shop, Day selected as
• 3:41:41
  Speaker 1: many damasks in etc. For bed furniture and hangings as
• 3:41:44
  Speaker 1: were worth a thousand pounds. It looks as if Hinchcliffe
• 3:41:49
  Speaker 1: now had some suspicion, for he told him that ladies
• 3:41:53
  Speaker 1: are best judges of such articles, and asked if he
• 3:41:56
  Speaker 1: had not a lady of acquaintance whom he could consult.
• 3:42:00
  Speaker 1: He readily answered that he had, and mentioned a lady
• 3:42:04
  Speaker 1: Davenport as his relation, saying, quote, send the silks to
• 3:42:09
  Speaker 1: my house and I will take her opinion of them
• 3:42:12
  Speaker 1: end quote. Mister Hinchcliff said he would send them, and
• 3:42:17
  Speaker 1: permitted him to take with him two pieces of brocade
• 3:42:20
  Speaker 1: worth about thirty pounds. But, desirous to know more of
• 3:42:24
  Speaker 1: his customer before he trusted him with the whole property,
• 3:42:28
  Speaker 1: he went to councilor ward and found that his daughter
• 3:42:31
  Speaker 1: was already married to a gentleman of the name of Davenport.
• 3:42:37
  Speaker 1: Hereupon the mercer went to the house of the supposed esquire,
• 3:42:41
  Speaker 1: but he was gone off with what property he had obtained.
• 3:42:45
  Speaker 1: It was likewise discovered that our adventurer, having casually met
• 3:42:50
  Speaker 1: at a coffee house, the mister Davenport, who had married
• 3:42:54
  Speaker 1: the daughter of councilur Warde, had prevailed on him to
• 3:42:58
  Speaker 1: call him cousin, on pretense that they must be related, because,
• 3:43:03
  Speaker 1: as he alleged, their coats of arms were the same.
• 3:43:08
  Speaker 1: After a course of fraud, Day was taken into custody
• 3:43:11
  Speaker 1: in the month of May seventeen twenty three on suspicion
• 3:43:15
  Speaker 1: of having robbed the mail but it proved that he
• 3:43:19
  Speaker 1: was not the man. However, there were six indictments brought
• 3:43:23
  Speaker 1: against him for the defrauds. In his defense, he pleaded
• 3:43:28
  Speaker 1: that his intention was to have paid for the goods
• 3:43:31
  Speaker 1: he purchased on credit, and he asserted that he possessed
• 3:43:35
  Speaker 1: an estate in the County of Durham, which he had
• 3:43:37
  Speaker 1: mortgaged for twelve hundred pounds. But no credit could be
• 3:43:42
  Speaker 1: given to his allegations, nor even if he had possessed
• 3:43:46
  Speaker 1: such an estate, would it have appeared that he acted
• 3:43:50
  Speaker 1: on honest principle. After a fair trial, he was convicted
• 3:43:54
  Speaker 1: and sentenced to suffer two years imprisonment in Newgate, to
• 3:43:58
  Speaker 1: stand twice in the pill, to pay a fine of
• 3:44:01
  Speaker 1: two hundred pounds, and to give security for his good
• 3:44:05
  Speaker 1: behavior for two years after the term of his imprisonment
• 3:44:10
  Speaker 1: should he expire. Case of William Hawksworth, who was executed
• 3:44:17
  Speaker 1: for murder. This malefactor was a native of Yorkshire, and
• 3:44:22
  Speaker 1: was born of reputable parents who gave him such an
• 3:44:25
  Speaker 1: education as was proper to qualify him for a considerable trade.
• 3:44:30
  Speaker 1: But being of a disposition too unsettled to think of business,
• 3:44:34
  Speaker 1: he enlisted for a soldier in hope of being promoted
• 3:44:37
  Speaker 1: in the army. After he had served some time and
• 3:44:41
  Speaker 1: found himself disappointed in his expectation of preferment, he made
• 3:44:46
  Speaker 1: interest to obtain his discharge, and then entered into the
• 3:44:50
  Speaker 1: service of a gentleman, with whom he behaved in a
• 3:44:52
  Speaker 1: proper manner for a considerable time. But not being content
• 3:44:58
  Speaker 1: with his situation, he repaired to London and again enlisted
• 3:45:01
  Speaker 1: as a soldier in the foot Guards. In this situation
• 3:45:05
  Speaker 1: he remained four years, during two of which he was
• 3:45:09
  Speaker 1: servant to the colonel, who entertained a very good opinion
• 3:45:12
  Speaker 1: of him, till an incident which unexpectedly arosed, occasioned the
• 3:45:17
  Speaker 1: crime for which he suffered. Before we relate the particulars,
• 3:45:22
  Speaker 1: it will be proper to remark that at the period
• 3:45:25
  Speaker 1: of which we are writing, party disputes ran very high,
• 3:45:29
  Speaker 1: and soldiers frequently were the subject of the contempts and
• 3:45:34
  Speaker 1: derision of the populace. While Hawksworth was marching with other
• 3:45:39
  Speaker 1: soldiers to relieve the guard in Saint James's Park. A
• 3:45:42
  Speaker 1: man named Ransom, who had a woman in his company,
• 3:45:46
  Speaker 1: jostled him and cried, what a stir is there about
• 3:45:50
  Speaker 1: King George's soldiers. Hawksworth, imagining the woman had incited him
• 3:45:56
  Speaker 1: to this behavior, quitted his rank and gave a blow
• 3:46:00
  Speaker 1: on the face. Irritated hereby, Ransom called him a puppy
• 3:46:06
  Speaker 1: and demanded the reason of his behavior to the woman.
• 3:46:10
  Speaker 1: The term of reproach enraged Hawksworth to such a degree
• 3:46:14
  Speaker 1: that he knocked the other down with his musket, and
• 3:46:18
  Speaker 1: then the soldiers marched on to relieve the guard. In
• 3:46:21
  Speaker 1: the meantime, a crowd of people gathered round Ransom, and,
• 3:46:26
  Speaker 1: finding he was much wounded, put him in a chair
• 3:46:29
  Speaker 1: and sent him to a surgeon, who examined him and
• 3:46:32
  Speaker 1: found his skull fractured to such a degree that there
• 3:46:36
  Speaker 1: was no hopes of his recovery, and he died in
• 3:46:39
  Speaker 1: a few hours. Hereupon, a person who had been witness
• 3:46:43
  Speaker 1: to what passed in the park went to the savoy, and,
• 3:46:47
  Speaker 1: having learnt the name of the offender, caused Hawksworth to
• 3:46:51
  Speaker 1: be taken into custody and he was committed to Newgate,
• 3:46:55
  Speaker 1: being brought to trial at the following sessions. The colonel
• 3:46:59
  Speaker 1: whom he had served gave him an excellent character, but
• 3:47:03
  Speaker 1: the facts were so clearly proved that the jury could
• 3:47:06
  Speaker 1: not do otherwise than convict him, and judgment of death
• 3:47:10
  Speaker 1: was passed accordingly. For some time after sentence he flattered
• 3:47:14
  Speaker 1: himself with the hope of a reprieve, But when the
• 3:47:18
  Speaker 1: warrant for his execution arrived, he seemed to give up
• 3:47:21
  Speaker 1: all hopes for life and seriously prepared himself to meet
• 3:47:25
  Speaker 1: his fate. He solemnly averred that ransom struck him first,
• 3:47:30
  Speaker 1: and said he did not recollect the circumstance of leaving
• 3:47:34
  Speaker 1: his rank to strike the blow that occasioned the death
• 3:47:37
  Speaker 1: of the other. He declared that he had no malice
• 3:47:41
  Speaker 1: against the deceased, and therefore thought himself acquitted in his
• 3:47:45
  Speaker 1: own mind of the crime of murder. However, he behaved
• 3:47:50
  Speaker 1: in a very contrite manner, and received the sacrament with
• 3:47:53
  Speaker 1: signs of sincerest devotion. A few minutes before he was executed,
• 3:47:58
  Speaker 1: he made a speech to the surrounding multitude, advising them
• 3:48:02
  Speaker 1: to keep a strict guard over their passions. He lamented
• 3:48:06
  Speaker 1: the situation of the common soldiers, who were considered as
• 3:48:10
  Speaker 1: cowards if they did not resent an injury, and if
• 3:48:15
  Speaker 1: they did, are liable to endure legal punishment for consequences
• 3:48:20
  Speaker 1: that may arise from such resentment. However, he advised his
• 3:48:25
  Speaker 1: brethren of the army to submit with patience to the
• 3:48:29
  Speaker 1: indignities that might be offered, and trust to the goodness
• 3:48:33
  Speaker 1: of God to recompense their sufferings. He was executed at
• 3:48:37
  Speaker 1: Tyburn on the seventeenth of June seventeen twenty three, at
• 3:48:42
  Speaker 1: age twenty seven years. Particulars respecting Thomas Athos Senior and
• 3:48:48
  Speaker 1: Thomas Atho Junior, who were hanged for murder. The crime
• 3:48:53
  Speaker 1: for which these men were tried was committed in Pembrokeshire,
• 3:48:58
  Speaker 1: but they were removed writ of Habeas Corpus to Hereford,
• 3:49:03
  Speaker 1: where on the nineteenth of March seventeen twenty three they
• 3:49:07
  Speaker 1: were indicted for the murder of George Merchant by beating
• 3:49:11
  Speaker 1: and kicking him on the head, face, breast, and et cetera,
• 3:49:15
  Speaker 1: on the twenty third of November seventeen twenty two, and
• 3:49:19
  Speaker 1: thereby giving him several mortal wounds and bruises of which
• 3:49:23
  Speaker 1: he died the same day. Atho the Elder was a
• 3:49:27
  Speaker 1: native of Cairu in Pembrokeshire, where he rented above one
• 3:49:32
  Speaker 1: hundred pounds per annum, and had lived in such irrespectable
• 3:49:37
  Speaker 1: way that in the year seventeen twenty he was chosen
• 3:49:40
  Speaker 1: mayor of Tenby, and his son a bailiff of the
• 3:49:44
  Speaker 1: same corporation, though they did not live in this place,
• 3:49:48
  Speaker 1: but in manner Beer, two miles distant from it. George Merchant,
• 3:49:52
  Speaker 1: who was murdered and his brother Thomas were nephews by
• 3:49:57
  Speaker 1: the mother's side to the elder Atho, there father having
• 3:50:00
  Speaker 1: married his sister. On the twenty third of November seventeen
• 3:50:05
  Speaker 1: twenty two, a fair was held at Tenby, where the
• 3:50:10
  Speaker 1: prisoners went to sell cattle, and there met the deceased
• 3:50:14
  Speaker 1: and his brother, Thomas Merchant, and a quarrel arose between
• 3:50:18
  Speaker 1: the younger Atho and George Merchant on an old grudge
• 3:50:22
  Speaker 1: respecting their right to part of an estate. When a
• 3:50:26
  Speaker 1: battle ensued in which the deceased had the advantage and
• 3:50:30
  Speaker 1: beat young Atho the elder. Atho, taking the advice of
• 3:50:35
  Speaker 1: an attorney on what had passed, he would have persuaded
• 3:50:39
  Speaker 1: him to bring an action, to which he replied, no, no,
• 3:50:44
  Speaker 1: we won't take the law, but we'll pay them in
• 3:50:48
  Speaker 1: their own coin. Late in the evening, after the fair
• 3:50:52
  Speaker 1: was ended, the deceased and his brother left the town,
• 3:50:55
  Speaker 1: but the Athos, going to the inn, inquired of the
• 3:50:59
  Speaker 1: ostler way they were gone. He gave them the best
• 3:51:03
  Speaker 1: information in his power, on which they immediately mounted and
• 3:51:06
  Speaker 1: followed them. The brothers stopped on the road at a
• 3:51:10
  Speaker 1: place called Holloway's Water to let their horses drink. In
• 3:51:14
  Speaker 1: the meantime, they heard the footsteps of other horses behind them, and,
• 3:51:19
  Speaker 1: turning about, saw two men riding at a small distance.
• 3:51:23
  Speaker 1: It was too dark for them to know the parties,
• 3:51:26
  Speaker 1: but they presently heard the voice of old Atho. Knowing
• 3:51:31
  Speaker 1: that he had sworn revenge, and dreading the consequence that
• 3:51:34
  Speaker 1: would probably ensue, they endeavored to conceal themselves behind a bridge,
• 3:51:39
  Speaker 1: but they were discovered by the splashing of their horses
• 3:51:42
  Speaker 1: feet made in the water. The Athos riding up with
• 3:51:47
  Speaker 1: large sticks. The younger said to George Merchant, I owe
• 3:51:51
  Speaker 1: thee a pass, and now thou shalt have it, and
• 3:51:54
  Speaker 1: immediately knocked him off his horse in the interim old
• 3:51:59
  Speaker 1: Atho attack Thomas Merchant and beat him likewise from his horse,
• 3:52:04
  Speaker 1: calling out at the same time, kill the dog's, kill
• 3:52:08
  Speaker 1: the dogs. The brothers begged hard for their lives, but
• 3:52:12
  Speaker 1: they pleaded to those who had no idea of pity.
• 3:52:16
  Speaker 1: The elder Atho seized Thomas Merchant in the tenderest part
• 3:52:21
  Speaker 1: and squeezed him in so violent a manner that human
• 3:52:24
  Speaker 1: nature could not long have sustained the pain. While the
• 3:52:28
  Speaker 1: younger Atho treated George Merchant in a similar way, and
• 3:52:33
  Speaker 1: carried his revenge to such a length that it is
• 3:52:36
  Speaker 1: not possible to relate the horrid deed with decency. And
• 3:52:41
  Speaker 1: when he had completed his execrable purpose, he called out
• 3:52:45
  Speaker 1: to his father, saying, now we've done George Merchant's business.
• 3:52:51
  Speaker 1: A great effusion of blood was the consequence of his barbarity,
• 3:52:55
  Speaker 1: but it seems that his savage revenge was not yet glutted,
• 3:52:59
  Speaker 1: for seizing the deceased by the nose with his teeth,
• 3:53:03
  Speaker 1: he bit it off and then strangled him by tying
• 3:53:07
  Speaker 1: a handkerchief tight round his neck. This being done, the
• 3:53:11
  Speaker 1: murderers quitted the spot, but some persons coming by took
• 3:53:15
  Speaker 1: the merchants to the adjacent house and sent for a surgeon,
• 3:53:19
  Speaker 1: who dressed the wounds of Thomas, but found that George
• 3:53:23
  Speaker 1: was dead, and the surgeon declared that the blows he
• 3:53:26
  Speaker 1: received were sufficient to have killed six or seven men,
• 3:53:31
  Speaker 1: for he had two bruises on his breast, three large
• 3:53:34
  Speaker 1: ones on his head, and twenty two on his back.
• 3:53:38
  Speaker 1: The elder Atho was taken into custody on the following day,
• 3:53:42
  Speaker 1: but the sun had fled to Ireland. However, those who
• 3:53:46
  Speaker 1: had been concerned in favoring his escape were glad to
• 3:53:50
  Speaker 1: use their endeavors to bring him back again. On trial.
• 3:53:54
  Speaker 1: The principal evidence against them was the surviving brother, who
• 3:53:58
  Speaker 1: was even then so week as to be indulged to
• 3:54:01
  Speaker 1: sit while he gave his evidence. But the jury, though
• 3:54:05
  Speaker 1: satisfied of the commission of the murder, entertained a doubt
• 3:54:09
  Speaker 1: whether the prisoners could be legally tried in any county
• 3:54:14
  Speaker 1: but that in which the crime was committed, on which
• 3:54:18
  Speaker 1: they brought in a special verdict, whereupon the case was
• 3:54:23
  Speaker 1: referred to the determination of the twelve judges, and the prisoners,
• 3:54:29
  Speaker 1: being brought up to London, were committed to King's Bench Prison,
• 3:54:33
  Speaker 1: where they remained until the twenty second of June seventeen
• 3:54:37
  Speaker 1: twenty three, and were then taken to the Court of
• 3:54:41
  Speaker 1: King's Bench in Westminster Hall, when a motion being made
• 3:54:46
  Speaker 1: by Council in arrest of judgment, the Court directed that
• 3:54:50
  Speaker 1: an Act of the thirty third of Henry the eighth
• 3:54:54
  Speaker 1: should be read in which is a clause ordaining that
• 3:54:59
  Speaker 1: all murders and robberies committed in on or about the
• 3:55:03
  Speaker 1: borders of Wales shall be triable in any county in
• 3:55:07
  Speaker 1: England where the criminals shall be taken, and that the
• 3:55:10
  Speaker 1: Court of King's Bench shall have power to remove by
• 3:55:14
  Speaker 1: writ of habeas corpus any prisoner confined in Wales to
• 3:55:18
  Speaker 1: the next county in England to be tried end in
• 3:55:23
  Speaker 1: consequence hereof the Court proceeded to give judgment and the
• 3:55:27
  Speaker 1: prisoners were remanded to King's Bench Prison. Between this and
• 3:55:32
  Speaker 1: the time of their execution, they were visited by mister Deutsch,
• 3:55:37
  Speaker 1: the chaplain of the prison, and by several other divines.
• 3:55:40
  Speaker 1: They continued to flatter themselves with hopes of life till
• 3:55:44
  Speaker 1: the warrant came down for their execution and endeavored to
• 3:55:48
  Speaker 1: extenuate their crime by a variety of frivolous pretenses respecting
• 3:55:53
  Speaker 1: disputes between them and the deceased. On the twenty eighth
• 3:55:57
  Speaker 1: of June, they received the sacrament with great devotion, and
• 3:56:02
  Speaker 1: did the same again on the morning of their execution.
• 3:56:06
  Speaker 1: Their behavior at the place of death may not be
• 3:56:10
  Speaker 1: improperly given nearly in the words of the minister who
• 3:56:14
  Speaker 1: attended them. Quote on Friday, the fifth of July seventeen
• 3:56:20
  Speaker 1: twenty three, about eleven o'clock in the morning, they were
• 3:56:24
  Speaker 1: conveyed in a cart to the place of execution. When
• 3:56:28
  Speaker 1: they came to the fatal tree, they behaved themselves in
• 3:56:32
  Speaker 1: a very decent manner, embracing each other with the utmost
• 3:56:36
  Speaker 1: tenderness and affection. And indeed the sons hiding his face
• 3:56:41
  Speaker 1: bedued with tears in his father's bosom. Was notwithstanding the
• 3:56:47
  Speaker 1: barbarous action they had committed, a very moving spectacle. They
• 3:56:52
  Speaker 1: begged of all good people to take warning by their
• 3:56:56
  Speaker 1: ignominious death, and were turned off, crying, Lord, have mercy
• 3:57:00
  Speaker 1: on us, Christ, have mercy on us. The bodies were
• 3:57:04
  Speaker 1: brought from the place of execution in two hearses to
• 3:57:08
  Speaker 1: the Falcon Inn in Southwark, in order to be buried
• 3:57:11
  Speaker 1: in Saint George's churchyard. They were executed at a place
• 3:57:17
  Speaker 1: called Saint Thomas's Watering, a little beyond Kent Street in Surrey,
• 3:57:23
  Speaker 1: the father being fifty eight years old and the son
• 3:57:26
  Speaker 1: within one day of twenty four at the time of
• 3:57:30
  Speaker 1: their deaths. The end of Part eight the singular case
• 3:57:36
  Speaker 1: of Captain John Massey, who was hanged for piracy. This
• 3:57:41
  Speaker 1: unhappy man, whose misfortune seemed to claim singular compassion, was
• 3:57:46
  Speaker 1: the son of a gentleman of fortune in the country,
• 3:57:49
  Speaker 1: who gave him a genteel education, But the disposition of
• 3:57:52
  Speaker 1: the young man not being sufficiently solid to admit his
• 3:57:56
  Speaker 1: living quietly at home, his father procured him a commission
• 3:58:00
  Speaker 1: in the army, and he served with great applause as
• 3:58:03
  Speaker 1: a lieutenant under the command of the Duke of Marlborough
• 3:58:07
  Speaker 1: during the Wars and Flanders in the reign of Queen Anne.
