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THE NEWGATE CALENDAR Edited by Donal Ó Danachair Volume 4 Published by the Ex-classics Project, 2009 http://www.exclassics.com Public Domain -1- THE NEWGATE CALENDAR A View of the Interior of Newgate -2- VOLUME 4 CONTENTS THOMAS WATKINS Executed in the Market-Place of Windsor, 7th of March, 1764, for Murder....................................................................................................................10 WILLIAM CORBETT An American, executed at Tyburn, 4th of April, 1764, for the Murder of his Landlord and his Family.......................................................................11 MAJOR COLIN CAMPBELL Cashiered for the murder of Captain M'Kaarg, 176412 JOHN WESKET AND JOHN COOPER The Former was executed at Tyburn, 9th of January, 1765, for robbing his Master, the Earl of Harrington; and the Latter transported for Fourteen Years for receiving Stolen Goods .......................................15 BARNEY CARROL AND WILLIAM KING Convicted under the Coventry Act for cutting and maiming, and executed at Tyburn, 31st of July, 1765 ..............................17 PATRICK OGILVIE AND CATHARINE NAIRN Convicted of Murder. Ogilvie hanged 13th November, 1765, but Nairn escaped from custody. ................................19 PETER M'KINLIE, GEORGE GIDLEY, ANDREW ZEKERMAN, AND RICHARD ST. QUINTIN Executed for Piracy and Murder, December 19th, 1765 ....................23 WILLIAM WHITTLE Excited by religious zeal he murdered his wife and children and was executed April 5th, 1766................................................................................28 JOHN CROUCH AND WIFE Convicted for offering to sell, on the Royal Exchange, a Young Girl, 12th of May, 1766 .................................................................................29 THE COUNTESS OF BRISTOL, OTHERWISE THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON Whose Trial for Bigamy, at Westminster Hall, was attended by the Queen and other Members of the Royal Family......................................................................................30 SAMUEL ORTON Clerk to the Court of Requests, executed 14th of January,1767, for forging Two Letters of Attorney, in the Name of Captain Bishop, by means of which he received One Thousand Pounds from the Bank of England.........................49 JOHN WILLIAMSON A deliberate and cruel Murderer, who tortured and starved his Wife to Death. Executed in Moorfields, 19th of January, 1767 .............................51 ELIZABETH BROWNRIGG Executed at Tyburn, 14th of September, 1767, for torturing her Female Apprentices to Death.................................................................53 WILLIAM GUEST Executed at Tyburn, 14th of October, 1767, for High Treason, in diminishing the Current Coin of the Realm .................................................................59 JOHN POWER, Alias WINN Pirate, hanged at Execution Dock, 10th March, 1768 60 JAMES SAMPSON A treacherous and base Villain, executed at Tyburn, 11th of March, 1768, for robbing and setting fire to his Benefactor's House .........................62 FREDERIC LORD BALTIMORE, ELIZABETH GRIFFENBURG, AND ANNE HARVEY The former tried for committing a rape on Sarah Woodcock, and the two latter as accessories before the fact, 26th March, 1768..............................................64 JAMES GIBSON A Gentleman, executed at Tyburn, 23rd of March, 1768, for Forgery on the Bank of England..................................................................................77 JOHN WILKES, ESQ., M.P. Whose arrest and conviction for writing seditious and blasphemous pamphlets led to riots in London in 1768. .............................................78 WILLIAM HAWKINS AND JOSEPH WILD Indicted for rioting, July, 1768 .........83 -3- THE NEWGATE CALENDAR SARAH METYARD AND SARAH MORGAN METYARD, HER DAUGHTER Executed at Tyburn, 19th of July, 1768, for the Cruel Murders of Parish Apprentices ......................................................................................................................................85 ELIZABETH RICHARDSON Executed at Tyburn, 21st of December, 1768, for murdering an Attorney-at-Law, in Symond's Inn, Chancery Lane ..............................88 WILLIAM TAUNTON Executed for the murder of Mrs. Phipps, 11th September, 1769..............................................................................................................................90 MUNGO CAMPBELL A Gentleman, who was convicted of killing the Earl of Eglinton, and to avoid an Ignominious Death hanged himself, 28th of February, 1770 ......................................................................................................................................93 Mr BARETTI An Italian, who was indicted for the wilful Murder of Evan Morgan, and