Volume 1

The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and other exemplary punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to the present time / by William Jackson.

  • Jackson, William, of the Inner Temple.
Date:
[1795]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and other exemplary punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to the present time / by William Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    beaux in the paflage, which had burnt the boards •, then opening a parlour-door, the flames fpread with fuch rapidity that the family had only time .to preferve tht;ir lives, A poor wornao going by at the time, and feeing the fmoke, knocked at the door to alarm the fa- mily., and at that inftant faw a man come over the wall, (fuppofed to be Brian) who faid to her a ]3—n you, are you drunk ? What do you do “ here knocking at the people’s doors at this “ time ?” and immedia,tely he went away. ^ Moreover it came out in evidence that the pri- foner had offered to fell the etwee-cafe to Mclfrs. Stevenfon and Adlon, Goldfmiths, for eight pounds; but they flopped it on fulpicion that it was ftolen, and, on enquiry, found to whom it belonged. The prifoner afterwards returning to demand it, they took him into cuftody, and being carried before a magillrate, and fearched, a dag- ger and two piftols were found on him. As the goldfmiths lufpedled it to be ftolen, it may feem extraordinary that they did not flop the prifoner at firft: but this was not cuftomary ninety years ago. It is a do(5lrine well worthy no- tice, that in cafe of felony, every man is a confta- ble, and runs no hazard in taking the fufpeded party into cuftody. From the teftimony of other evidences it appear- ed that when the prifoner quitted the fervice of Mr. Perfuade, he took a lodging in Soho, but was not at home on the night that the fadls were committed •, and at noon on the following day he quitted this lodging, and took another in Spital- fields, to which he conveyed a trunk, a box, and a-bundle, which were found to contain part of Mr. Perfuade’s effeds. It
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