• 3:58:11
  Speaker 1: On his return to England, he conducted himself for some
• 3:58:14
  Speaker 1: time with great decency, but at length became acquainted with
• 3:58:18
  Speaker 1: a woman of bad character, to whom he was so
• 3:58:22
  Speaker 1: much attached that he would undoubtedly have married her if
• 3:58:26
  Speaker 1: his father, who got intelligence of the affair, had not
• 3:58:29
  Speaker 1: happily broke off the connection. Not long after this he
• 3:58:33
  Speaker 1: went with his regiment to Ireland, where he lived for
• 3:58:36
  Speaker 1: some time in a course of continued debauchery. But at
• 3:58:40
  Speaker 1: length he got appointed to the rank of lieutenant and
• 3:58:43
  Speaker 1: engineer in the Royal African Company, and sailed in one
• 3:58:47
  Speaker 1: of their ships to direct the building of fort. The
• 3:58:51
  Speaker 1: ship being ill supplied with provisions and those of the
• 3:58:55
  Speaker 1: worst kind, the sufferings of the crew were inexpressibly great.
• 3:59:00
  Speaker 1: Every officer on board died except Massey, and many of
• 3:59:03
  Speaker 1: the soldiers likewise fell a sacrifice to the scandalous neglect.
• 3:59:10
  Speaker 1: Those who lived to get on shore drank so greedily
• 3:59:13
  Speaker 1: of the fresh water that they were thrown into fluxes,
• 3:59:16
  Speaker 1: which destroyed them in the most rapid manner, till at
• 3:59:20
  Speaker 1: length only Captain Massey and a very few of his
• 3:59:24
  Speaker 1: people were left alive, and these, being totally unable to
• 3:59:28
  Speaker 1: build a fort, and seeing no prospect of relief, began
• 3:59:32
  Speaker 1: to abandon themselves to despair. But at this time a
• 3:59:36
  Speaker 1: vessel happening to come near the shore. They made signals
• 3:59:39
  Speaker 1: of distress, on which a boat was sent off to
• 3:59:42
  Speaker 1: their relief. They were no sooner on board than they
• 3:59:46
  Speaker 1: found the vessel was a pirate and distressed as they
• 3:59:50
  Speaker 1: had been too hastily engaged in their lawless plan. Rather
• 3:59:55
  Speaker 1: than run the hazard of perishing on shore sailing from hence,
• 3:59:59
  Speaker 1: they took several prizes, and though the persons made prisoners
• 4:00:03
  Speaker 1: were not ill used with cruelty. Mister Massey had so
• 4:00:06
  Speaker 1: true a sense of the illegality of the proceedings in
• 4:00:10
  Speaker 1: which he was connected that his mind was perpetually tormented
• 4:00:14
  Speaker 1: with the idea of the fatal consequences that might ensue.
• 4:00:18
  Speaker 1: At length, the ship reached Jamaica, when mister Massey seized
• 4:00:22
  Speaker 1: the first opportunity of deserting and repairing to the governor,
• 4:00:26
  Speaker 1: he gave such information that the crew of the pirate
• 4:00:29
  Speaker 1: vessel was taken into custody, convicted, and hanged. Massey might
• 4:00:33
  Speaker 1: have been provided for by the governor, who treated him
• 4:00:36
  Speaker 1: with singular respect on account of his services to the public,
• 4:00:40
  Speaker 1: but he declined his generous offer through an anxiety to
• 4:00:44
  Speaker 1: visit his native country. On a sailing for England. The
• 4:00:46
  Speaker 1: governor gave his recommendatory letters to the lords of the Admiralty. But,
• 4:00:51
  Speaker 1: astonishing as it may seem, instead of being caressed, he
• 4:00:56
  Speaker 1: was taken into custody and committed to a sessions of
• 4:01:00
  Speaker 1: admiralty was held for his trial, when he pleaded guilty
• 4:01:04
  Speaker 1: and received sentence of death. As his case was remarkable,
• 4:01:09
  Speaker 1: the public entertained no doubt, but he would have been pardoned,
• 4:01:13
  Speaker 1: but a warrant was sent for his execution, and he
• 4:01:16
  Speaker 1: made the most solemn preparations for his approaching fate. Two
• 4:01:21
  Speaker 1: clergymen attended him at the place of execution, where he
• 4:01:24
  Speaker 1: freely acknowledged his sins. In general, was remarkably fervent in
• 4:01:29
  Speaker 1: his devotions and seem perfectly resigned to the fatal destiny
• 4:01:33
  Speaker 1: he suffered at execution Dock on the twenty sixth July
• 4:01:37
  Speaker 1: seventeen twenty three. Mysterious are the ways of providence. To
• 4:01:43
  Speaker 1: the views of the short sighted mortals, it will appear
• 4:01:46
  Speaker 1: that this man ought not to have suffered, but Heaven
• 4:01:50
  Speaker 1: thought otherwise, And shall not the judge of all the
• 4:01:54
  Speaker 1: earth do right? It seems astonishing that mister Masty should
• 4:01:59
  Speaker 1: plead guilty at his trial, when his joining the pirates
• 4:02:03
  Speaker 1: was evidently an act of necessity, not of choice, and
• 4:02:06
  Speaker 1: when his subsequent conduct at Jamaica proves that he took
• 4:02:10
  Speaker 1: the earliest opportunity to abandon his late companions and bring
• 4:02:14
  Speaker 1: them to justice, a conduct by which he seems to
• 4:02:18
  Speaker 1: have merited the thanks of his country rather than the
• 4:02:21
  Speaker 1: vengeance of the laws. It is almost impossible to quit
• 4:02:25
  Speaker 1: this subject, on which volumes might be written, without once
• 4:02:29
  Speaker 1: more remarking on the savage inhumanity of that accursed trade
• 4:02:34
  Speaker 1: to Africa, the slave trade, the trade that is born
• 4:02:38
  Speaker 1: in avarice and nursed in blood. The English nation ought
• 4:02:43
  Speaker 1: to give up its bloated claim to humanity till the
• 4:02:46
  Speaker 1: trade be abolished. And we should blush at the idea
• 4:02:50
  Speaker 1: of punishing a pirate while we openly permit a traffic
• 4:02:54
  Speaker 1: that counteracts all the laws of benevolence. Shame on the people,
• 4:02:58
  Speaker 1: Shame on the legislators that can longer permit the continuance
• 4:03:02
  Speaker 1: of a practice so much more than hellish, a practice
• 4:03:07
  Speaker 1: which the fiends would blush to think of. But the
• 4:03:11
  Speaker 1: day of retribution may be nearer than we imagine. The
• 4:03:15
  Speaker 1: present state of Great Britain, this being written on the
• 4:03:19
  Speaker 1: second of June seventeen seventy eight, bears not the most
• 4:03:24
  Speaker 1: favorable aspect. And those who are dead to all feeling
• 4:03:29
  Speaker 1: for suffering of others may perhaps be alive to their own.
• 4:03:34
  Speaker 1: Vengeance is mine and I will repay saith the Lord,
• 4:03:40
  Speaker 1: particulars respecting Philip Brooch, who was hanged for piracy. This
• 4:03:44
  Speaker 1: atrocious malefactor was a native of Ireland, and being brought
• 4:03:48
  Speaker 1: up to a seafaring life, serve for a considerable time
• 4:03:52
  Speaker 1: on board some colding vessels, and then sailed to Barbados
• 4:03:56
  Speaker 1: on board a West Indiaman, and here he endeavored to
• 4:04:00
  Speaker 1: procure the place of a clerk to a factor, but
• 4:04:03
  Speaker 1: failing in this, he went again to sea and was
• 4:04:06
  Speaker 1: advanced to the situation of a first mate. He now
• 4:04:10
  Speaker 1: became acquainted with a fisherman named Neil, who hinted to
• 4:04:14
  Speaker 1: him that large sums of money might be acquired for
• 4:04:17
  Speaker 1: insuring ships and then causing them to be sunk to
• 4:04:21
  Speaker 1: defraud the insurers. Roach was wicked enough to listen to
• 4:04:25
  Speaker 1: this horrid tale, and becoming acquainted with a gentleman who
• 4:04:30
  Speaker 1: had a ship bound for Cape Breton. He got a
• 4:04:33
  Speaker 1: station on board, next in command to the captain, who,
• 4:04:37
  Speaker 1: having a high opinion of him, trusted the ship to
• 4:04:40
  Speaker 1: his management, directing the seamen to obey his commands. If
• 4:04:44
  Speaker 1: Roach had entertained any idea of sinking the ship. He
• 4:04:48
  Speaker 1: seemed now to have abandoned it, but he had brought
• 4:04:51
  Speaker 1: on board with him five irishmen who were concerned in
• 4:04:56
  Speaker 1: the shocking tragedy that ensued when they they had been
• 4:05:00
  Speaker 1: only a few days at sea. The plan was executed
• 4:05:03
  Speaker 1: as follows. One night, when the captain and most of
• 4:05:06
  Speaker 1: the crew were asleep, Roach gave orders to two of
• 4:05:10
  Speaker 1: the seamen to furl the sails, which, being immediately done,
• 4:05:14
  Speaker 1: the poor fellows no sooner descended to the deck than
• 4:05:17
  Speaker 1: Roach and his Hellish associates murdered them and throw them overboard.
• 4:05:22
  Speaker 1: At this instant, a man and a boy at a
• 4:05:25
  Speaker 1: yard arm observed what passed, and, dreading a similar fate,
• 4:05:29
  Speaker 1: hurried toward the topmast head, when one of the irishmen
• 4:05:33
  Speaker 1: named Cullen followed them, and, seizing the boy, threw him
• 4:05:36
  Speaker 1: into the sea. The man, thinking to effect at least
• 4:05:40
  Speaker 1: a present escape, descended to the main deck, where Roach
• 4:05:44
  Speaker 1: instantly seized and murdered him, and then threw him overboard.
• 4:05:49
  Speaker 1: The noise occasioned by these transactions alarmed the sailors below.
• 4:05:54
  Speaker 1: They hurried up with all possible expedition, but they were
• 4:05:58
  Speaker 1: severally seized and murdered as fast as they came on deck,
• 4:06:02
  Speaker 1: and being first knocked on the head, were thrown into
• 4:06:05
  Speaker 1: the sea at length. The Master and mate came on
• 4:06:09
  Speaker 1: the quarter deck when Roach and his villainous companions seized them,
• 4:06:13
  Speaker 1: and tying them back to back, committed them to the
• 4:06:16
  Speaker 1: merciless waves. These execrable murders being perpetrated, the murderers ransacked
• 4:06:22
  Speaker 1: the chests of the deceased, and then sat down to
• 4:06:26
  Speaker 1: regale themselves with liquor. And while the profligate crew were carousing,
• 4:06:32
  Speaker 1: they determined to commence pirates, and that Roach should be
• 4:06:35
  Speaker 1: the captain as the reward of his superior villainy. They
• 4:06:40
  Speaker 1: had intended to sail up the Gulf of Saint Lawrence,
• 4:06:43
  Speaker 1: but as they were within a few days sail of
• 4:06:47
  Speaker 1: the British Channel when the bloody tragedy was acted, and
• 4:06:50
  Speaker 1: finding themselves short of provisions, they put in at Portsmouth,
• 4:06:54
  Speaker 1: and giving the vessel a fictitious name, they painted her
• 4:06:57
  Speaker 1: afresh and then sailed for Rotterdam. Them at this city
• 4:07:02
  Speaker 1: they disposed of their cargo and took in a fresh one.
• 4:07:07
  Speaker 1: Here they were unknown, and an English gentleman named Annesley
• 4:07:11
  Speaker 1: shipped considerable property on board and took his passage with
• 4:07:15
  Speaker 1: them for the port of London. But the villains through
• 4:07:18
  Speaker 1: this unfortunate gentleman overboard after they had been only one
• 4:07:23
  Speaker 1: day at sea. When the ship arrived in the Thames River,
• 4:07:27
  Speaker 1: mister Annesley's friends made inquiry after him in consequence of
• 4:07:31
  Speaker 1: his having sent letters to England describing the ship in
• 4:07:34
  Speaker 1: which he proposed to embark. But Roach denied having any
• 4:07:37
  Speaker 1: knowledge of the gentleman, and even disclaimed his own name.
• 4:07:42
  Speaker 1: Notwithstanding his confident assertions, it was rightly presumed who he was,
• 4:07:47
  Speaker 1: and a letter which he sent to his wife being stopped.
• 4:07:51
  Speaker 1: He was taken into custody. Being carried before the Secretary
• 4:07:55
  Speaker 1: of State for examination, he averred that he was not
• 4:07:58
  Speaker 1: Philip Brooch, and said that he knew no person of
• 4:08:02
  Speaker 1: that name. Hereupon the intercepted letter was shown him, on
• 4:08:07
  Speaker 1: which he instantly confessed his crimes, and was immediately committed
• 4:08:11
  Speaker 1: to take his trial at the next Admiralty sessions. It
• 4:08:15
  Speaker 1: was intimated to Roach that he might expect a pardon
• 4:08:19
  Speaker 1: if he would impeach any three persons who were more
• 4:08:22
  Speaker 1: culpable than himself, so that they might be prosecuted to conviction,
• 4:08:28
  Speaker 1: but not being able to do this, he was brought
• 4:08:31
  Speaker 1: to his trial, found guilty, and judgment of death was
• 4:08:35
  Speaker 1: awarded against him. After conviction, he professed to be of
• 4:08:39
  Speaker 1: the Roman Catholic faith, but was certainly no bigot to
• 4:08:43
  Speaker 1: that religion, since he attended the devotions according to the
• 4:08:46
  Speaker 1: Protestant form. He was hanged at execution doc on the
• 4:08:51
  Speaker 1: fifth of August seventeen twenty three, but was so ill
• 4:08:55
  Speaker 1: at the time that he could not make any public
• 4:08:57
  Speaker 1: declaration of abhorrence of the crime for which he suffered.
• 4:09:03
  Speaker 1: The cases of William Duce and James Butler, who were
• 4:09:07
  Speaker 1: hanged for robbery. Deuce was a native of Wolverhampton and
• 4:09:11
  Speaker 1: by trade a buckle maker, which he followed some time
• 4:09:15
  Speaker 1: in London, but being imprisoned in Newgate for debt, he
• 4:09:19
  Speaker 1: there made connections which greatly tended to the corruption of
• 4:09:23
  Speaker 1: his manners. He was no sooner at large than he
• 4:09:27
  Speaker 1: commenced footpad and, in company with another man, robbed a
• 4:09:31
  Speaker 1: gentleman in Chelsea Fields of four guineas. After this he
• 4:09:36
  Speaker 1: connected himself with John Dyer and James Butler, in concert
• 4:09:40
  Speaker 1: with whom he committed a variety of robberies. Their plan
• 4:09:45
  Speaker 1: was to go out together, but one only to attack
• 4:09:48
  Speaker 1: the party intended to be robbed, but to give a
• 4:09:51
  Speaker 1: signal for his accomplices to come up if any resistance
• 4:09:54
  Speaker 1: should be made. After committing a variety of robberies in
• 4:09:58
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood of London, they joined in a scheme with
• 4:10:02
  Speaker 1: four other villains to rob Lady Chudley between Hyde Park
• 4:10:06
  Speaker 1: Corner and Kensington, but her Ladyship's footmen shot one of
• 4:10:10
  Speaker 1: the gang, named Rice through the head, which prevented the
• 4:10:14
  Speaker 1: intended depredation. Their robberies had now been so numerous that
• 4:10:20
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood of London became unsafe for them. Wherefore they
• 4:10:24
  Speaker 1: went on the Portsmouth Road, where they committed a variety
• 4:10:27
  Speaker 1: of robberies and even proceeded to the perpetration of murder
• 4:10:34
  Speaker 1: with a view to prevent detection. Meeting mister Bunch, a
• 4:10:38
  Speaker 1: farmer near a wood on the road side, they robbed
• 4:10:41
  Speaker 1: him of his money, and then dragging him into the wood,
• 4:10:45
  Speaker 1: they stripped him and deuce, firing at him with a pistol.
• 4:10:48
  Speaker 1: The ball lodged in his mouth. They now imagined the
• 4:10:52
  Speaker 1: man was dead and were about to depart when mister
• 4:10:55
  Speaker 1: Bunch turning, Butler loaded another pistol in order to despatch him,
• 4:11:01
  Speaker 1: on which he begged that they would yet spare his life,
• 4:11:05
  Speaker 1: But finding that they entertained no sentiments of compassion, he
• 4:11:09
  Speaker 1: exerted all his strength, and, springing on his legs, ran
• 4:11:13
  Speaker 1: off and alarming the inhabitants of an adjacent village. Immediate
• 4:11:17
  Speaker 1: pursuit was made after the villains, all of whom were apprehended,
• 4:11:22
  Speaker 1: except us, who escaped and got to London. Darker Wide
• 4:11:26
  Speaker 1: and Meads. Three of the gang were hanged at Winchester,
• 4:11:30
  Speaker 1: but Butler was sent to take his trial at the
• 4:11:33
  Speaker 1: Old Bailey for robberies committed in the County of Middlesex.
• 4:11:38
  Speaker 1: James Butler was the son of reputable parents of the
• 4:11:41
  Speaker 1: parish of Saint Anne Soho and apprenticed to a silversmith,
• 4:11:46
  Speaker 1: but being of an ungovernable disposition, his parents were obliged
• 4:11:50
  Speaker 1: to send him to sea. After making several voyages as
• 4:11:54
  Speaker 1: an apprentice to the captain, he ran away from the
• 4:11:57
  Speaker 1: ship at Boston, New England, and went to New York,
• 4:12:01
  Speaker 1: where he entered on board another ship, from which he
• 4:12:04
  Speaker 1: likewise ran away and embarked on a third vessel bound
• 4:12:09
  Speaker 1: to Martinico, but he also quitted this on a dispute
• 4:12:15
  Speaker 1: with the captain, and then sailed to Jamaica, where he
• 4:12:18
  Speaker 1: was impressed into the Royal Navy and served under the
• 4:12:22
  Speaker 1: celebrated Admiral Vernon. On his return to England, he married
• 4:12:26
  Speaker 1: a girl of Wapping, and, having soon spent the little
• 4:12:29
  Speaker 1: money he brought home with him, he engaged with the
• 4:12:33
  Speaker 1: gang we have mentioned, with whom he was likewise concerned
• 4:12:37
  Speaker 1: in several robberies. These appeared to have been very desperate villains.