acquitted................................................................................................................96 JAMES ATTAWAY AND RICHARD BAILEY Executed at Tyburn, 4th of July, 1770, for committing a Burglary after tying up the Butler........................................101 PETER CONWAY AND MICHAEL RICHARDSON Executed at Tyburn, 19th of July, 1770, for a Murder which was their first Essay in Crime.................................102 CAPTAIN DAVID FERGUSON Hanged in chains at Execution Dock, 5th January 1771, for the murder of his cabin-boy. ......................................................................104 PETER M'CLOUD Hanged for Housebreaking, on 27th of May, 1771, before he had attained the Age of Sixteen.........................................................................................106 JOHN EYRE, ESQ. Transported, in 1771, for stealing Paper out of the Guildhall of the City of London......................................................................................................108 DR LEVI WEIL, ASHER WEIL, JACOB LAZARUS AND SOLOMON PORTER A Gang of Robbers who committed Murder, and were executed at Tyburn, 9th of December, 1771 .........................................................................................................109 HENRY JONES, FRANCIS PHOENIX AND CHARLES BURTON Executed at Tyburn, 3rd of February, 1772, for Burglary at the House of Sir Robert Ladbroke, a City Banker ................................................................................................................111 JAMES BOLLAND A Sheriff Officer, and a most unconscionable Villain, executed at Tyburn, 18th of March, 1772, for Forgery ................................................................114 JONATHAN BRITAIN A plausible Rascal, who was executed at Bristol, 15th of May, 1772, for Forgery..............................................................................................120 JOHN ADSHEAD AND BENJAMIN ALSWORTH Hanged for housebreaking, 8th July, 1772...................................................................................................................122 SAMUEL ROBERTS and THOMAS BACCHUS Hanged for High Treason, in counterfeiting the current Coin of this Realm............................................................126 WILLIAM GRIFFITHS Executed at Tyburn, 20th of January, 1773, for a Highway Robbery......................................................................................................................129 GEORGE BARRINGTON A Well-Dressed Pickpocket who "worked" in Churches and the Houses of Parliament, and was convicted on 15th of March, 1773 .............131 JOHN LENNARD Executed for Rape, 11th August, 1773 .......................................133 WILLIAM FIELD ALIAS GREEN Executed on Kennington Common, 1st of September, 1773, for Highway Robbery....................................................................135 WILLIAM COX Who played Marbles and kept a Pet Sparrow to aid him in the Commission of Robberies. Executed at Tyburn, 27th of October, 1773....................137 -4- VOLUME 4 ELIZABETH HARRIET GREEVE A clever Swindler, transported for Felony, in the Year 1773...................................................................................................................139 JOHN RANN Commonly called "Sixteen-String Jack." Executed at Tyburn, 30th of November, 1774, for Highway Robbery ....................................................................140 AMOS MERRITT Having saved an Innocent Man from the Gallows, he himself was executed at Tyburn, 10th of January, 1775, for Burglary .........................................145 JOHN BOLTON Convicted of murdering a girl he had seduced and made pregnant, but cheated justice by committing suicide, 29th March, 1775...................................146 LAMBERT READING Hackney-Coachman and Leader of a Gang of Robbers, executed at Chelmsford, 10th of August, 1775, for Burglary ....................................149 WILLIAM CORBETT An American, executed at Tyburn, 4th of April, 1764, for the Murder of his Landlord and his Family.....................................................................150 MAJOR COLIN CAMPBELL Cashiered for the murder of Captain M'Kaarg, 1764 ....................................................................................................................................151 JOHN WESKET AND JOHN COOPER The Former was executed at Tyburn, 9th of January, 1765, for robbing his Master, the Earl of Harrington; and the Latter transported for Fourteen Years for receiving Stolen Goods .....................................154 BARNEY CARROL AND WILLIAM KING Convicted under the Coventry Act for cutting and maiming, and executed at Tyburn, 31st of July, 1765 ............................156
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