• 4:12:42
  Speaker 1: On the road to Gravesend, they stopped four gentlemen, who,
• 4:12:45
  Speaker 1: refusing to be robbed Meads. One of those hanged at Winchester,
• 4:12:50
  Speaker 1: shot a servant who attended them in the breast, so
• 4:12:53
  Speaker 1: that he died in a few days. Disappointed of their
• 4:12:56
  Speaker 1: booty in this attempt, their passions were so irritated that,
• 4:13:00
  Speaker 1: meeting a gentleman on horseback, they fired and wounded him
• 4:13:04
  Speaker 1: in the head and the breast, and the next day
• 4:13:06
  Speaker 1: he expired. They committed other robberies attended with circumstances of cruelty,
• 4:13:12
  Speaker 1: but it will be now proper to mention those for
• 4:13:15
  Speaker 1: which they suffered Butler, having been acquitted at the Old
• 4:13:19
  Speaker 1: Bailey of the crime for which he had been transmitted
• 4:13:22
  Speaker 1: from Winchester, he and Deuce and Dyer immediately renewed their
• 4:13:26
  Speaker 1: depredations on the road. Meeting with mister Holmes near Buckingham House,
• 4:13:31
  Speaker 1: they robbed him of his money, hat and handkerchief, which
• 4:13:34
  Speaker 1: laid the foundation of one of the indictments against them.
• 4:13:38
  Speaker 1: On the following evening, they stopped a Hackney coachman near
• 4:13:42
  Speaker 1: Hampstead and robbed him of nine shillings, after the coachman
• 4:13:46
  Speaker 1: had told them that the words stand and deliver were
• 4:13:49
  Speaker 1: sufficient to hang a man. Jonathan Wilde, being informed of
• 4:13:53
  Speaker 1: these robberies, caused the offenders to be apprehended at a
• 4:13:57
  Speaker 1: house kept by Duce's sister Dire being admitted in evidence,
• 4:14:02
  Speaker 1: Deuce and Butler were brought to their trial when the
• 4:14:05
  Speaker 1: latter pleaded guilty to both the indictments, and the former,
• 4:14:09
  Speaker 1: after spending some time in denying the robberies and arraigning
• 4:14:13
  Speaker 1: the conduct of Jonathan Wilde, was found guilty, and both
• 4:14:16
  Speaker 1: of them received sentence of death. After conviction, their behavior
• 4:14:21
  Speaker 1: was more resigned and devout than could have been expected
• 4:14:25
  Speaker 1: from men whose repeated crimes might be supposed to have
• 4:14:29
  Speaker 1: hardened their hearts, but death appeared to them in all
• 4:14:33
  Speaker 1: its horrors. Butler was a Roman Catholic and deuce of Protestant.
• 4:14:38
  Speaker 1: The latter was urged by the ordinary to discover the
• 4:14:40
  Speaker 1: names of some of his old accomplices, but this he
• 4:14:44
  Speaker 1: refused to do, because they had left their practices and
• 4:14:48
  Speaker 1: lived honest lives. A few moments before they were launched
• 4:14:52
  Speaker 1: into eternity, Butler declared that the circumstances of cruelty with
• 4:14:56
  Speaker 1: which their crimes had been attended gave him more pain
• 4:15:00
  Speaker 1: than the thoughts of death, and dus acknowledged the enormity
• 4:15:05
  Speaker 1: of his offenses and begged the forgiveness of all he
• 4:15:08
  Speaker 1: had injured. They were hanged at Tyburn on the fourteenth
• 4:15:13
  Speaker 1: of August seventeen twenty three. The Life and Transactions of
• 4:15:17
  Speaker 1: Humphrey Anngoers, who was hanged for robbery. This offender was
• 4:15:22
  Speaker 1: a native of Ireland and born near Dublin, but his parents,
• 4:15:26
  Speaker 1: removing to Cork, put him apprentice to a cooper in
• 4:15:29
  Speaker 1: that city. He had not been long in this situation
• 4:15:33
  Speaker 1: before his master desired to get rid of him on
• 4:15:36
  Speaker 1: account of his untoward disposition. Being discharged from his service,
• 4:15:41
  Speaker 1: he lived the life of a vagabond for two years,
• 4:15:44
  Speaker 1: and his father, apprehending that he would come to a
• 4:15:46
  Speaker 1: fatal end, brought him to England in the eighteenth year
• 4:15:50
  Speaker 1: of his age. Still, however, he continued his dissipated course
• 4:15:55
  Speaker 1: of life till, having gotten considerably in debt, he enlisted
• 4:15:59
  Speaker 1: for his soldier to avoid being lodged in prison. As
• 4:16:03
  Speaker 1: this happened in the year seventeen fifteen, he was sent
• 4:16:06
  Speaker 1: to Scotland to oppose the rebels, but robbing a farmer
• 4:16:10
  Speaker 1: in that country, he was punished by receiving five hundred
• 4:16:13
  Speaker 1: lashes in consequence of the sentence of a court martial.
• 4:16:18
  Speaker 1: The rebellion being ended, Azure came to London and obtained
• 4:16:23
  Speaker 1: his discharge. Here he became acquainted with William Duce mentioned
• 4:16:28
  Speaker 1: in the preceding article, and married a sister of Duce
• 4:16:31
  Speaker 1: at an ale house in the verge of the fleet.
• 4:16:35
  Speaker 1: After this he enlisted for a soldier, and the regiment
• 4:16:38
  Speaker 1: being ordered to Vigo, he took his wife with him,
• 4:16:42
  Speaker 1: and when the greater part of the Spaniards had abandoned
• 4:16:44
  Speaker 1: the place, Azure obtained a considerable sum by plunder. On
• 4:16:49
  Speaker 1: his return to England, he became acquainted with Butler's associates
• 4:16:53
  Speaker 1: and concerned with them in several of their lawless depredations,
• 4:16:57
  Speaker 1: but refused to have any share in acts of barbarity.
• 4:17:01
  Speaker 1: Ager now kept a house of ill fame, which was
• 4:17:05
  Speaker 1: resorted to by other thieves, And one night, after they
• 4:17:09
  Speaker 1: had been out on one of their exploits, one Meads,
• 4:17:13
  Speaker 1: whose name we have before recorded, told the following horrid
• 4:17:17
  Speaker 1: tale quote. We have been out, and the best fun
• 4:17:22
  Speaker 1: of all was an engagement with a smock faced shoemaker,
• 4:17:27
  Speaker 1: whom we met on the Kentish road. We asked him
• 4:17:30
  Speaker 1: how far he was going, and he said he was
• 4:17:33
  Speaker 1: just married and going home to see his relations. After
• 4:17:38
  Speaker 1: a little more discourse, we persuaded him to turn a
• 4:17:41
  Speaker 1: little out of the road to look for a bird's nest.
• 4:17:45
  Speaker 1: But as soon as we got him a little out
• 4:17:47
  Speaker 1: of the road, we bound and gagged him, after which
• 4:17:51
  Speaker 1: we robbed him and were going away, but I, being
• 4:17:56
  Speaker 1: in a merry humor, wanted to have a little diversion,
• 4:17:59
  Speaker 1: turned about with my pistol and shot him through the head.
• 4:18:04
  Speaker 1: Bad as anger was in other respects, he was shocked
• 4:18:08
  Speaker 1: at this story and told his companions that there was
• 4:18:12
  Speaker 1: no courage and cruelty, and from that time refused to
• 4:18:15
  Speaker 1: drink with any of them. After this, Angers kept the
• 4:18:19
  Speaker 1: house of ill Fame near charing Cross, letting lodgings to
• 4:18:23
  Speaker 1: thieves and receiving stolen goods. While in this way of life,
• 4:18:29
  Speaker 1: he went to see an execution at Tyburn and did
• 4:18:32
  Speaker 1: not return till four o'clock the next morning, and in
• 4:18:36
  Speaker 1: his absence an incident arose, which was attended with some
• 4:18:40
  Speaker 1: troublesome consequences. A Dutch woman, meeting with a gentleman in
• 4:18:44
  Speaker 1: the street, conducted him to Anger's house, where he drank
• 4:18:48
  Speaker 1: so freely that he fell asleep when the woman robbed
• 4:18:51
  Speaker 1: him of his watch and money and made her escape.
• 4:18:55
  Speaker 1: The gentleman, awakening when Anger returned, charged him with the robbery,
• 4:19:00
  Speaker 1: and in consequence of which he was committed to prison,
• 4:19:03
  Speaker 1: but soon afterwards discharged, the grand jury not finding the
• 4:19:07
  Speaker 1: bill against him. Not long after he got free from
• 4:19:11
  Speaker 1: this trouble, his wife was indicted for robbing a gentleman
• 4:19:14
  Speaker 1: of his watch and a guinea, but had the good
• 4:19:17
  Speaker 1: fortune to be acquitted in defect of evidence. The following
• 4:19:21
  Speaker 1: accident happened about the same time. A woman named Turner
• 4:19:26
  Speaker 1: had drank so much at Azer's house that he conducted
• 4:19:30
  Speaker 1: her up to bed, but while he was in the
• 4:19:33
  Speaker 1: room with her, his wife entered like a fury, demanding
• 4:19:36
  Speaker 1: how Turner could presume to keep company with her husband,
• 4:19:40
  Speaker 1: attacked and beat the woman. William Duce, being in the house,
• 4:19:45
  Speaker 1: went up to interfere, but the disturbance was by this
• 4:19:49
  Speaker 1: time so great that it was necessary to send for
• 4:19:52
  Speaker 1: a constable. The officer no sooner arrived than missus. Turner
• 4:19:57
  Speaker 1: charged Azure and his wife with robbing her, on which
• 4:20:00
  Speaker 1: they were taken into custody and committed, but when they
• 4:20:04
  Speaker 1: were brought to trial, they were acquitted as there was
• 4:20:07
  Speaker 1: no proof of any robbery, to the satisfaction of the jury. Dyer,
• 4:20:12
  Speaker 1: who was evidence against Deuce and Butler, as mentioned in
• 4:20:15
  Speaker 1: the preceding narrative, lived at this time with Anger as
• 4:20:19
  Speaker 1: a waiter, and the master and man used occasionally to
• 4:20:23
  Speaker 1: commit footpad robberies together, for which they were several times
• 4:20:29
  Speaker 1: apprehended and tried at the Old Bailey, but acquitted because
• 4:20:34
  Speaker 1: the prosecutors could not swear to their persons. Azure's character
• 4:20:38
  Speaker 1: now grew so notorious that no person of common decency
• 4:20:42
  Speaker 1: would be seen in his house, and the expenses attending
• 4:20:46
  Speaker 1: his repeated prosecutions were so great that from these united
• 4:20:50
  Speaker 1: causes he was compelled to decline business. After this, however,
• 4:20:55
  Speaker 1: he kept a gin shop in Short's Garden's Drury Lane,
• 4:21:00
  Speaker 1: and this house was frequented by company of the same
• 4:21:03
  Speaker 1: kind as those he had formerly entertained, and among the
• 4:21:07
  Speaker 1: rest Parson Lindsay. Lindsey, having prevailed on a gentleman to
• 4:21:12
  Speaker 1: go to this house, made him drunk and then robbed
• 4:21:15
  Speaker 1: him of several valuable articles, but procuring himself to be
• 4:21:20
  Speaker 1: admitted an evidence, charged Angers and his wife with the robbery,
• 4:21:25
  Speaker 1: but they had again the good fortune to escape, because
• 4:21:28
  Speaker 1: the character of Lindsey was by this time so infamous
• 4:21:32
  Speaker 1: that the court and jury paid no regard to anything
• 4:21:35
  Speaker 1: that he said. Not long after this, missus Anger was
• 4:21:39
  Speaker 1: transported for picking a gentleman's pocket, and her husband was
• 4:21:44
  Speaker 1: convicted on two capital indictments, the one for robbing mister Lewin,
• 4:21:49
  Speaker 1: the City Marshal, near Hornsey, of ten guineas and some silver,
• 4:21:54
  Speaker 1: and the other for robbing a wagoner near Knightsbridge. On
• 4:21:59
  Speaker 1: both these Trialsal's dire, who was connected in the robberies,
• 4:22:03
  Speaker 1: was admitted in evidence against anger. After conviction, Azur was
• 4:22:08
  Speaker 1: visited by numbers of persons whose pockets had been picked
• 4:22:12
  Speaker 1: of valuable articles, in hopes of getting some intelligence of
• 4:22:15
  Speaker 1: the property they had lost. But he told them that
• 4:22:18
  Speaker 1: he was never guilty of such mean actions as picking
• 4:22:22
  Speaker 1: of pockets, and he said that none of his associates
• 4:22:25
  Speaker 1: ever followed this practice, but one Hugh Kelly, was transported
• 4:22:29
  Speaker 1: for robbing a woman of a shroud which he was
• 4:22:32
  Speaker 1: carrying home to cover her deceased husband. Azur's father died
• 4:22:37
  Speaker 1: of a broken heart soon after he heard of his commitment.
• 4:22:41
  Speaker 1: While under sentence of death, he behaved with great penitence
• 4:22:45
  Speaker 1: confessed his crimes. He said he had never been happy
• 4:22:49
  Speaker 1: in the commission of them, and expressed a willingness to
• 4:22:52
  Speaker 1: die as what he hoped might be a compensation for
• 4:22:56
  Speaker 1: his sins. He was executed at Tyburn on the ninth
• 4:23:00
  Speaker 1: of September seventeen twenty three. Just before he was turned off,
• 4:23:05
  Speaker 1: advised young people to be obedient to their parents, as
• 4:23:08
  Speaker 1: a failure in that important duty was the first step
• 4:23:12
  Speaker 1: to his destruction. Account of Richard Parvin, Edward Elliott, Robert Kingshill,
• 4:23:18
  Speaker 1: Henry Marshall, Edward Pink, John Pink, and John Ansell, commonly
• 4:23:24
  Speaker 1: called the Waltham Blacks, who were hanged for murder. The
• 4:23:30
  Speaker 1: action of these offenders became so much the object of
• 4:23:32
  Speaker 1: public notice that it was deemed proper to frame a
• 4:23:36
  Speaker 1: particular Act of Parliament in order to bring them to justice.
• 4:23:41
  Speaker 1: Having blackened their faces, they went in the daytime to
• 4:23:45
  Speaker 1: the parks of the nobility and gentry, whence they repeatedly
• 4:23:49
  Speaker 1: stole deer, and at length murdered the Bishop of Winchester's
• 4:23:53
  Speaker 1: keeper on Waltham Chaise. And from the name of the
• 4:23:57
  Speaker 1: place and their blackening their faces, they obtained the name
• 4:24:01
  Speaker 1: of the Waltham Blacks. The following is the substance of
• 4:24:06
  Speaker 1: the Act of Parliament on which they were convicted. Any
• 4:24:12
  Speaker 1: person appearing in any forest, chaise, park, and et cetera,
• 4:24:17
  Speaker 1: or in any high road, open heath, common or down,
• 4:24:21
  Speaker 1: with offensive weapons, and having his face blacked or otherwise disguised,
• 4:24:27
  Speaker 1: or unlawfully and wilfully hunting, wounding, killing or stealing any
• 4:24:33
  Speaker 1: red or fallow deer, or unlawfully robbing any warren and
• 4:24:38
  Speaker 1: et cetera, or stealing any fish out of any river
• 4:24:42
  Speaker 1: or pond, or whether armed and disguised or not, breaking
• 4:24:47
  Speaker 1: down the head or mound of any fish pond, whereby
• 4:24:50
  Speaker 1: the fish may be lost or destroyed, Or unlawfully and
• 4:24:54
  Speaker 1: maliciously killing, maiming, or wounding any cattle, or cutting down
• 4:25:00
  Speaker 1: or otherwise destroying any trees planted in any avenue, or
• 4:25:05
  Speaker 1: growing in any garden orchard or plantation for ornament, shelter
• 4:25:10
  Speaker 1: or profit, or setting fire to any house, barn or outhouse, hovel, cock, mow,
• 4:25:20
  Speaker 1: or stand of corn, straw, hay, or wood, or maliciously
• 4:25:25
  Speaker 1: shooting any person in any dwelling house or other place,
• 4:25:29
  Speaker 1: or knowingly sending any letter without any name, or signed
• 4:25:34
  Speaker 1: with a fictitious name, demanding money, venison, or other valuable thing,
• 4:25:39
  Speaker 1: or forcibly rescuing any person being in custody for any
• 4:25:45
  Speaker 1: of the offenses before mentioned, or procuring any person by
• 4:25:49
  Speaker 1: gift or promise of money or other reward to join
• 4:25:53
  Speaker 1: in any such unlawful act, or concealing or succoring such offenders,
• 4:25:59
  Speaker 1: when by order of counsel and et cetera, required to surrender,
• 4:26:04
  Speaker 1: shall suffer death end the offense of deer stealing was
• 4:26:08
  Speaker 1: formerly only a misdemeanor at common law, but the Act
• 4:26:12
  Speaker 1: of Parliament above mentioned has been rendered perpetual by a
• 4:26:16
  Speaker 1: subsequent statute. It therefore behooves people to be cautious that
• 4:26:22
  Speaker 1: they do not endanger their lives while they think they
• 4:26:25
  Speaker 1: are committing what they may deem an inferior offense. We
• 4:26:29
  Speaker 1: will now give such particulars as we have been able
• 4:26:32
  Speaker 1: to obtain respecting the malefactors in question. Richard Parvin was
• 4:26:38
  Speaker 1: heretofore the master of a public house in Portsmouth, which
• 4:26:42
  Speaker 1: he kept with reputation for a considerable time, till he
• 4:26:46
  Speaker 1: was imprudent enough to engage with the gang of ruffians
• 4:26:50
  Speaker 1: who practiced the robbing of noblemen's and gentlemen's parks through
• 4:26:53
  Speaker 1: the country. The reader is already apprized that it was
• 4:26:58
  Speaker 1: the custom of these fellows to go disguised. Now, a
• 4:27:02
  Speaker 1: servant maid of Parvins, having left his house during his absence,
• 4:27:06
  Speaker 1: had repaired to an ale house in the country, and
• 4:27:10
  Speaker 1: Parvin calling there on his return from one of his
• 4:27:13
  Speaker 1: dishonest expeditions, the girl discovered him, and, in consequence of
• 4:27:18
  Speaker 1: which he was committed to Winchester jail by the Mayor
• 4:27:21
  Speaker 1: of Portsmouth till his removal to London for trial. Edward
• 4:27:26
  Speaker 1: Eliot was apprenticed to a tailor at Guildford, and was
• 4:27:30
  Speaker 1: very young when he engaged with the gang, whose orders
• 4:27:33
  Speaker 1: he implicitly obeyed till the following circumstance occasioned his leaving them.
• 4:27:39
  Speaker 1: Having met with two countrymen who refused to enter into
• 4:27:42
  Speaker 1: the society, they dug holes in the ground and placed
• 4:27:45
  Speaker 1: the unhappy man in them up to their chins, and
• 4:27:50
  Speaker 1: had they not been relieved by persons who accidentally saw them,
• 4:27:54
  Speaker 1: they must have perished. Shocked by this deed, Eliot left
• 4:27:58
  Speaker 1: them and for some time served a lady as a footman.
• 4:28:03
  Speaker 1: But on the day the keeper was murdered, he casually
• 4:28:06
  Speaker 1: met them in the fields, and on their promise that
• 4:28:09
  Speaker 1: no harm should attend him, he unhappily consented to bear
• 4:28:13
  Speaker 1: them company. Having provided themselves with pistols and blackened their
• 4:28:18
  Speaker 1: faces with gunpowder. They proceeded to their lawless depredations, and
• 4:28:23
  Speaker 1: while the rest of the gang were killing of deer,
• 4:28:26
  Speaker 1: Eliot went in search of a fawn. But while he
• 4:28:29
  Speaker 1: was looking for it, the keeper and his assistants came
• 4:28:33
  Speaker 1: up and took him into custody. His associates were near
• 4:28:37
  Speaker 1: enough to see what happened, and immediately coming to his assistance.
• 4:28:41
  Speaker 1: A violent affray ensued, in which the keeper was shot
• 4:28:44
  Speaker 1: by Henry Marshall, so that he died on the spot,
• 4:28:48
  Speaker 1: and Eliot made his escape, but he was soon afterwards
• 4:28:53
  Speaker 1: taken into custody and lodged in the jail of Guildford.
• 4:28:57
  Speaker 1: Robert Kingshill, who was a native of Farnhum in Surrey,
• 4:29:01
  Speaker 1: was placed by his parents with a shoemaker, but being
• 4:29:04
  Speaker 1: too idle to follow the profession, he was guilty of
• 4:29:07
  Speaker 1: many acts of irregularity before he associated himself with the
• 4:29:12
  Speaker 1: wall from Blacks, with whom he afterwards suffered. While he
• 4:29:16
  Speaker 1: was in bed on the night preceding the fatal murder,
• 4:29:20
  Speaker 1: one of the gang awakened him by knocking at his window,
• 4:29:24
  Speaker 1: on which he arose, and went with him to join
• 4:29:26
  Speaker 1: the rest of the deer stealers. Henry Marshall was a
• 4:29:30
  Speaker 1: man distinguished for his strength and agility. We have no
• 4:29:34
  Speaker 1: account of the place of his birth or the manner
• 4:29:36
  Speaker 1: of his education, but it is reasonable to think that
• 4:29:40
  Speaker 1: the latter was of the inferior kind since he appears
• 4:29:43
  Speaker 1: to have been chiefly distinguished by his skill in the
• 4:29:47
  Speaker 1: vulgar science of bruising. He was once the occasion of
• 4:29:51
  Speaker 1: apprehending a highwayman who had robbed a coach by giving
• 4:29:55
  Speaker 1: him a single blow which broke his arm. He seems
• 4:29:59
  Speaker 1: to have been one of the most daring of the
• 4:30:01
  Speaker 1: Waltham Blacks, and was the man who shot the chaise keeper.
• 4:30:05
  Speaker 1: As above mentioned, Edward Pink and John Pink were brothers
• 4:30:10
  Speaker 1: who spent the former part of their lives as carters
• 4:30:13
  Speaker 1: at Portsmouth, and had maintained the character of honest men
• 4:30:18
  Speaker 1: till they became weak enough to join the desperate gang
• 4:30:21
  Speaker 1: of deer stealers. It now remains to speak only of
• 4:30:25
  Speaker 1: James Ansell, who likewise lived in Portsmouth. We are not
• 4:30:29
  Speaker 1: informed in what way he had originally supported himself, but
• 4:30:34
  Speaker 1: for some years before he joined the desperate gang above mentioned,
• 4:30:37
  Speaker 1: he was a highwayman and had been connected with the
• 4:30:41
  Speaker 1: Waltham Blacks about two years before the commission of the
• 4:30:44
  Speaker 1: murder which cost them their lives. By a vigilant exertion
• 4:30:49
  Speaker 1: of civil power, all the above mentioned defenders were taken
• 4:30:53
  Speaker 1: into custody and at being thought prudent to bring them
• 4:30:57
  Speaker 1: to trial in London. They removed thither under a strong
• 4:31:01
  Speaker 1: guard enlarged. At Newgate on the thirteenth of November seventeen
• 4:31:07
  Speaker 1: twenty three, they were brought to their trial in the
• 4:31:10
  Speaker 1: Court of King's Bench, and, being convicted on the clearest evidence,
• 4:31:15
  Speaker 1: were found guilty and sentenced to die, and it was
• 4:31:19
  Speaker 1: immediately ordered that they should suffer on the fourth of
• 4:31:22
  Speaker 1: the next month. One circumstance was very remarkable. On this occasion.
• 4:31:28
  Speaker 1: The judge had no sooner pronounced the sentence than Henry Marshall.
• 4:31:32
  Speaker 1: The man who had shot the keeper, was immediately deprived
• 4:31:36
  Speaker 1: of the use of his tongue, nor did he recover
• 4:31:39
  Speaker 1: his speech till the day before his death. After passing
• 4:31:43
  Speaker 1: solemn sentence, the convicts behaved in a manner equally devout
• 4:31:48
  Speaker 1: and resigned, were regular in their devotions, and prepared themselves
• 4:31:52
  Speaker 1: for eternity with every mark of unfeigned contrition. They received
• 4:31:57
  Speaker 1: the sacrament before they left Newgate, acknowledged the justice of
• 4:32:01
  Speaker 1: the sentence against them, and said they had been guilty
• 4:32:05
  Speaker 1: of many crimes besides that for which they were to suffer.
• 4:32:09
  Speaker 1: At the place of execution, they were so dejected as
• 4:32:13
  Speaker 1: to be unable to address the populace, but they again
• 4:32:16
  Speaker 1: confessed their sins recommended their souls to God, beseeching his
• 4:32:20
  Speaker 1: mercy through the merits of Christ. With the utmost fervency
• 4:32:24
  Speaker 1: of devotion. These malefactors were hanged at Tyburn on the
• 4:32:29
  Speaker 1: fourth of December seventeen twenty three, the end of Part
• 4:32:34
  Speaker 1: nine particulars respecting John Stanley, who was hanged for murder.
• 4:32:40
  Speaker 1: Mister Stanley was the son of an officer in the army,
• 4:32:43
  Speaker 1: and was born in the year sixteen ninety at Duce
• 4:32:46
  Speaker 1: Hall in Essex, a seat that belonged to mister Palmer,
• 4:32:50
  Speaker 1: who was his uncle by the mother's side. Young Stanley
• 4:32:54
  Speaker 1: being the favorite of his father, the latter began to
• 4:32:57
  Speaker 1: teach him the art of fencing when he was no
• 4:33:00
  Speaker 1: more than five years of age, and other officers likewise
• 4:33:03
  Speaker 1: practicing the same art with him. He became a kind
• 4:33:07
  Speaker 1: of master of the sword when he was but a
• 4:33:09
  Speaker 1: mere boy. For to stimulate his courage, it was common
• 4:33:14
  Speaker 1: for those who fenced with him to give him wine
• 4:33:17
  Speaker 1: or other strong liquors. In consequence of this treatment, the
• 4:33:20
  Speaker 1: boy grew daring and insolent, beyond expression. And at length
• 4:33:24
  Speaker 1: behaved with so uncommon a degree of audacity that his
• 4:33:28
  Speaker 1: father deemed him a singular character of bravery. While he
• 4:33:32
  Speaker 1: was very young, mister Stanley, being ordered to join his
• 4:33:36
  Speaker 1: regiment in Spain, took his son with him, and in
• 4:33:40
  Speaker 1: that country he was the spectator of several engagements, but
• 4:33:45
  Speaker 1: his principal delight was in trampling on the bodies of
• 4:33:48
  Speaker 1: the deceased. After the battles were ended. From Spain, the
• 4:33:52
  Speaker 1: elder Stanley was ordered to Ireland, whither he took his son,
• 4:33:56
  Speaker 1: and there procured for him an ensign's commission. But the
• 4:34:00
  Speaker 1: young gentleman, habituating himself to extravagant company, spent much more
• 4:34:05
  Speaker 1: money than the produce of his commission, which he soon
• 4:34:09
  Speaker 1: sold and then returned to England. The father was greatly
• 4:34:13
  Speaker 1: mortified at this proceeding, and advised him to make application
• 4:34:17
  Speaker 1: to General Stanhope, who had been a warm friend of
• 4:34:20
  Speaker 1: the family. But this advice was lost on the young fellow,
• 4:34:24
  Speaker 1: who abandoned himself to the most desolute course of life,
• 4:34:28
  Speaker 1: borrowed money of all his acquaintance, which he soon squandered
• 4:34:31
  Speaker 1: at the gaming tables, and procured further supplies from women
• 4:34:36
  Speaker 1: with whom he made illicit connections. He was so vain
• 4:34:40
  Speaker 1: of his acquaintance with the ladies that he boasted of
• 4:34:43
  Speaker 1: their favors as an argument in proof of his own accomplishments.
• 4:34:48
  Speaker 1: Though what he might obtain from the weakness of one
• 4:34:51
  Speaker 1: woman he commonly squandered on others of more abandoned character.
• 4:34:56
  Speaker 1: One mode which he took to supply his extravagance was
• 4:34:59
  Speaker 1: to enter reduce himself into the company of young gentlemen
• 4:35:03
  Speaker 1: who were but little acquainted with the vices of the age,
• 4:35:06
  Speaker 1: whom he assisted in wasting their fortunes in every species
• 4:35:11
  Speaker 1: of scantless dissipation. At length, after a scene of a
• 4:35:16
  Speaker 1: riot in London, he went with one of his associates
• 4:35:19
  Speaker 1: to Flanders, and thence to Paris, and Stanley boasted not
• 4:35:23
  Speaker 1: a little of his favors he received among the French ladies,
• 4:35:27
  Speaker 1: and of the improvements he made in the science of fencing.
• 4:35:32
  Speaker 1: On his return to England. The opinion he conceived of
• 4:35:35
  Speaker 1: his skill in the use of the sword made him
• 4:35:38
  Speaker 1: insufferably vain, and presuming he would frequently intrude himself into
• 4:35:43
  Speaker 1: company at a tavern, and saying he was come to
• 4:35:47
  Speaker 1: make himself welcome, would sit down at the table without
• 4:35:50
  Speaker 1: farther ceremony. The company would sometimes bear with his insolence
• 4:35:55
  Speaker 1: for the sake of peace. But when this was the case,
• 4:35:59
  Speaker 1: it was a chance if he did not pretend to
• 4:36:02
  Speaker 1: have received some affront, and, drawing his sword, walk off
• 4:36:06
  Speaker 1: while the company was in confusion. It was not always, however,
• 4:36:11
  Speaker 1: that matters thus ended, for sometimes a gentleman of spirit
• 4:36:15
  Speaker 1: would take the liberty of kicking our hero out of
• 4:36:18
  Speaker 1: the house. It will now be proper to mention something
• 4:36:22
  Speaker 1: of his connection with Missus Maycock, the murder of whom
• 4:36:25
  Speaker 1: cost him his life. As he was returning from a
• 4:36:29
  Speaker 1: gaming house which he frequented in Covent Garden, he met
• 4:36:33
  Speaker 1: a mister Bryant of Newgate Street and his sister, Missus Maycock,
• 4:36:37
  Speaker 1: the wife of a mercer of Ludgate Hill. Stanley rudely
• 4:36:41
  Speaker 1: ran against the man and embraced the woman, on which
• 4:36:45
  Speaker 1: quarrel arose. But this subsiding, Stanley insisted on seeing the
• 4:36:50
  Speaker 1: party's home. This he did, and spent the evening with him,
• 4:36:55
  Speaker 1: And from this circumstance a fatal connection arose, as will
• 4:36:59
  Speaker 1: appear in the sequel. Stanley, having made an acquaintance with
• 4:37:03
  Speaker 1: the family. Soon afterwards met Missus Maycock at the house
• 4:37:07
  Speaker 1: of her elation in red Lion Street, Holborn. In a
• 4:37:11
  Speaker 1: short time mister Maycock removing into Southwark. The visits of
• 4:37:15
  Speaker 1: our captain were admitted on a footing of intimacy, the
• 4:37:19
  Speaker 1: husband dying Soon after this connection. Stanley became more at
• 4:37:23
  Speaker 1: liberty to pay his addresses to the widow, and it
• 4:37:26
  Speaker 1: appears that some considerable intimacy subsisted between them. From the
• 4:37:31
  Speaker 1: following letter, which is not more a proof of the
• 4:37:35
  Speaker 1: absurd vanity of the man that could write it than
• 4:37:39
  Speaker 1: of the woman that could keep him company after receiving it.
• 4:37:43
  Speaker 1: The egregious Coxcomb and supercilious flatterer is visible in every line.
• 4:37:51
  Speaker 1: I am tomorrow to be at the opera. Oh that
• 4:37:54
  Speaker 1: I could add with her I love the opera, were
• 4:37:58
  Speaker 1: beauty's less beauty least than thou sit panting, admired and
• 4:38:04
  Speaker 1: taste the sweet barbarian sounds. On Friday, I shall be
• 4:38:09
  Speaker 1: at the masquerade at Somerset House, where modest pleasure hides
• 4:38:15
  Speaker 1: itself before it will be touched. But though it is
• 4:38:18
  Speaker 1: uncertain in the shape, tis real in the sense. For
• 4:38:23
  Speaker 1: masks scorn to steal and not repay. Therefore, as they
• 4:38:28
  Speaker 1: conceal the face, they oft make the body the better known.
• 4:38:33
  Speaker 1: At this end of town, many faded beauties bid the
• 4:38:37
  Speaker 1: olios and the brush kiss their cheeks and lips till
• 4:38:42
  Speaker 1: their charms only glimmer with a borrowed grace, so that
• 4:38:47
  Speaker 1: a city beauty, rich in her native spring of simplicity
• 4:38:50
  Speaker 1: and loveliness, will doubly shine with us, shine like the
• 4:38:55
  Speaker 1: innocent morning blush of light that glitters untainted on the gardens.
• 4:39:02
  Speaker 1: This exquisite piece of nonsense flattered the vanity of the lady,
• 4:39:06
  Speaker 1: so that he was admitted to repeat his visits at
• 4:39:09
  Speaker 1: his own convenience. At this time, a young fellow who
• 4:39:13
  Speaker 1: had served his apprenticeship with the late mister Maycock, and
• 4:39:17
  Speaker 1: who was possessed of a decent fortune to begin the world,
• 4:39:21
  Speaker 1: paid his addresses to the young widow, but she preferred
• 4:39:24
  Speaker 1: the licentious life with Stanley to a more virtuous connection.
• 4:39:29
  Speaker 1: Soon after this she quitted her house in southok and
• 4:39:33
  Speaker 1: the lovers spent their time at balls, plays and assemblies
• 4:39:37
  Speaker 1: till her money was dissipated. When he did not scruple
• 4:39:40
  Speaker 1: to insinuate that she had been too liberal of her
• 4:39:43
  Speaker 1: favors to other persons. In the meantime, she bore him
• 4:39:48
  Speaker 1: three children, one of whom was living at the time
• 4:39:51
  Speaker 1: of the father's execution. Stanley continuing his dissolute course of life.
• 4:39:57
  Speaker 1: His parents became very uneasy and fear of the fatal
• 4:40:01
  Speaker 1: consequences that might ensue, and his father, who saw too
• 4:40:06
  Speaker 1: late the wrong bias he had given to his education,
• 4:40:10
  Speaker 1: procured him the commission of a lieutenant to go to
• 4:40:14
  Speaker 1: Cape Coast Castle in the service of the Africa Company.
• 4:40:18
  Speaker 1: The young fellow seemed so pleased with disappointment that his
• 4:40:22
  Speaker 1: friends conceived great hopes that he would reform. Preparations being
• 4:40:27
  Speaker 1: made for his voyage, and the company having advanced a
• 4:40:30
  Speaker 1: considerable sum, he went to Portsmouth in order to embark,
• 4:40:35
  Speaker 1: But he had been only a few days in that
• 4:40:37
  Speaker 1: town when he was followed by Missus Maycock with their
• 4:40:41
  Speaker 1: infant child. She reproached him with baseness in first debauching
• 4:40:46
  Speaker 1: and then leaving her to starve, and employing all the
• 4:40:50
  Speaker 1: arts she was mistress of to divert him from his resolution.
• 4:40:54
  Speaker 1: He gave her half the money which belonged to the company,
• 4:40:58
  Speaker 1: and followed her to London, with the rest shocked with
• 4:41:02
  Speaker 1: the news of this dishonorable action, the father took to
• 4:41:05
  Speaker 1: his bed and died of grief. Young Stanley appeared greatly
• 4:41:09
  Speaker 1: grieved at this event, and to divert his chagrin, he
• 4:41:13
  Speaker 1: went to Flanders, where he stayed a considerable time. When
• 4:41:17
  Speaker 1: he returned to England and lived in as abandoned a
• 4:41:21
  Speaker 1: manner as before. Soon after his return, having drank freely
• 4:41:26
  Speaker 1: with two tradesmen, they all walked together towards Hampstead, and
• 4:41:30
  Speaker 1: meeting a mister Dawson with five other gentlemen. A quarrel ensued.
• 4:41:35
  Speaker 1: One of the gentlemen fired a pistol, the ball from
• 4:41:38
  Speaker 1: which Gray's Stanley's skin enraged. Thereby, the latter drew his sword,
• 4:41:44
  Speaker 1: and making a pass at him, the sword ran into
• 4:41:47
  Speaker 1: the body of mister Dawson, through the lower part of
• 4:41:50
  Speaker 1: his belly and to his backbone. The wounded man was
• 4:41:54
  Speaker 1: conveyed to a neighboring house, where he lay six weeks
• 4:41:58
  Speaker 1: before he was perfectly recovered. However, as Dawson happened to
• 4:42:03
  Speaker 1: know Stanley, he took out a writ against him for
• 4:42:05
  Speaker 1: damages to recover the expense of the cure but the
• 4:42:09
  Speaker 1: writ was never executed, as Stanley was so celebrated for
• 4:42:14
  Speaker 1: his skill in the use of his sword and his
• 4:42:17
  Speaker 1: daring disposition that bailiff's were afraid to arrest him. Not
• 4:42:22
  Speaker 1: long after this, quarreling with Captain Chickley in a sier
• 4:42:26
  Speaker 1: celler in Covent Garden, Stanley challenged the captain to fight
• 4:42:30
  Speaker 1: in a dark room. They shut themselves in, but a
• 4:42:33
  Speaker 1: constable being sent for broke open the door and probably
• 4:42:37
  Speaker 1: saved Stanley's life, for Chickley had then ran his sword
• 4:42:42
  Speaker 1: through his body, while he himself received only two slight wounds.
• 4:42:47
  Speaker 1: It appears that Stanley still paid occasional visits to Missus Maycock,
• 4:42:52
  Speaker 1: and he had the insolence to pretend anger at her
• 4:42:55
  Speaker 1: receiving the visits of other persons, though he was not
• 4:42:58
  Speaker 1: able to support her, for he had the vanity to
• 4:43:02
  Speaker 1: think that a woman whom he had debotched ought forever
• 4:43:06
  Speaker 1: to bear true allegiance to him as a wife to
• 4:43:09
  Speaker 1: her husband. Missus Maycock, having been to visit a gentleman,
• 4:43:14
  Speaker 1: was returning one night through Chancery Lane in company with
• 4:43:17
  Speaker 1: another woman and mister Hammond of the Old Bailey. Stanley
• 4:43:22
  Speaker 1: in company with another man, met the parties, and he
• 4:43:25
  Speaker 1: and his companion insisted on going with the women. Hammond
• 4:43:29
  Speaker 1: hereupon said the ladies belonged to him, But Missus Maycock,
• 4:43:34
  Speaker 1: now recognizing Stanley, said what captain is it you? He
• 4:43:40
  Speaker 1: asked her where she was going? She said to mister
• 4:43:43
  Speaker 1: Hammond's in the old Bailey. He replied that he was
• 4:43:46
  Speaker 1: glad to meet her and would go with her. As
• 4:43:49
  Speaker 1: they walked down Fleet Street, Stanley desired his companions to
• 4:43:54
  Speaker 1: go back and wait for him at an appointed place,
• 4:43:58
  Speaker 1: and as the company was going forward, Stanley struck a
• 4:44:01
  Speaker 1: man who happened to be in his way, and kicked
• 4:44:03
  Speaker 1: a woman on the same account. Being arrived at Hammond's house,
• 4:44:08
  Speaker 1: the company desired Stanley to go home, but this he refused,
• 4:44:12
  Speaker 1: and Missus Maycock going into the kitchen. He pushed in
• 4:44:17
  Speaker 1: after her, and some words having passed between them, he
• 4:44:20
  Speaker 1: stabbed her so that she died. In about an hour
• 4:44:23
  Speaker 1: and a half, other company going into the kitchen saw
• 4:44:28
  Speaker 1: Stanley flourishing his sword, while the deceased was fainting with
• 4:44:32
  Speaker 1: loss of blood and crying out, I am stabbed, I
• 4:44:36
  Speaker 1: am murdered. Stanley's sword being taken from him, He threw
• 4:44:40
  Speaker 1: himself down by Missus Maycock and said, my dear Hannah,
• 4:44:45
  Speaker 1: would you not speak to me? The offender, being taken
• 4:44:49
  Speaker 1: into custody, was brought to his trial at the Old Bailey,
• 4:44:53
  Speaker 1: where some witnesses endeavored to prove that he was a lunatic,
• 4:44:56
  Speaker 1: but the jury, considering his extravagant conduct as the effect
• 4:45:01
  Speaker 1: of his vices only, and the evidenced against him being positive,
• 4:45:05
  Speaker 1: he was found guilty and received sentence of death. Before
• 4:45:09
  Speaker 1: his conviction he had behaved in a very inconsiderate manner.
• 4:45:14
  Speaker 1: Nor was his conduct much altered afterwards, only that when
• 4:45:19
  Speaker 1: he heard the name of Missus Maycock mentioned, he was
• 4:45:23
  Speaker 1: seized with violent tremblings, and drops of cold sweat fell
• 4:45:27
  Speaker 1: from his face. He was carried to the place of
• 4:45:30
  Speaker 1: execution in a morning coach, but on being put into
• 4:45:34
  Speaker 1: the cart under the gallows, he turned pale and was
• 4:45:37
  Speaker 1: so weak that he could not stand without support. He
• 4:45:41
  Speaker 1: made no speech to the people, but only said, as
• 4:45:45
  Speaker 1: a hearse was provided to take away his body, he
• 4:45:48
  Speaker 1: hoped no one would prevent his receiving Christian burial. It
• 4:45:53
  Speaker 1: was observed that he wept bitterly after the cap was
• 4:45:57
  Speaker 1: drawn over his eyes. He was executed at Tyburn on
• 4:46:01
  Speaker 1: the twenty third of December seventeen twenty three, at age
• 4:46:05
  Speaker 1: twenty five years case of Stephen Gardner, who was hanged
• 4:46:10
  Speaker 1: for burglary. This malefactor was born in moor fields of
• 4:46:15
  Speaker 1: poor parents, who put him apprentice to a weaver, but
• 4:46:19
  Speaker 1: his behavior soon became so bad that his master was
• 4:46:22
  Speaker 1: obliged to correct him severely, on which he ran away
• 4:46:26
  Speaker 1: and associated with blackguard boys in the streets, and then
• 4:46:30
  Speaker 1: was driven home through mere hunger. His friends now determined
• 4:46:35
  Speaker 1: to send him to sea and put him on board
• 4:46:37
  Speaker 1: a corn vessel, the master of which traded to France
• 4:46:41
  Speaker 1: and Holland. Being an idle and useless hand on board,
• 4:46:45
  Speaker 1: he was treated so roughly by his shipmates that he
• 4:46:48
  Speaker 1: grew heartily tired of a seafaring life, and on his
• 4:46:52
  Speaker 1: return from the first voyage, he promised the utmost obedience
• 4:46:57
  Speaker 1: of his friends would permit him to remain at home.
• 4:47:01
  Speaker 1: This was readily complied with in the hope of his reformation,
• 4:47:05
  Speaker 1: and he was now put to a waterman. But being
• 4:47:08
  Speaker 1: impatient of restraint, he soon quitted his service and engaged
• 4:47:13
  Speaker 1: with dissolute fellows in the neighborhood of Moorfields, with whom
• 4:47:16
  Speaker 1: he played cards, dice, and et cetera, till he was
• 4:47:20
  Speaker 1: stripped of what little money he had, and then commenced pickpocket.
• 4:47:25
  Speaker 1: His first attempt of this kind was at guild Hall
• 4:47:28
  Speaker 1: during the drawing of the lottery, when he took a
• 4:47:30
  Speaker 1: wig out of a man's pocket, but though he was
• 4:47:33
  Speaker 1: detected in the offense, the humanity of the surrounding multitude
• 4:47:37
  Speaker 1: permitted his escape. This circumstance encouraged him to continue his practice,
• 4:47:43
  Speaker 1: and about a month afterwards he was detected in picking
• 4:47:46
  Speaker 1: another pocket, and, notwithstanding his protestations of innocence, underwent the
• 4:47:52
  Speaker 1: discipline of the horse pond. He was now determined to
• 4:47:56
  Speaker 1: give over a business which was necessarily attended with so
• 4:48:00
  Speaker 1: much hazard and afforded so little prospect of advantage. But
• 4:48:05
  Speaker 1: soon afterwards he became acquainted with two notorious housebreakers named
• 4:48:09
  Speaker 1: Garraway and Sly, who offered to take him as partner.
• 4:48:14
  Speaker 1: But he rejected their proposals till one night when he
• 4:48:18
  Speaker 1: had lost all his money and most of his clothes
• 4:48:21
  Speaker 1: at cards. Then he went to his new acquaintance and
• 4:48:25
  Speaker 1: agreed to be concerned in their illicit practices. Garraway proposed
• 4:48:30
  Speaker 1: that they should rob his own brother, which being immediately
• 4:48:33
  Speaker 1: agreed to. They broke open his house and stole most
• 4:48:36
  Speaker 1: of his and his wife's wearing apparel, which they sold
• 4:48:40
  Speaker 1: and spent the money in extravagance. They in the next
• 4:48:44
  Speaker 1: place robbed Garraway's uncle of a considerable quantity of plate,
• 4:48:49
  Speaker 1: which they sold to a woman named Gill, who disposed
• 4:48:52
  Speaker 1: of the plate and never accounted to them for the produce. Gardner,
• 4:48:58
  Speaker 1: provoked at being thus defraud of his share of the
• 4:49:01
  Speaker 1: ill got booty, informed Jonathan Wilde of the robbery, who
• 4:49:06
  Speaker 1: got him admitted an evidence against the other men, who
• 4:49:10
  Speaker 1: were convicted, but respited on condition of being transported. Gardener,
• 4:49:16
  Speaker 1: having now been some time acquainted with a woman who
• 4:49:19
  Speaker 1: kept a public house in Fleet Lane, and who was
• 4:49:22
  Speaker 1: possessed of some money, he proposed to marry her with
• 4:49:25
  Speaker 1: a view of obtaining her property, and the woman listening
• 4:49:29
  Speaker 1: to his offer, they were married by one of the
• 4:49:32
  Speaker 1: Fleet Parsons. The money Gardener obtained with his spouse was
• 4:49:37
  Speaker 1: soon spent in extravagance, and not long afterwards they were
• 4:49:41
  Speaker 1: apprehended on suspicion of felony and conducted to Saint Sepulcher's watchhouse. However,
• 4:49:48
  Speaker 1: the charge against them not being validated, it was necessary
• 4:49:53
  Speaker 1: to dismiss them. But before they were set at liberty,
• 4:49:57
  Speaker 1: the constable said the gardener, where how you come here again?
• 4:50:03
  Speaker 1: Or this bell man will certainly say his verses over you.
• 4:50:08
  Speaker 1: For the bell man happen to be at that time
• 4:50:10
  Speaker 1: in the watch house. It has been a very ancient practice,
• 4:50:15
  Speaker 1: on the night preceding the execution of condemned criminals, for
• 4:50:19
  Speaker 1: the bell man of the parish of Saint Sepulcher to
• 4:50:22
  Speaker 1: go under Newgate and ring his bell to repeat the
• 4:50:26
  Speaker 1: following verses as a piece of friendly advice to the
• 4:50:30
  Speaker 1: unhappy wretch's under sentence of death. All you that in
• 4:50:35
  Speaker 1: the condemned hole do lie, Prepare you for tomorrow you
• 4:50:40
  Speaker 1: shall die. Watch all and pray. The hour is drawing
• 4:50:45
  Speaker 1: near that you, before the Almighty must appear, Examine well
• 4:50:52
  Speaker 1: yourselves in time repent, for you may not the eternal
• 4:50:57
  Speaker 1: flames be sent. And when Saint Sepulcher's bell to morrow tolls,
• 4:51:04
  Speaker 1: the Lord above have mercy on your souls. Past twelve o'clock.
• 4:51:11
  Speaker 1: The following extract from Stow's Survey of London, Page one
• 4:51:15
  Speaker 1: ninety five of the Quarto edition printed in sixteen eighteen,
• 4:51:20
  Speaker 1: will prove that the above verses ought to be repeated
• 4:51:23
  Speaker 1: by a clergyman instead of a bellman. Robert Dove, citizen
• 4:51:30
  Speaker 1: and merchant tailor of London, gave to the parish Church
• 4:51:34
  Speaker 1: of Saint Sepulcher's the sum of fifty pounds that after
• 4:51:39
  Speaker 1: the several sessions of London, when the prisoners remain in
• 4:51:43
  Speaker 1: jail as condemned men to death, expecting execution on the
• 4:51:48
  Speaker 1: morrow following, the clerk, that is, the parson of the church,
• 4:51:53
  Speaker 1: should come in the night time and likewise early in
• 4:51:56
  Speaker 1: the morning, to the window of the prison where they lie,
• 4:52:00
  Speaker 1: and there ring certain tolls with a hand bell appointed
• 4:52:04
  Speaker 1: for the purpose. He doth afterwards, in a most Christian manner,
• 4:52:08
  Speaker 1: put them in mind of their present condition and ensuing execution,
• 4:52:14
  Speaker 1: desiring them to be prepared therefore as they ought to be.
• 4:52:19
  Speaker 1: When they are in the cart and brought before the
• 4:52:21
  Speaker 1: wall of the church, there he standeth ready with the
• 4:52:25
  Speaker 1: same bell, and after certain tolls, rehearseth an appointed prayer,
• 4:52:31
  Speaker 1: desiring all the people there present to pray for them.
• 4:52:35
  Speaker 1: The beadle also of merchant tailor's hall, hath an honest
• 4:52:40
  Speaker 1: stipend allowed to see that this was duly done. Gardner
• 4:52:46
  Speaker 1: was greatly affected when the constable told him that the
• 4:52:50
  Speaker 1: bellman would say his verses over him, but the impression
• 4:52:55
  Speaker 1: it made on his mind soon wore off, and he
• 4:52:57
  Speaker 1: quickly returned to his vishes. In a short time after
• 4:53:02
  Speaker 1: this adventure, Gardner fell into the company with one Rice Jones,
• 4:53:08
  Speaker 1: and they agreed to go together on the passing lay,
• 4:53:12
  Speaker 1: which is an artifice frequently practiced in modern times. And
• 4:53:17
  Speaker 1: though the sharpers are often taken into custody and their
• 4:53:21
  Speaker 1: tricks exposed in the newspapers, yet there are repeatedly found
• 4:53:25
  Speaker 1: people weak enough to submit to the imposition. The following
• 4:53:30
  Speaker 1: is a description of this trick from a book formerly
• 4:53:34
  Speaker 1: printed quote. The rogues, having concerted their plan, one of
• 4:53:39
  Speaker 1: them takes a countryman into a public house under pretense
• 4:53:43
  Speaker 1: of any business they can think of. Then the other
• 4:53:46
  Speaker 1: one comes in as a stranger, and in a little
• 4:53:49
  Speaker 1: time finds a pack of cards which his companion has
• 4:53:53
  Speaker 1: designedly laid on some shelf in the room, on which
• 4:53:57
  Speaker 1: the two sharpers begin to play at length. One of
• 4:54:01
  Speaker 1: them offers a wager on the game and puts down
• 4:54:03
  Speaker 1: his money. The other shows his cards to the countryman
• 4:54:08
  Speaker 1: to convince him that he must certainly win, and offers
• 4:54:11
  Speaker 1: to let him go halves in the wager. But soon
• 4:54:14
  Speaker 1: after the countryman has laid down his money, the sharpers
• 4:54:18
  Speaker 1: managed the matter so as to pass off with it.
• 4:54:25
  Speaker 1: This was evidently the mode of tricking formally, but it
• 4:54:29
  Speaker 1: seems to have been improved on of late years, for
• 4:54:32
  Speaker 1: the sharpers generally game with the countryman till he has
• 4:54:35
  Speaker 1: lost all his money, and then he has only to
• 4:54:40
  Speaker 1: excreate his own folly for suffering himself to be duped
• 4:54:44
  Speaker 1: by a couple of rascals. In this practice, our adventurers
• 4:54:48
  Speaker 1: were very successful at different places, particularly at Bristol. But
• 4:54:53
  Speaker 1: in this last place Jones built Gardner in such a
• 4:54:56
  Speaker 1: manner as to prove that there is no truth in
• 4:54:59
  Speaker 1: the u the observation of honour among thieves. For Jones,
• 4:55:04
  Speaker 1: having defrauded a country gentleman of a gold watch and chain,
• 4:55:08
  Speaker 1: a suit of laced clothes, and about a hundred guineas,
• 4:55:12
  Speaker 1: gave no share of the booty to Gardner. This induced
• 4:55:16
  Speaker 1: the latter to think of revenge, but he disguised his sentiments,
• 4:55:20
  Speaker 1: and they went together to both, where they remained some time,
• 4:55:24
  Speaker 1: and then proceeded on their journey. But in the morning
• 4:55:28
  Speaker 1: of which they set out, Gardener stole an iron pestle
• 4:55:33
  Speaker 1: from the inn where they lay, and concealed it in
• 4:55:36
  Speaker 1: his boot, with the intention of murdering his companion. When
• 4:55:40
  Speaker 1: they should come into an unfrequented place on their journey,
• 4:55:45
  Speaker 1: Gardner general kept behind Jones and twice took out the
• 4:55:50
  Speaker 1: pestle with an intention to perpetrate the murder, but his
• 4:55:54
  Speaker 1: resolution failing him, he at length dropped it in the road,
• 4:55:58
  Speaker 1: unperceived by his companion. In a few days afterwards, these
• 4:56:03
  Speaker 1: companions in iniquity parted, and on this occasion Jones said,
• 4:56:08
  Speaker 1: hark ye, Gardener, whither are you going to London? Said he? Why,
• 4:56:13
  Speaker 1: then replied Jones, you are going to be hanged. We
• 4:56:19
  Speaker 1: find that this was not the first intimation that Gardner
• 4:56:22
  Speaker 1: received of the fatal consequence that must attend his illicit practices,
• 4:56:28
  Speaker 1: but it appeared to have no good effect on him,
• 4:56:31
  Speaker 1: for soon after he quitted Jones, he broke open a
• 4:56:34
  Speaker 1: house between Abergavenny and Monmouth, and, finding no money, he
• 4:56:40
  Speaker 1: took only a gown with which he rode off. Soon
• 4:56:45
  Speaker 1: after his arrival in London, he robbed a house in
• 4:56:47
  Speaker 1: adel Hill, but was not apprehended for it, but in
• 4:56:51
  Speaker 1: a short time he broke open the house of Missus
• 4:56:54
  Speaker 1: Roberts and carried off linen to the amount of twenty
• 4:56:58
  Speaker 1: five pounds. In this robbery he was assisted by John Martin,
• 4:57:03
  Speaker 1: and both offenders, being soon afterwards taken into custody, were
• 4:57:07
  Speaker 1: brought to trial, capitally convicted and received sentence of death,
• 4:57:12
  Speaker 1: but Martin was afterwards reprieved on condition of transportation for
• 4:57:17
  Speaker 1: fourteen years. After sentence of death, Gardner became as sincere
• 4:57:22
  Speaker 1: a penitent as he had been a notorious offender. He
• 4:57:26
  Speaker 1: resigned himself to his fate with the utmost submission, and
• 4:57:30
  Speaker 1: before he quitted Newgate on the day of execution, he
• 4:57:34
  Speaker 1: dressed himself in a shroud in which he was executed,
• 4:57:38
  Speaker 1: refusing to wear any other clothes, though the weather was
• 4:57:41
  Speaker 1: intensely cold. At the fatal Tree, he saw some of
• 4:57:45
  Speaker 1: his old companions, whom he desired to take warning by
• 4:57:49
  Speaker 1: his calamitous fate to avoid bad company and embrace a
• 4:57:53
  Speaker 1: life of sobriety as the most certain road to happiness.
• 4:57:58
  Speaker 1: In this world, and then next he was executed at
• 4:58:02
  Speaker 1: Tyburn on the third of February seventeen twenty four. Particulars
• 4:58:08
  Speaker 1: respecting Francis Brightwell and Benjamin Brightwell, who were tried for
• 4:58:13
  Speaker 1: highway robbery and acquitted. As it is one professed design
• 4:58:19
  Speaker 1: of this publication to give trials in extraordinary cases on
• 4:58:23
  Speaker 1: which the parties accused have been acquitted. In compliance with
• 4:58:27
  Speaker 1: this rule, we insert the following though it will be
• 4:58:31
  Speaker 1: seen that the supposed offenders, so far from being thieves,
• 4:58:35
  Speaker 1: were an ornament to human nature. In the month of
• 4:58:38
  Speaker 1: August seventeen twenty four, Francis Brightwell and Benjamin Brightwell were
• 4:58:44
  Speaker 1: indicted for assaulting John Partiger on the highway and robbing
• 4:58:49
  Speaker 1: him of three shillings. He was sworn by mister Particker
• 4:58:54
  Speaker 1: that he had been robbed on the road to Hampstead
• 4:58:58
  Speaker 1: by two fellows. In the course the following pages, it
• 4:59:01
  Speaker 1: will appear that this robbery was committed by shepherd and blueskin,
• 4:59:06
  Speaker 1: dressed in soldier's clothes, and that being on the same
• 4:59:10
  Speaker 1: road a few days afterwards, he was showing some farmers
• 4:59:13
  Speaker 1: the spot where he had been robbed. At the very
• 4:59:16
  Speaker 1: time the Brightwells came in sight, on which he declared
• 4:59:22
  Speaker 1: that they were the persons who had robbed him. Whereupon
• 4:59:25
  Speaker 1: they were immediately taken into custody, which was a work
• 4:59:29
  Speaker 1: of no great difficulty, as the surprise on being charged
• 4:59:33
  Speaker 1: with a crime of which they were wholly innocent deprive
• 4:59:36
  Speaker 1: them of all idea of resistance. These brothers were soldiers
• 4:59:40
  Speaker 1: in the Grenadier Guards, and when they were carried before
• 4:59:44
  Speaker 1: a magistrate, though mister Partiger swore positively to their persons,
• 4:59:49
  Speaker 1: Francis alleged that he was on guard at the time
• 4:59:53
  Speaker 1: of the robbery, and Benjamin said that he was at home.
• 4:59:57
  Speaker 1: On the trial, the sergeant produced the re gimental book,
• 5:00:01
  Speaker 1: from which it was evident that when the robbery was committed,
• 5:00:04
  Speaker 1: Francis was on guard at Kensington, and several persons of
• 5:00:08
  Speaker 1: reputation proved that Benjamin was at his lodgings in Clare Market,
• 5:00:13
  Speaker 1: and likewise gave him an excellent character with regard to Francis.
• 5:00:18
  Speaker 1: Mister Hughes, a clergyman, delivered his testimony in the following
• 5:00:22
  Speaker 1: words quote. I have known Francis Brightwell near twenty years.
• 5:00:28
  Speaker 1: He is always reputed to be a person of the
• 5:00:33
  Speaker 1: fairest character for sobriety, piety and justice. He was to
• 5:00:39
  Speaker 1: an extraordinary degree accomplished with Latin and Greek literature, and
• 5:00:44
  Speaker 1: had good skill in Roman antiquities. And in a word,
• 5:00:48
  Speaker 1: he carried so great a share of exquisite learning under
• 5:00:51
  Speaker 1: his grenadier's cap that I believe there is not such
• 5:00:55
  Speaker 1: another grenadier in the whole universe end quote. This testimony
• 5:01:01
  Speaker 1: of mister Hughes was confirmed by a number of military officers,
• 5:01:05
  Speaker 1: and the court and jury. Considering that mister Particker must
• 5:01:10
  Speaker 1: have been mistaken in the parties who robbed him, the
• 5:01:14
  Speaker 1: brothers were honorably acquitted on the twenty second of the
• 5:01:17
  Speaker 1: month in which he was tried. Francis Brightwell died at
• 5:01:21
  Speaker 1: his lodgings at Paddington, as supposed of jail distemper. He
• 5:01:26
  Speaker 1: was attended during his short illness by the late eminent
• 5:01:30
  Speaker 1: Sir Hans Sloane, but the malignity of his disorder defied
• 5:01:35
  Speaker 1: the power of medicine. The following curious letter respecting France's
• 5:01:40
  Speaker 1: bright Well is extracted from the newspaper called The British
• 5:01:45
  Speaker 1: Journal of the fifth of September seventeen twenty four. Sir
• 5:01:51
  Speaker 1: finding that all our public papers from the fourth of
• 5:01:55
  Speaker 1: August of this day have omitted to make honorable mention
• 5:01:59
  Speaker 1: of some very remarkable circumstances relating to a very private person.
• 5:02:04
  Speaker 1: I desire his memory may be deposited in your journal.
• 5:02:09
  Speaker 1: The person I mean is Francis Brightwell, the grenadier, who
• 5:02:12
  Speaker 1: is tried and acquitted at the Old Bairey for a
• 5:02:16
  Speaker 1: robbery sworn against him, and who, since his coming out
• 5:02:20
  Speaker 1: of prison, died, as tis said of the jail distemper.
• 5:02:25
  Speaker 1: When evidence was given against him in court, Brightwell, by
• 5:02:29
  Speaker 1: several witnesses, proved that he was upon the King's Guard
• 5:02:33
  Speaker 1: at Kensington and at the time of that robbery. If
• 5:02:37
  Speaker 1: a robbery was committed hereupon, the court went into an
• 5:02:41
  Speaker 1: inquiry concerning the reputation and character of the prisoner. Some
• 5:02:46
  Speaker 1: officers who had known him long in the service gave
• 5:02:50
  Speaker 1: testimony of his sobriety and diligence in the duty of
• 5:02:54
  Speaker 1: a soldier. As to his honesty, a lady present in
• 5:02:58
  Speaker 1: court declared that she had entrusted him with a thousand
• 5:03:02
  Speaker 1: pounds at a time, and a gentleman that had committed
• 5:03:06
  Speaker 1: his house and goods to the value of six thousand
• 5:03:09
  Speaker 1: pounds to his keeping in both trusts, Brightwell had acquitted
• 5:03:14
  Speaker 1: himself to the satisfaction of the parties concerned. These ample
• 5:03:19
  Speaker 1: testimonies concurring to the honor of a man in so
• 5:03:23
  Speaker 1: low a condition of life, gave, as you may imagine,
• 5:03:27
  Speaker 1: no small surprise to all that were present, when a
• 5:03:31
  Speaker 1: clergyman added to the astonishment by declaring that he had
• 5:03:36
  Speaker 1: long known the prisoner to be not only a person
• 5:03:39
  Speaker 1: of sobriety, but likewise of very excellent learning, and particularly
• 5:03:45
  Speaker 1: in Latin and Greek. For that Brightwell had often consulted
• 5:03:49
  Speaker 1: him upon difficult passages in Virgil and Horace. Thus much
• 5:03:55
  Speaker 1: for what appeared at the trial of this grenadier, Bayshou
• 5:04:00
  Speaker 1: only remark upon his learning that I am amazed that
• 5:04:03
  Speaker 1: scholarship is not very common among military men, considering their
• 5:04:08
  Speaker 1: profession amidst of more leisure hours than any other. Perhaps
• 5:04:13
  Speaker 1: these gentlemen are afraid of knowledge. From a celebrated maxim
• 5:04:17
  Speaker 1: delivered by John Dryden, the learned are all cowards by profession,
• 5:04:24
  Speaker 1: And yet Alexander and Caesar were scholars, and they did
• 5:04:29
  Speaker 1: not seem to want courage, but to pursue what further
• 5:04:34
  Speaker 1: particulars I have learned of this deceased grenadier. He was
• 5:04:38
  Speaker 1: contented in his station, studious of leisure, and ambitious only
• 5:04:43
  Speaker 1: of knowledge. He had offers of being promoted to the
• 5:04:47
  Speaker 1: rank of corporal or sergeant, which he declined they might
• 5:04:51
  Speaker 1: have as few avocations as possible from his studies. Neither
• 5:04:56
  Speaker 1: did he ever covet money, and I am aptible leave.
• 5:05:00
  Speaker 1: Had he been at the sacking of a town, he
• 5:05:03
  Speaker 1: would not have thought of carrying off any other plunder
• 5:05:07
  Speaker 1: but a valuable book or two. Take the following instance
• 5:05:11
  Speaker 1: of his disregard of gain. He had an excellent manner
• 5:05:15
  Speaker 1: of cleaning and refurbishing arms, for which he had a
• 5:05:18
  Speaker 1: settled price. An officer whose arms he had brightened was
• 5:05:23
  Speaker 1: so pleased with his work that he sent bright well
• 5:05:27
  Speaker 1: over and above the usual price a guinea for a present.
• 5:05:32
  Speaker 1: The philosopher took his price and returned the guinea by
• 5:05:36
  Speaker 1: the servant. Some time after, when the gentleman saw him,
• 5:05:40
  Speaker 1: said he why would you not accept the guinea I
• 5:05:44
  Speaker 1: sent you. I am paid for my work, replied the sentinel,
• 5:05:48
  Speaker 1: and desire no more except of a crown. Then if
• 5:05:52
  Speaker 1: your modesty makes you think a guinea too much, said
• 5:05:56
  Speaker 1: the officer. Excuse me, sir, answered the veteran, and do
• 5:06:01
  Speaker 1: not think it vanity or affectation when I refuse your kindness.
• 5:06:06
  Speaker 1: But indeed, Sir, I don't want it. But I am
• 5:06:10
  Speaker 1: thirsty and have no money about me, so that if
• 5:06:14
  Speaker 1: your honor will be pleased to give me threepence to
• 5:06:17
  Speaker 1: drink your health, I shall thankfully accept it. This last
• 5:06:22
  Speaker 1: particular of our Grenadier runs so very parallel with the
• 5:06:26
  Speaker 1: story in Sir William Temple's Observations of the United Provinces,
• 5:06:30
  Speaker 1: that I think it proper to transcribe it on this occasion,
• 5:06:35
  Speaker 1: Volume one, page fifty quote. Among the many and various
• 5:06:40
  Speaker 1: hospitals that are in every man's curiosity and talk that
• 5:06:44
  Speaker 1: travels Holland, I was affected with none more than that
• 5:06:49
  Speaker 1: of the aged seamen at Enschuseidon, which is contrived, finished,
• 5:06:55
  Speaker 1: and ordered, as if it were done with a kind
• 5:06:57
  Speaker 1: of intention of some well natured man, that those who
• 5:07:02
  Speaker 1: had passed their whole lives in the hardships and incommodities
• 5:07:07
  Speaker 1: of the sea, should find a retreat stored with all
• 5:07:11
  Speaker 1: the ease and conveniency that age is capable of feeling
• 5:07:15
  Speaker 1: and enjoying. And here I met with the only rich
• 5:07:19
  Speaker 1: man that I ever saw in my life, for one
• 5:07:23
  Speaker 1: of those old seamen, entertaining me with the plain stories
• 5:07:28
  Speaker 1: of his fifty years voyages and adventures. While I was
• 5:07:31
  Speaker 1: viewing this hospital and church adjoining, gave him at parting
• 5:07:37
  Speaker 1: a piece of their coin about the value of a crown.
• 5:07:42
  Speaker 1: He took it smiling and offered me again, but when
• 5:07:45
  Speaker 1: I refused it, he asked me what he should do
• 5:07:48
  Speaker 1: with the money. I left him to overcome his modesty
• 5:07:52
  Speaker 1: as he could. But a servant coming after me saw
• 5:07:55
  Speaker 1: him give it to a little girl that opened the
• 5:07:58
  Speaker 1: church door as she passed by him, which made me
• 5:08:02
  Speaker 1: reflect on the fantastic calculation of riches and poverty that
• 5:08:07
  Speaker 1: is current to the world, by which a man that
• 5:08:10
  Speaker 1: wants a million is a prince, and he that wants
• 5:08:15
  Speaker 1: but a groat is a beggar, and that this was
• 5:08:18
  Speaker 1: a poor man that wanted nothing at all. End. The
• 5:08:24
  Speaker 1: case of these brothers affords an admirable lesson to prosecutors
• 5:08:28
  Speaker 1: to be cautious how they swear to the identity of persons.
• 5:08:33
  Speaker 1: It is better that the guilty should escape than that
• 5:08:36
  Speaker 1: the innocent should be punished. It likewise affords us an
• 5:08:40
  Speaker 1: instance of the mysterious providence of God. Two innocent men
• 5:08:45
  Speaker 1: are charged with a crime, and the consequence of imprisonment
• 5:08:50
  Speaker 1: and possibly of grief, ends in the death of one
• 5:08:53
  Speaker 1: of them. We may presume that he was too good
• 5:08:57
  Speaker 1: for this wicked world, and that the all minight he
• 5:09:00
  Speaker 1: chose this method of calling him to a better This
• 5:09:05
  Speaker 1: is the end of Part ten, Volume one of the
• 5:09:09
  Speaker 1: New and Complete Newgate Calendar, The Life and Transactions of
• 5:09:14
  Speaker 1: Joseph Blake, otherwise Blueskin, who was hanged for burglary. This offender,
• 5:09:21
  Speaker 1: who was a native of London, was sent to school
• 5:09:23
  Speaker 1: by his parents for the space of six years, but
• 5:09:26
  Speaker 1: he made little progress in learning, having a very early
• 5:09:30
  Speaker 1: propensity to acts of dishonesty. While at school, he made
• 5:09:35
  Speaker 1: an acquaintance with William Blewett, who afterwards entered into Jonathan
• 5:09:40
  Speaker 1: Wiles gang and became one of the most notorious villains
• 5:09:44
  Speaker 1: of the age. No sooner had Blake left school than
• 5:09:48
  Speaker 1: he commenced pickpocket and had been in all the prisons
• 5:09:53
  Speaker 1: for felons before he was fifteen years of age. From
• 5:09:57
  Speaker 1: this practice, he turned street rock and joined Oakey Levy
• 5:10:02
  Speaker 1: and many other villains who acted under the directions of
• 5:10:06
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Wilde for some of the robberies they committed. They
• 5:10:10
  Speaker 1: were taken into custody and Blake was admitted an evidence
• 5:10:14
  Speaker 1: against his companions, who were convicted in consequence of these convictions.
• 5:10:19
  Speaker 1: Blake claimed his liberty and part of the reward allowed
• 5:10:23
  Speaker 1: by government, but he was informed by the court that
• 5:10:27
  Speaker 1: he had no right to either because he was not
• 5:10:30
  Speaker 1: a voluntary evidence, since so far from having surrendered, he
• 5:10:35
  Speaker 1: made an obstinate resistance and was much wounded before he
• 5:10:38
  Speaker 1: was taken, and therefore he must find security for his
• 5:10:42
  Speaker 1: good behavior or be transported. Not being able to give
• 5:10:46
  Speaker 1: the requisite security, he was lodged in the wood Street compter,
• 5:10:51
  Speaker 1: where he remained a considerable time, during which Jonathan Wilde
• 5:10:55
  Speaker 1: allowed him three shillings and sixpence a week. At length.
• 5:11:00
  Speaker 1: He prevailed on two gardeners to be his bail, but
• 5:11:04
  Speaker 1: the court at the Old Bailey, hesitating to take their security,
• 5:11:08
  Speaker 1: They went before Sir John Friar, who took their recognizance
• 5:11:12
  Speaker 1: for Blake's good behavior for seven years. A gentleman who
• 5:11:16
  Speaker 1: happened to be present at Sir John's asked how long
• 5:11:19
  Speaker 1: it might be before Blake would appear again at the
• 5:11:21
  Speaker 1: Old Bailey, to which another gentleman answered three sessions, and
• 5:11:27
  Speaker 1: he happened to be perfectly right in his conjecture. Blake
• 5:11:31
  Speaker 1: had no sooner obtained his liberty than he was concerned
• 5:11:35
  Speaker 1: in several robberies with Jack Sheppard, and particularly that for
• 5:11:38
  Speaker 1: which the two brothers bright Well were tried. The footpad
• 5:11:42
  Speaker 1: robberies and burglaries they committed were very numerous. But the
• 5:11:47
  Speaker 1: fact for which Blake suffered was the robbery of mister Neebone,
• 5:11:52
  Speaker 1: as will appear by the following account. At the Old
• 5:11:56
  Speaker 1: Bailey sessions. In October seventeen twenty four, Joseph Blake, otherwise Blueskin,
• 5:12:02
  Speaker 1: was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling house of
• 5:12:05
  Speaker 1: Widiam Kneebone and stealing one hundred eight yards of woolen cloth,
• 5:12:10
  Speaker 1: valued at thirty six pounds, and other goods. The prosecutor
• 5:12:15
  Speaker 1: having sworn that the bars of his cellar window were cut,
• 5:12:19
  Speaker 1: and that the cellar door, which had been bolted and padlocked,
• 5:12:22
  Speaker 1: was broken open. He acquainted Jonathan Wilde with what had happened,
• 5:12:27
  Speaker 1: who went to Blake's lodgings with two other persons, but
• 5:12:31
  Speaker 1: Blake refusing to open the door, it was broke open
• 5:12:34
  Speaker 1: by Quilt Arnold, one of Wyl's men. On this Blake
• 5:12:39
  Speaker 1: drew a penknife and swore he would kill the first
• 5:12:42
  Speaker 1: man that entered, in answer to which Arnold said, then
• 5:12:46
  Speaker 1: I am the first man, and mister Wilde is not
• 5:12:50
  Speaker 1: far behind. If you don't deliver your pen knife immediately,
• 5:12:55
  Speaker 1: I will chop off your arm. Thereupon the prisoner dropped
• 5:12:59
  Speaker 1: the knife and wild entering. He was taken into custody.
• 5:13:04
  Speaker 1: As the parties were conveying Blake to Newgate, they came
• 5:13:07
  Speaker 1: by the house of the Prosecutor, on which Wilde said
• 5:13:10
  Speaker 1: to the prisoner, there's the can, and the latter replied,
• 5:13:15
  Speaker 1: say no more of that, mister Wilde, for I know
• 5:13:17
  Speaker 1: I am a dead man, but what I fear is
• 5:13:20
  Speaker 1: that I shall afterwards be carried to the surgeon's hall
• 5:13:24
  Speaker 1: and anatomized, to which Wilde replied, no, I'll take care
• 5:13:31
  Speaker 1: to prevent that, for I'll give you a coffin. William Field,
• 5:13:36
  Speaker 1: who is evidence on the trial, swore that the robbery
• 5:13:40
  Speaker 1: was committed by Blake, Shepherd and himself, and the jury
• 5:13:43
  Speaker 1: brought in a verdict of guilty as soon as the
• 5:13:47
  Speaker 1: verdict was given. Blake addressed the court in the following terms. Quote.
• 5:13:53
  Speaker 1: On Wednesday morning last, Jonathan Wilde said to Simon Jacobs,
• 5:13:59
  Speaker 1: I believe you will not bring forty pounds this time.
• 5:14:03
  Speaker 1: I wish Joe, meaning me, was in your case, but
• 5:14:07
  Speaker 1: I'll do my endeavor to bring you off as a
• 5:14:11
  Speaker 1: single felon. And then turning to me, he said, I
• 5:14:16
  Speaker 1: believe you must die. I'll send you a good book
• 5:14:20
  Speaker 1: or two and provide you a coffin, and you shall
• 5:14:23
  Speaker 1: not be anatomized end quote. Wilde was to have been
• 5:14:29
  Speaker 1: an evidence against this malefactor, but going to visit him
• 5:14:33
  Speaker 1: in the bail dock previous to his trial, Blake suddenly
• 5:14:37
  Speaker 1: drew a clasped penknife with which he cut Jonathan's throat,
• 5:14:42
  Speaker 1: which prevented his giving evidence. But as the knife was blunt,
• 5:14:46
  Speaker 1: the wound, though dangerous, did not prove mortal, and we
• 5:14:50
  Speaker 1: shall see that Jonathan was preserved for a different fate.
• 5:14:55
  Speaker 1: While under sentence of death, Blake did not show a
• 5:14:58
  Speaker 1: concern for poor to his calamitous situation. When asked if
• 5:15:03
  Speaker 1: if he was advised to commit the violence un wild
• 5:15:07
  Speaker 1: he said no, but that a sudden thought entered his mind,
• 5:15:11
  Speaker 1: or he would have provided a knife with which to
• 5:15:14
  Speaker 1: have cut off his head at once. On the nearer
• 5:15:19
  Speaker 1: approach of death, he appeared still less concerned, and it
• 5:15:23
  Speaker 1: was thought that his mind was chiefly bent on meditating
• 5:15:27
  Speaker 1: means of escaping. But seeing those prospect of getting away,
• 5:15:32
  Speaker 1: he took to drinking, which he continued even to the
• 5:15:35
  Speaker 1: day of his death, for he was observed to be
• 5:15:37
  Speaker 1: intoxicated even while he was under the gallows. He was
• 5:15:42
  Speaker 1: executed at Tyburn on the eleventh of November seventeen twenty three.
• 5:15:48
  Speaker 1: Narrative of the life, trial and execution of John Shepherd,
• 5:15:52
  Speaker 1: who was hanged for burglary. The case of this malefactory
• 5:15:56
  Speaker 1: having been more the subject of public conversation than that
• 5:16:00
  Speaker 1: of almost any one who ever underwent the sentence of law,
• 5:16:05
  Speaker 1: and his adventures being in themselves very remarkable, we shall
• 5:16:09
  Speaker 1: be the more particular in our account of him. John
• 5:16:13
  Speaker 1: Shepard was born in Spittlefields in the year seventeen o two.
• 5:16:18
  Speaker 1: His father, who was a carpenter, bore the character of
• 5:16:21
  Speaker 1: an honest man. Yet he had another son named Thomas, who,
• 5:16:26
  Speaker 1: as well as Jack, turned out a thief. The father
• 5:16:30
  Speaker 1: dying while the boys were very young. They were left
• 5:16:33
  Speaker 1: to the care of the mother, who placed Jack at
• 5:16:36
  Speaker 1: a school in Billingsgate Street, where he remained two years,
• 5:16:40
  Speaker 1: and was then put apprentice to a cane maker in Houndsditch,
• 5:16:45
  Speaker 1: his master dying when he had been only a short
• 5:16:48
  Speaker 1: time with him. He was placed with another person of
• 5:16:51
  Speaker 1: the same trade, but here he was so ill treated
• 5:16:54
  Speaker 1: that he remained only a short time when he was
• 5:16:57
  Speaker 1: taken into the protection of mister nebo, a woolen draper
• 5:17:01
  Speaker 1: in the strand who had some knowledge of his father.
• 5:17:04
  Speaker 1: At length, mister Neebone put him apprentice to a carpenter
• 5:17:08
  Speaker 1: in Witch Street. He behaved with decency in this place
• 5:17:12
  Speaker 1: for about four years. When frequenting the Black lion Ale
• 5:17:16
  Speaker 1: house in Drury Lane, he became acquainted with some abandoned women,
• 5:17:21
  Speaker 1: among whom the principal was Elizabeth Lyon, otherwise called Edgeworth Bess,
• 5:17:27
  Speaker 1: from the town of Edgeworth where she was born. While
• 5:17:31
  Speaker 1: he continued to work as a carpenter, he often committed
• 5:17:34
  Speaker 1: robberies in the houses where he was employed, stealing tankards,
• 5:17:38
  Speaker 1: spoons and other articles, which he carried to Edgeworth Bess,
• 5:17:43
  Speaker 1: but not being suspected of having committed these robberies, he
• 5:17:46
  Speaker 1: at length resolved to commence housebreaker. Exclusive of Edgeworth Bess,
• 5:17:53
  Speaker 1: he was acquainted with a woman named Maggot, who persuaded
• 5:17:56
  Speaker 1: him to rob the house of mister Baynes, a heastbroker
• 5:18:01
  Speaker 1: in white Horse Yard, and jack having brought away a
• 5:18:04
  Speaker 1: piece of fustian from thence, which he deposited in his trunk,
• 5:18:08
  Speaker 1: when afterwards, at midnight, and taking the bars out of
• 5:18:11
  Speaker 1: the cellar window, entered and stole goods in money to
• 5:18:15
  Speaker 1: the amount of twenty two pounds, which he carried to Maggot.
• 5:18:20
  Speaker 1: As Shepherd did not go home that night nor the
• 5:18:22
  Speaker 1: following day, his master suspected that he had made bad connections,
• 5:18:28
  Speaker 1: and searching his trunk, found the piece of fustian that
• 5:18:32
  Speaker 1: had been stolen. But Shepherd, hearing of this, broke open
• 5:18:36
  Speaker 1: his master's house in the night and carried off the
• 5:18:39
  Speaker 1: fustian lest it should be brought in evidence against him.
• 5:18:43
  Speaker 1: Shepherd's master sending intelligence to mister Brains of what had happened.
• 5:18:48
  Speaker 1: The latter looked over his goods, and, missing such a
• 5:18:51
  Speaker 1: piece of fustian as had been described to him, suspected
• 5:18:54
  Speaker 1: that Shepherd must have been the robber, and determined to
• 5:18:57
  Speaker 1: have him taken into custody, but Jack, hearing of the affair,
• 5:19:02
  Speaker 1: went to him and threatened a prosecution for scandal, alleging
• 5:19:06
  Speaker 1: that he had received the piece of Fustian from his mother,
• 5:19:10
  Speaker 1: who bought it for him in Spittlefield's The mother, with
• 5:19:14
  Speaker 1: a view to screen her son, declared that what he
• 5:19:18
  Speaker 1: had asserted was true, though she could not point out
• 5:19:21
  Speaker 1: the place where she had made the purchase. Though this
• 5:19:25
  Speaker 1: story was not credited, mister Bains did not take any
• 5:19:28
  Speaker 1: farther steps in the affair. Shepherd's master seemed willing to
• 5:19:33
  Speaker 1: think well of him, and he continued some time longer
• 5:19:36
  Speaker 1: in the family, but after associating himself with the worst
• 5:19:40
  Speaker 1: of company and frequently staying out the whole night, his
• 5:19:44
  Speaker 1: master and he quarreled, and the headstrong youth totally absconded
• 5:19:49
  Speaker 1: in the last year of his apprenticeship and became connected
• 5:19:52
  Speaker 1: with the set of villains of Jonathan Wilds's gang. Jack
• 5:19:57
  Speaker 1: now worked as a journeyman carpenter, with the viewed to
• 5:20:01
  Speaker 1: easier commission of robbery, and being employed to assist in
• 5:20:05
  Speaker 1: repairing the house of a gentleman in Mayfair, he took
• 5:20:08
  Speaker 1: an opportunity of carrying off a sum of money, a
• 5:20:11
  Speaker 1: quantity of plate, some gold rings, and four suits of clothes.
• 5:20:16
  Speaker 1: Not long after this, Edgeworth bess was apprehended and lodged
• 5:20:21
  Speaker 1: in the roundhouse of the parish of Saint Giles, where
• 5:20:24
  Speaker 1: Shepherd went to visit her, and the Beadle refusing to
• 5:20:28
  Speaker 1: admit him, he knocked him down, broke open the door
• 5:20:32
  Speaker 1: and carried her off in triumph, an exploit which acquired
• 5:20:36
  Speaker 1: him a high degree of credit with the women of
• 5:20:39
  Speaker 1: abandoned character. In the month of August seventeen twenty three,
• 5:20:43
  Speaker 1: Thomas Shepherd, the brother of Jack, was indicted in the
• 5:20:47
  Speaker 1: Old Bailey for two petty offenses, and, being convicted, was
• 5:20:51
  Speaker 1: burnt in the hand. Soon after his discharge, he prevailed
• 5:20:56
  Speaker 1: on Jack to lend him forty shillings and to take
• 5:20:59
  Speaker 1: him as a partner in his robberies. The first fact
• 5:21:02
  Speaker 1: they committed in concert was the robbing of a public
• 5:21:06
  Speaker 1: house in Suthock, whence they carried off some money and
• 5:21:09
  Speaker 1: wearing apparel. But Jack permitted his brother to reap the
• 5:21:13
  Speaker 1: whole advantage of this booty. Not long after this, the brothers,
• 5:21:18
  Speaker 1: in conjunction with Edgeworth, Bess broke open the shop of
• 5:21:22
  Speaker 1: Missus Cook, a linen draper in Clare Market, and carried
• 5:21:26
  Speaker 1: off goods to the value of fifty five pounds, and
• 5:21:29
  Speaker 1: in less than a fortnight afterwards, stole some articles from
• 5:21:33
  Speaker 1: the house of mister Phillips in Drury Lane. Tom Sheppard,
• 5:21:38
  Speaker 1: going to sell some of the goods stolen at Missus Cook's,
• 5:21:42
  Speaker 1: was apprehended and committed to Newgate. When in hope of
• 5:21:46
  Speaker 1: being admitted in evidence, he impeached his brother and Edgeworth Bess,
• 5:21:51
  Speaker 1: but they were sought for in vain at length. James Sykes,
• 5:21:55
  Speaker 1: otherwise called Helen Fury, one of Shepherd's companions, meeting with
• 5:22:00
  Speaker 1: him in Saint Giles, enticed him into a public house
• 5:22:04
  Speaker 1: in hope of receiving a reward for apprehending him, and
• 5:22:08
  Speaker 1: while they were drinking, Sykes sent for a constable, who
• 5:22:11
  Speaker 1: took Jack into custody and carried him before a magistrate, who, later,
• 5:22:16
  Speaker 1: after a short examination, sent him to Saint Giles round House,
• 5:22:21
  Speaker 1: but he broke through the roof of that place and
• 5:22:24
  Speaker 1: made his escape in the night. Within a short time
• 5:22:27
  Speaker 1: after this, a Shepherd and an associate named Benson were
• 5:22:31
  Speaker 1: crossing Lester fields. The latter endeavored to pick a gentleman's
• 5:22:35
  Speaker 1: pocket of his watch, but failing in the attempt, the
• 5:22:39
  Speaker 1: gentleman called out a pickpocket, on which Shepard was taken
• 5:22:43
  Speaker 1: and lodged in Saint Anne's roundhouse, where he was visited
• 5:22:46
  Speaker 1: by Edgeworth Bess, who was detained on suspicion of being
• 5:22:50
  Speaker 1: one of his accomplices. On the following day they were
• 5:22:54
  Speaker 1: carried before a magistrate and some persons appearing, who charged
• 5:22:58
  Speaker 1: them with felonies. They were committed to new Prison. As
• 5:23:02
  Speaker 1: they passed for husband and wife, they were permitted to
• 5:23:05
  Speaker 1: lodge together in a room known by the name of
• 5:23:08
  Speaker 1: Newgate Ward. Shepard being visited by several of his acquaintances,
• 5:23:14
  Speaker 1: some of whom furnished him with implements to make his escape,
• 5:23:18
  Speaker 1: and early in the morning a few days after his commitment,
• 5:23:22
  Speaker 1: he filed off his fetters, and having made a hole
• 5:23:25
  Speaker 1: in the wall, he took an iron bar and a
• 5:23:28
  Speaker 1: wooden one out of the window. But as the height
• 5:23:32
  Speaker 1: from which he was to descend was twenty five feet,
• 5:23:36
  Speaker 1: he tied a blanket and a sheet together, and making
• 5:23:39
  Speaker 1: one of them fast to a bar in the window.
• 5:23:42
  Speaker 1: Edgeworth Bess first descended and Jack followed her. Having reached
• 5:23:47
  Speaker 1: the yard, they still had a wall of twenty two
• 5:23:50
  Speaker 1: feet highe a scale, but climbing up by the locks
• 5:23:53
  Speaker 1: and bolts of the great gate, they got quite out
• 5:23:56
  Speaker 1: of the prison and affected a perfect escape. Shepherd's fame
• 5:24:01
  Speaker 1: was greatly celebrated among the lower orders of people by
• 5:24:04
  Speaker 1: this exploit, and the thieves of Saint Giles courted his company.
• 5:24:08
  Speaker 1: Among the rest was one Charles Grace, A cooper, begged
• 5:24:13
  Speaker 1: that he would take him as an associate in his robberies,
• 5:24:16
  Speaker 1: alleging as a reason for this request that his girl,
• 5:24:21
  Speaker 1: he kept, was so extravagant that he could not support
• 5:24:24
  Speaker 1: her on the profits of his own thefts. Shepard did
• 5:24:28
  Speaker 1: not hesitate to make this new connection, but at the
• 5:24:31
  Speaker 1: same time said that he did not admit of a
• 5:24:34
  Speaker 1: partnership with a view to any advantage to himself, but
• 5:24:39
  Speaker 1: that Grace might reap the profits of their depredations. Shepard
• 5:24:43
  Speaker 1: and Grace making an acquaintance with Anthony Lamb, an apprentice
• 5:24:48
  Speaker 1: to a mathematical instrument maker near Saint Clement's Church. It
• 5:24:52
  Speaker 1: was agreed to rob a gentleman who lodged with Lamb's
• 5:24:55
  Speaker 1: master and at two o'clock in the morning, Lamb led
• 5:24:59
  Speaker 1: in the other villains, who stole money and effects to
• 5:25:02
  Speaker 1: a large amount. They left the door open and Lamb
• 5:25:06
  Speaker 1: went to bed to prevent suspicion. But notwithstanding this, his
• 5:25:10
  Speaker 1: master did suspect him, and having taken him into custody,
• 5:25:16
  Speaker 1: he confessed the whole affair before a magistrate, and, being
• 5:25:20
  Speaker 1: committed to Newgate, he was tried, convicted, and received sentence
• 5:25:25
  Speaker 1: to be transported. On the same day, Thomas Shepherd, the
• 5:25:30
  Speaker 1: brother of Jack, was indicted for breaking open the dwelling
• 5:25:34
  Speaker 1: house of Mary Cook and stealing her goods, and being
• 5:25:38
  Speaker 1: convicted was sentenced to transportation. Jack Sheppard not being in custody,
• 5:25:44
  Speaker 1: he and Blueskin committed a number of daring robberies and
• 5:25:48
  Speaker 1: sometimes disposed of the stolen goods to William Field. Jack
• 5:25:53
  Speaker 1: used to say that Field wanted courage to commit robbery,
• 5:25:56
  Speaker 1: though he was as great a villain as Everiggs existed.
• 5:26:01
  Speaker 1: Shepard seems to have thought that courage consisted in villainy,
• 5:26:05
  Speaker 1: and if this were the case, Field had an undoubted
• 5:26:09
  Speaker 1: claim to the character of a man of courage, for
• 5:26:13
  Speaker 1: in October seventeen twenty one he was tried on four
• 5:26:18
  Speaker 1: indictments for felony and burglary, and he was an accomplice
• 5:26:22
  Speaker 1: in a variety of robberies. He was likewise in evidence
• 5:26:26
  Speaker 1: against one of his associates. On another occasion, Shepard and
• 5:26:30
  Speaker 1: Blueskin hired a stable near the horse Ferry, Westminster, in
• 5:26:35
  Speaker 1: which they deposited their stolen goods till they could dispose
• 5:26:39
  Speaker 1: of them to the best advantage. And in this place
• 5:26:44
  Speaker 1: they put the woolen cloth which was stolen from mister Neebone.
• 5:26:49
  Speaker 1: For Shepherd was concerned in this robbery, and at the
• 5:26:53
  Speaker 1: sessions held at the Old Bailey in August seventeen twenty four,
• 5:26:57
  Speaker 1: he was indicted for several offenses, and among the rest
• 5:27:01
  Speaker 1: for breaking and entering the house of William Kneebone and
• 5:27:04
  Speaker 1: stealing a hundred eight yards of woolen cloth and other articles,
• 5:27:09
  Speaker 1: and being capitally convicted, received sentence of death. We must
• 5:27:14
  Speaker 1: now go back to observe that Shepherd and Blueskin, having
• 5:27:18
  Speaker 1: applied to Field to look at these goods and procure
• 5:27:22
  Speaker 1: a customer for them, he promised to do so. Nor
• 5:27:26
  Speaker 1: was he worse than his word, for in the night
• 5:27:29
  Speaker 1: he broke open their warehouse and stole the ill gotten property,
• 5:27:34
  Speaker 1: and then gave information against them to Jonathan Wilde, in
• 5:27:38
  Speaker 1: consequence of which they were apprehended. On Monday the thirtieth
• 5:27:43
  Speaker 1: August seventeen twenty four, a warrant was sent to Newgate
• 5:27:49
  Speaker 1: for the execution of Shepherd with other convicts under sentence
• 5:27:53
  Speaker 1: of death. It is proper to observe that in the
• 5:27:58
  Speaker 1: old jail of Newgate there was within the lodge a
• 5:28:02
  Speaker 1: hatch with large iron spikes, which hatch opened into a
• 5:28:07
  Speaker 1: dark passage, whence there were a few steps into the
• 5:28:11
  Speaker 1: condemned hold, the prisoners being permitted to come down to
• 5:28:14
  Speaker 1: the hatch to speak with their friends. Shepherd, having been
• 5:28:18
  Speaker 1: supplied with instruments, took an opportunity of cutting one of
• 5:28:22
  Speaker 1: the spikes in such a manner that it might be
• 5:28:25
  Speaker 1: easily broken off. On the evening of the above mentioned
• 5:28:29
  Speaker 1: thirtieth of August, two women of Shepherd's acquaintance going to
• 5:28:33
  Speaker 1: visit him, he broke off the spike, and thrusting his
• 5:28:36
  Speaker 1: head and shoulders through the space, the women pulled him
• 5:28:40
  Speaker 1: down and he affected his escape. Notwithstanding some of the
• 5:28:44
  Speaker 1: keepers were at that time drinking at the other end
• 5:28:48
  Speaker 1: of the lodge. On the day after his escape, he
• 5:28:52
  Speaker 1: went to a public house in Spittlefields, whence he sent
• 5:28:55
  Speaker 1: for an old acquaintance, one Page, a butcher in Clare Market,
• 5:29:00
  Speaker 1: and advised with him how to render his escape effectual
• 5:29:04
  Speaker 1: for his future preservation. After deliberating on the matter, they
• 5:29:09
  Speaker 1: agreed to go to Warrenden in Northamptonshire, where Page had
• 5:29:14
  Speaker 1: some relations, and they had no sooner resolved than they
• 5:29:18
  Speaker 1: made the journey, but Page's relations treating him with indifference.
• 5:29:22
  Speaker 1: They returned to London after being absent only about a week.
• 5:29:26
  Speaker 1: On the night after their return, as they were walking
• 5:29:29
  Speaker 1: up Fleet Street together, they saw a watchmaker's shop open
• 5:29:33
  Speaker 1: and only a boy attending. Having passed the shop, they
• 5:29:37
  Speaker 1: turned back, and Shepherd, driving his hand through the window,
• 5:29:41
  Speaker 1: stole three watches with which they made their escape. Some
• 5:29:46
  Speaker 1: of Shepherd's old acquaintance informing him that strict search was
• 5:29:50
  Speaker 1: making after him. He and Page retired to Finchley in
• 5:29:54
  Speaker 1: hope of laying there concealed till the diligence of the
• 5:29:58
  Speaker 1: jail keepers should relax. But the keepers of Newgate, having
• 5:30:02
  Speaker 1: intelligence of their retreat, took Shepard into custody and conveyed
• 5:30:06
  Speaker 1: him to his old lodgings. Such steps were now taken,
• 5:30:10
  Speaker 1: as it was thought would be effectual to prevent his
• 5:30:14
  Speaker 1: future escape. He was put into a strong room called
• 5:30:18
  Speaker 1: the Castle, handcuffed, loaded with a heavy pair of irons,
• 5:30:23
  Speaker 1: and chained to a staple fixed in the floor. The
• 5:30:27
  Speaker 1: curiosity of the public having been greatly excited by his
• 5:30:30
  Speaker 1: former escape, he was visited by great numbers of people
• 5:30:34
  Speaker 1: of all ranks, and scarce any one left him without
• 5:30:38
  Speaker 1: making him a present in money, though he would have
• 5:30:41
  Speaker 1: more gladly received a file, a hammer or a chisel,
• 5:30:46
  Speaker 1: but the utmost care was taken that none of his
• 5:30:49
  Speaker 1: visitors should furnish him with such implements. Notwithstanding this disadvantageous situation,
• 5:30:56
  Speaker 1: Shepard was continually employing his thoughts on the means of
• 5:31:00
  Speaker 1: another escape. On the fourteenth of October, the sessions began
• 5:31:04
  Speaker 1: at the Old Bailey, and the keepers being much engaged
• 5:31:08
  Speaker 1: in attending the court, He thought they would have little
• 5:31:11
  Speaker 1: time to visit him, and therefore the present juncture would
• 5:31:15
  Speaker 1: be the most favorable to carry out his plan into execution.
• 5:31:20
  Speaker 1: About two o'clock in the afternoon of the following day,
• 5:31:23
  Speaker 1: one of the keepers carried him his dinner and having
• 5:31:26
  Speaker 1: carefully examined his irons, and finding them fast, he left
• 5:31:31
  Speaker 1: him for the day. Some days before this, Jack had
• 5:31:35
  Speaker 1: found a small nail in the room with which he
• 5:31:38
  Speaker 1: could at pleasure unlocked the padlock that went from the
• 5:31:42
  Speaker 1: chain to the staple on the floor, And in his
• 5:31:45
  Speaker 1: own account of the transaction, he says that he was
• 5:31:48
  Speaker 1: frequently about the room, and had several times slept on
• 5:31:51
  Speaker 1: the barracks. When the keepers imagined he had not been
• 5:31:55
  Speaker 1: out of the chair. The keeper had not left him
• 5:31:58
  Speaker 1: more than an hour when he began his operations. He
• 5:32:02
  Speaker 1: first took off his handcuffs and then opened the padlock
• 5:32:06
  Speaker 1: that fastened the chain to the staple. He next, by
• 5:32:09
  Speaker 1: mere strength, twisted asunder a small link of the chain
• 5:32:14
  Speaker 1: between his legs, and then, drawing up his fetters as
• 5:32:18
  Speaker 1: high as he could, he made them fast with his garters.
• 5:32:22
  Speaker 1: He then attempted to get up the chimney, but had
• 5:32:26
  Speaker 1: not advanced far before he was stopped by an iron
• 5:32:29
  Speaker 1: bar that went across it, on which he descended, and,
• 5:32:33
  Speaker 1: with a piece of broken chain, picked out the mortar,
• 5:32:37
  Speaker 1: and moving a small stone or two above six feet
• 5:32:41
  Speaker 1: from the floor, he got out the iron bar, which
• 5:32:45
  Speaker 1: was three feet long and an inch square, and proved
• 5:32:48
  Speaker 1: very serviceable to him in his future proceedings. He in
• 5:32:52
  Speaker 1: a short time made such a breach as to enable
• 5:32:56
  Speaker 1: him to get into the red room over the castle,
• 5:32:59
  Speaker 1: and here he found a large nail, which he made
• 5:33:02
  Speaker 1: use of in his farther operations. It was seven years
• 5:33:07
  Speaker 1: since the door of this red room had been opened,
• 5:33:10
  Speaker 1: but Shephard wrenched off the lock in less than seven
• 5:33:13
  Speaker 1: minutes and got into the passage leading to the chapel.
• 5:33:18
  Speaker 1: In this place he found a door which was bolted
• 5:33:20
  Speaker 1: on the opposite side, but making a hole through the wall,
• 5:33:25
  Speaker 1: he pushed the bolt back and opened the door. Arriving
• 5:33:29
  Speaker 1: at the door of the chapel, he broke off one
• 5:33:31
  Speaker 1: of the iron spikes, which, keeping for his farther use,
• 5:33:36
  Speaker 1: he got into the entry between the chapel and the
• 5:33:38
  Speaker 1: lower leads. The door of this entry was remarkably strong
• 5:33:44
  Speaker 1: and fastened with a large lock, and night now coming on,
• 5:33:48
  Speaker 1: Shephard was obliged to work in the dark. Notwithstanding this disadvantage,
• 5:33:53
  Speaker 1: he in a half hour forced open the box of
• 5:33:56
  Speaker 1: the lock and opened the door. But this led to
• 5:34:00
  Speaker 1: another room still more difficult, for it was barred and
• 5:34:03
  Speaker 1: bolted as well as locked. However, he wrenched the filet
• 5:34:08
  Speaker 1: from the main post of the door, and the box
• 5:34:11
  Speaker 1: and staples came off with it. It was now eight
• 5:34:15
  Speaker 1: o'clock and Shepherd found no farther obstruction to his proceedings,
• 5:34:20
  Speaker 1: for he had only one other door to open, which,
• 5:34:22
  Speaker 1: being bolted on the inside, was opened without difficulty, and
• 5:34:26
  Speaker 1: he got over the wall to the upper leads. His
• 5:34:30
  Speaker 1: next consideration was how he should descend with the greatest safety. Accordingly,
• 5:34:36
  Speaker 1: he found that the most convenient place for him to
• 5:34:38
  Speaker 1: alight on would be the Turner's house adjoining to Newgate,
• 5:34:43
  Speaker 1: But as it would have been very dangerous to have
• 5:34:46
  Speaker 1: jumped to such a depth, he went back for the
• 5:34:49
  Speaker 1: blanket with which he used to cover himself when he
• 5:34:52
  Speaker 1: slept in the castle, and endeavored to fasten his stockings
• 5:34:58
  Speaker 1: to the blanket to ease his descent, but not being
• 5:35:01
  Speaker 1: able to do so, he was compelled to use the
• 5:35:04
  Speaker 1: blanket alone, wherefore he made it fast to the wall
• 5:35:07
  Speaker 1: of Newgate. With the spike, he took out of the chapel, and,
• 5:35:11
  Speaker 1: sliding down, dropped on the Turner's leads just as the
• 5:35:15
  Speaker 1: clock was striking nine. It happened that the door of
• 5:35:19
  Speaker 1: the garret next to the turner's leads was open, on
• 5:35:22
  Speaker 1: which he stole softly down two pairs of stairs, and
• 5:35:27
  Speaker 1: heard some company talking in a room, his irons clinking.
• 5:35:31
  Speaker 1: A woman cried, what noise is that? And a man answered,
• 5:35:35
  Speaker 1: perhaps a dog or a cat. Shepard, who was exceedingly fatigued,
• 5:35:40
  Speaker 1: returned to the garret and lay down for more than
• 5:35:43
  Speaker 1: two hours, after which he crept down once more as
• 5:35:47
  Speaker 1: far as the room where the company were, when he
• 5:35:49
  Speaker 1: heard a gentleman taking his leave of the family, and
• 5:35:52
  Speaker 1: saw the maid light him down the stairs. As soon
• 5:35:56
  Speaker 1: as the maid returned, he resolved to venture at all hazards,
• 5:36:00
  Speaker 1: but in stealing down the stairs, he stumbled against a
• 5:36:03
  Speaker 1: chamber door, but instantly recovering himself, he got into the street.
• 5:36:09
  Speaker 1: By this time it was after twelve o'clock, and passing
• 5:36:12
  Speaker 1: by the watch house of Saint Sepulcher, he bid the
• 5:36:14
  Speaker 1: watchman good morrow, and going up Oldborne, he turned down
• 5:36:18
  Speaker 1: Gray's In Lane, and about two in the morning got
• 5:36:21
  Speaker 1: into the fields near Tottenham Court Road, where he took
• 5:36:24
  Speaker 1: shelter in a place that had been a cow house,
• 5:36:28
  Speaker 1: and slept soundly about three hours. His fetters, still being on.
• 5:36:33
  Speaker 1: His legs were greatly bruised and swelled, and he dreaded
• 5:36:36
  Speaker 1: the approach of daylight lest he should be discovered. He
• 5:36:40
  Speaker 1: had now above forty shillings in his possession, but was
• 5:36:44
  Speaker 1: afraid to send to any person for assistance. At seven
• 5:36:48
  Speaker 1: in the morning, it began to rain hard, and continued
• 5:36:52
  Speaker 1: to do so all day, so that no person appeared
• 5:36:55
  Speaker 1: in the fields. And during this melancholy day he would
• 5:36:59
  Speaker 1: to use his own expression, have given his right hand
• 5:37:03
  Speaker 1: for a hammer, a chisel and a punch. Night coming on,
• 5:37:08
  Speaker 1: and being pressed by hunger, he ventured to a little
• 5:37:11
  Speaker 1: chandler's shop in Tottenham Court Road, where he got a
• 5:37:14
  Speaker 1: supply of bread, cheese, small beer, and some other necessaries.
• 5:37:19
  Speaker 1: Hiding his irons with a long great coat, he asked
• 5:37:23
  Speaker 1: the woman of the house for a hammer, but she
• 5:37:26
  Speaker 1: had no such utensil, on which he retired to the
• 5:37:29
  Speaker 1: cow house, where he slept that night and remained all
• 5:37:32
  Speaker 1: the next day. At night, he went again to the
• 5:37:35
  Speaker 1: chandler shop, supplied himself with provisions, and returned to his
• 5:37:39
  Speaker 1: hiding place. At six the next morning, which was Sunday,
• 5:37:43
  Speaker 1: he began to beat the basels of his fetters with
• 5:37:46
  Speaker 1: a stone in order to bring them to an oval
• 5:37:50
  Speaker 1: form to slip his heels through. In the afternoon, the
• 5:37:54
  Speaker 1: master of the cow house, coming thither, and seeing his iron, said, forgot,
• 5:38:00
  Speaker 1: what are you? Shepard said, he was an unfortunate young fellow, who,
• 5:38:06
  Speaker 1: having had a bastard child sworn to him, and not
• 5:38:09
  Speaker 1: being able to give security to the parish for its support,
• 5:38:13
  Speaker 1: he had been sent to Bridewell, from whence he had
• 5:38:16
  Speaker 1: made his escape. The man said, if that was all,
• 5:38:20
  Speaker 1: it did not much signify, but he did not care
• 5:38:23
  Speaker 1: how soon he was gone, for he did not like
• 5:38:25
  Speaker 1: his looks. Soon after he was gone, shepherd saw a
• 5:38:31
  Speaker 1: journeyman shoemaker, to whom he told the same story of
• 5:38:35
  Speaker 1: the bastard child, and offered him twenty shillings if he
• 5:38:39
  Speaker 1: would procure a smith's hammer and a punch. The poor man,
• 5:38:43
  Speaker 1: tempted by the reward, procured them accordingly, and assisted him
• 5:38:47
  Speaker 1: in getting rid of his irons, which work was completed
• 5:38:51
  Speaker 1: by five o'clock in the evening. When night came on,
• 5:38:55
  Speaker 1: our adventurer tied a handkerchief round his head, tore his
• 5:38:59
  Speaker 1: woolen cap in several places, and likewise tore his coat
• 5:39:03
  Speaker 1: and stockings so as to have the appearance of a beggar,
• 5:39:08
  Speaker 1: And in this condition he went to a cellar near
• 5:39:11
  Speaker 1: Charing Cross, where he supped on roasted veal and listened
• 5:39:15
  Speaker 1: to the conversation of the company, all of whom were
• 5:39:18
  Speaker 1: talking about the escape of Shepherd. On the Monday, he
• 5:39:23
  Speaker 1: sheltered himself at a public house of little trade in
• 5:39:26
  Speaker 1: Rupert Street, and conversing with the landlady about Shepherd, he
• 5:39:30
  Speaker 1: told her that it was impossible for him to get
• 5:39:33
  Speaker 1: out of the kingdom, and the keepers would certainly have
• 5:39:37
  Speaker 1: him again in a few days, on which the woman
• 5:39:40
  Speaker 1: wished that a curse might fall on those who should
• 5:39:42
  Speaker 1: betray him. Remaining in this place till evening, he went
• 5:39:47
  Speaker 1: into the Haymarket, where a crowd of people were surrounding
• 5:39:50
  Speaker 1: two ballad singers and listening to a song made on
• 5:39:54
  Speaker 1: his adventures and escape. The next day he hired a
• 5:39:58
  Speaker 1: garret in Newport Mark Market, and soon afterwards, dressing himself
• 5:40:02
  Speaker 1: like a porter, he went to Blackfriars to the house
• 5:40:06
  Speaker 1: of mister appleby printer of Dying Speeches, and delivered a
• 5:40:10
  Speaker 1: letter in which he ridiculed the printer the ordinary of
• 5:40:14
  Speaker 1: Newgate and enclosed a letter for one of the keepers
• 5:40:17
  Speaker 1: of Newgate. Some nights after this he broke open the
• 5:40:21
  Speaker 1: shop of mister Rawlins, a pawnbroker in Drewry Lane, where
• 5:40:26
  Speaker 1: he stole a sword, a suit of wearing apparel, some
• 5:40:29
  Speaker 1: snuff boxes, rings, watches and other effects to a considerable amount.
• 5:40:34
  Speaker 1: Determining to make the appearance of a gentleman among his
• 5:40:37
  Speaker 1: old acquaintance in drew Rey Lane and Clare Market, he
• 5:40:41
  Speaker 1: dressed himself in a suit of black and a tie wig,
• 5:40:45
  Speaker 1: wore a ruffled shirt, a silver Hilter's sword, a diamond
• 5:40:48
  Speaker 1: ring and a gold watch, though he knew that diligent
• 5:40:53
  Speaker 1: search was being made after him at that very time.
• 5:40:57
  Speaker 1: On the thirty first of October, he dined with two
• 5:41:00
  Speaker 1: two women in a public house in Newgate Street, and
• 5:41:03
  Speaker 1: about four in the afternoon they all passed under Newgate
• 5:41:07
  Speaker 1: in a Hackney coach, having first drawn up the blinds.
• 5:41:11
  Speaker 1: Going in the evening to a public house in Maypole Alle,
• 5:41:14
  Speaker 1: Clare Market, Shepherd sent for his mother and treated her
• 5:41:18
  Speaker 1: with brandy. When the poor woman dropped on her knees
• 5:41:22
  Speaker 1: and begged he would immediately quit the kingdom, which he
• 5:41:25
  Speaker 1: promised to do, but had no intention of keeping his word.
• 5:41:29
  Speaker 1: Being now grown valiant through an excess of liquor, he
• 5:41:32
  Speaker 1: wandered from ale houses to gin shops in the neighborhood
• 5:41:35
  Speaker 1: till near twelve o'clock at night, when he was apprehended
• 5:41:39
  Speaker 1: in consequence of the information of an ale house boy
• 5:41:42
  Speaker 1: who knew him. When he was taken into custody, he
• 5:41:45
  Speaker 1: was quite senseless from the quantity and variety of liquors
• 5:41:49
  Speaker 1: he had drank, and was conveyed to Newgate in a
• 5:41:52
  Speaker 1: coach without being capable of making the least resistance, though
• 5:41:56
  Speaker 1: he had two pistols then in his possession. His fame
• 5:42:00
  Speaker 1: was now so much increased by his exploits that he
• 5:42:03
  Speaker 1: was visited by a great number of people, some of
• 5:42:06
  Speaker 1: them of the highest quality. He endeavored to divert them
• 5:42:10
  Speaker 1: with the recital of the particulars of his many robberies
• 5:42:13
  Speaker 1: in which he had been concerned, and when any nobleman
• 5:42:17
  Speaker 1: came to see him, he never failed to beg that
• 5:42:20
  Speaker 1: they would intercede with the King for a pardon, to
• 5:42:23
  Speaker 1: which he thought that his singular dexterity gave him some pretensions.
• 5:42:28
  Speaker 1: Having been already convicted, he was carried to the bar
• 5:42:31
  Speaker 1: of the Court of King's Bench on the tenth of November,
• 5:42:35
  Speaker 1: and the record of his conviction being read, and an
• 5:42:38
  Speaker 1: affidavit being made that he was the same John Shepherd
• 5:42:42
  Speaker 1: mentioned in the record, sentence of death was passed on
• 5:42:46
  Speaker 1: him by mister Justice Powis, and a rule of court
• 5:42:50
  Speaker 1: was made for his execution on the Monday following. He
• 5:42:55
  Speaker 1: regularly attended the prayers in the chapel, but though he
• 5:42:58
  Speaker 1: behaved with decency there, he effected mirth before he went thither,
• 5:43:03
  Speaker 1: and endeavored to prevent any degree of seriousness among the prisoners.
• 5:43:07
  Speaker 1: On his return. Even when the day of execution arrived,
• 5:43:11
  Speaker 1: Shepard did not appear to have given over all expectations
• 5:43:15
  Speaker 1: of eluding justice, For having been furnished with a pen knife,
• 5:43:19
  Speaker 1: he put it in his pocket with a view, when
• 5:43:22
  Speaker 1: the melancholy procession came opposite Little Turnstile, to have cut
• 5:43:26
  Speaker 1: the cord that bound his arms, and throwing himself out
• 5:43:29
  Speaker 1: of the cart among the crowd, to have run through
• 5:43:33
  Speaker 1: the narrow passage where the sheriff's officers could not follow
• 5:43:36
  Speaker 1: on horseback, And he had no doubt but that he
• 5:43:40
  Speaker 1: should make his escape by the assistance of the mob.
• 5:43:44
  Speaker 1: It is not impossible but that this scheme might have succeeded.
• 5:43:48
  Speaker 1: But before Shepherd left the press yard, one Watson, an
• 5:43:52
  Speaker 1: officer searching his pockets, found the knife, and was cut
• 5:43:57
  Speaker 1: with it so as to occasion a great few of blood.
• 5:44:02
  Speaker 1: Shepherd had yet a farther view to his preservation even
• 5:44:07
  Speaker 1: after execution, for he desired his acquaintance to put him
• 5:44:11
  Speaker 1: into a warm bed as soon as he should be
• 5:44:14
  Speaker 1: cut down, and try to open a vein which he
• 5:44:18
  Speaker 1: had been told would restore him to life. He behaved
• 5:44:21
  Speaker 1: with great decency at the place of execution and confessed
• 5:44:25
  Speaker 1: the having committed two robberies for which he had been
• 5:44:28
  Speaker 1: tried and acquitted. He was executed at Tyburn on the
• 5:44:32
  Speaker 1: sixteenth of November seventeen twenty four, in the twenty third
• 5:44:36
  Speaker 1: year of age. He died with difficulty and was much
• 5:44:40
  Speaker 1: pitied by the surrounding multitude. When he was cut down.
• 5:44:44
  Speaker 1: His body was delivered to his friends, who carried him
• 5:44:47
  Speaker 1: to a public house in long Acre, whence he was
• 5:44:50
  Speaker 1: removed in the evening and buried in the churchyard of
• 5:44:53
  Speaker 1: Saint Martin's in the Fields. It is astonishing to think
• 5:44:58
  Speaker 1: how much Shepherd and his adventures engage the attention of
• 5:45:02
  Speaker 1: the public. For a considerable time, there was scarcely a
• 5:45:05
  Speaker 1: subject of conversation but himself. There were several different histories
• 5:45:10
  Speaker 1: of his life, and a variety of prints were worked
• 5:45:13
  Speaker 1: off representing his escapes from the condemned hold and from
• 5:45:17
  Speaker 1: the Castle and Newgate, And there were likewise several other
• 5:45:21
  Speaker 1: prints of his person, the best of which was a
• 5:45:25
  Speaker 1: mezzo tinto done from an original painting of Sir James Thornhill,
• 5:45:30
  Speaker 1: which gave rise to the following ingenious lines. Thornhill tis
• 5:45:35
  Speaker 1: thine to gild the fame, though obscure, and raise the
• 5:45:39
  Speaker 1: humble name, to make the form, elude the grave, and
• 5:45:43
  Speaker 1: shepherd from oblivion. Save though life in vain, the wretch
• 5:45:49
  Speaker 1: implores and exile on the farthest shores. Thy pencil brings
• 5:45:54
  Speaker 1: a kind reprieve and bids the dying robber leave this
• 5:46:00
  Speaker 1: peace to latest time, shall stand and show the wonders
• 5:46:04
  Speaker 1: of thy hand. Thus former masters graced their name and
• 5:46:09
  Speaker 1: gave egregious robbers fame appels. Alexander Drew Caesar is to Aurelius,
• 5:46:17
  Speaker 1: do Cromwell in Lily's work, doth shine, and shepherd Thornhill
• 5:46:24
  Speaker 1: lives in Thine. This is the end of the eleventh
• 5:46:28
  Speaker 1: and final part of the new and complete Newgate Calendar.