The Newgate Calendar Edited By Donal Ó Danachair Supplement 2 Published by the Ex-classics Project, 2016 http://www.exclassics.com Public Domain THE NEWGATE CALENDAR CONTENTS GERALD FITZGERALD Executed For Murder, 24th of December, 1703 ...............10 JOHN BIGG Convicted of Altering a Bank Note ........................................................11 JOHN GORDON, WILLIAM KERR AND JOHN DORRELL Jacobites Executed for High Treason ...............................................................................................................12 JOHN MATTHEWS Executed for High Treason in Printing a Jacobite Pamphlet...13 FRANCIS BRIGHTWELL AND BENJAMIN BRIGHTWELL Tried For a Highway Robbery........................................................................................................................15 ANTHONY DRURY Executed for Highway Robbery ...............................................18 JAMES CARNEGIE, ESQ. Tried for Murder.............................................................20 MARTIN NOWLAND Executed for High Treason....................................................22 JAMES ANNESLEY, ESQ, AND JOSEPH REDDING Tried for Murder................24 RICHARD BIGGS Executed near Bath for the Murder of his Wife, 14th September, 1748..............................................................................................................................28 JOHN LANCASTER Executed for Housebreaking, 24th September, 1748................29 SAMUEL HILL Executed for Murdering his Landlady, 23d of March, 1762............31 JOHN ANDREWS Executed for Forgery, 23d of March, 1752 .................................33 JOHN POULTER ALIAS BAXTER Executed For Highway Robbery......................35 JOHN BRETT Executed For Forgery.........................................................................42 JOHN SMITH AND ROBERT MAYNE Executed for a Mutiny on Board the King George, 10th May, 1762 ...............................................................................................45 JOHN KELLO Executed for Forgery, 13th October 1755...........................................46 THOMAS USHER Executed for Robbery, 4th May, 1764...........................................49 WILLIAM JAQUES Executed for the Murder of a Black Man, August, 1764...........50 RICHARD SWIFT Transported for Buying Stolen Goods .........................................51 ELIZABETH BURROUGHS Executed for Murder, April 4th, 1766..........................53 JOHN M'CLOUD Executed for the Murder Of Mr. Stoddard, October 24th, 1768 ....54 MICHAEL SAMPSON Forger, whose Death Sentence Was Commuted to Transportation because he Had Saved a Nobleman's Servants from Drowning.........55 JAMES MURPHY AND JOHN DOGAN Executed for Being Concerned in Wilkes's Riots, July 11th, 1768....................................................................................................57 MOSES ALEXANDER Executed For Forgery although Innocent, 9th August, 176959 CHARLES DAVID MORGAN, DAVID MORGAN, WILLIAM SPIGGOT, WILLIAM WALTER EVAN, WILLIAM MORRIS, AND DAVID LEWELLIN Executed for the Murder Of Mr. Powell, March 30th, 1770 ........................................62 JOHN STRETTON Executed for Robbing the Mail, 1st August, 1770........................65 -2- SUPPLEMENT 2 RICHARD MORGAN Executed for Privately Stealing, 27th May, 1772 ...................68 EDWARD BIRCH AND MATTHEW MARTIN Executed for Forgery, 2nd January, 1772..............................................................................................................................71 WILLIAM EDWARDS WHITE Executed for Murder, 25th October, 1772 ..............75 ROBERT POWEL Executed for Forgery, 2nd January, 1772.....................................77 JOSEPH GUYANT AND JOSEPH ALLPRESS Executed for Robbing the Mail, 8th July, 1772.....................................................................................................................80 JOSEPH COOPER Executed for Robbing his Master, 30th June, 1772......................83 LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WILLIAM GANSEL Tried for Firing a Pistol at John Hyde, 8th September, 1773 ...........................................................................................85 ISAAC DARKING, Alias DUMAS Executed for Highway Robbery, 16th April, 1761 ......................................................................................................................................87 SAMUEL MALE Executed for Robbery, 25th March, 1773 .......................................91 JOHN CHALLENOR Executed for Parricide 23rd August, 1773 ..............................93 CHARLES MILLS AND JOHN PUGH Executed for Highway Robbery, 7th November, 1774 ...........................................................................................................94 WILLIAM HAWKE Executed for Highway Robbery, 1st July, 1774 .........................96 WILLIAM FARMERY Executed for the Murder of his Mother, 5th August, 1775 ....98 MESSRS. RUMBOLD AND SYKES Members of Parliament for Hindon, in Wiltshire, Imprisoned for Bribery, in the Year 1776 ...................................................99 JOHN MADDY, or MANNING Another Case of Adultery......................................102 FRANCIS DAVID STIRN Convicted of Murder, but Poisoned Himself in Newgate, 12th Sept, 1760............................................................................................................103 WILLIAM ODELL, A SOLDIER, AND JOHN DEMPSEY, A SAILOR Executed at Tyburn, September 15, 1760, for Murder ..................................................................111 THE MAYOR OF BODMIN, IN CORNWALL Barbarously Executed in the Reign of Edward VI ..................................................................................................................112 JAMES NICKOLSON Murderer, convicted fifteen years after the murder.............114 COUNTRY RIOTS, OWING TO THE HIGH PRICE OF PROVISIONS IN THE YEAR 1766 With an Account of The Execution of Some of the Rioters....................115 EDWARD AND JANE M'GINNIS Brother and Sister Executed at Tyburn, July 18, 1766, for Burglary .....................................................................................................121 ISAAC LONG And Other Sham Doctors..................................................................122 JAMES FRITH Convicted of Robbing His Master's House, in the Dead of the Night, and Transported in the Year 1772 .............................................................................124 WILLIAM KELLY Executed near Gloucester, and His Body Hung in Chains, September the 28th, 1772, for Murder.......................................................................128 -3- THE NEWGATE CALENDAR WILLIAM WELCH AND PETER CONWAY Two Boys, the first fourteen, and the latter nine years of Age, Tried at the Old Bailey, for a Highway Robbery on the Person of a Female Infant, still Younger...................................................................129 NICHOLAS MALLARD Sentenced to Three Years Imprisonment, for an Assault Committed in a Singular Attempt to Commit a Robbery on the 16th Of April 1774 .131 WILLIAM CARR Convicted in the Ecclesiastical Court for Slander, May 4, 1774, and Sentenced to be Imprisoned Four Years .............................................................132 STRICTURES ON THE OBSERVATIONS OF MR. HOWARD Respecting Prisons, and the Treatment of Prisoners..................................................................................134 CHARLES PIPKINS Executed at Tyburn, October 23, 1776, for Burglary.............138 HYMAN ISAACKS An English Jew, Executed at Ostend, in the year 1777, for Forging on the Bank of England................................................................................139 JOSHUA CROMPTON Executed at Gangly-Green, near Guildford, in Surrey, July 31, 1778, for Forging Bank of England Notes...........................................................140 FRANCES PEARCE Convicted of Privately Stealing, in October Sessions, 1778, at the Old Bailey, and Sentenced to be Imprisoned for Three Years.............................141 WILLIAM FLINT A Pick-Pocket, Twice Sentenced to Hard Labour on the River Thames, for Privately Stealing...................................................................................142 WILLIAM MEYER, ESQ. Executed at York, April, 6 1781, for Murder.................144 JOHN LEE, ESQ. Who, from the Honourable Post of Captain in the British Army, Degenerated into the Humiliating Employ of a Strolling Player, wherein he Committed Forgery; and for which he was Executed at Tyburn, on the fourth of March, 1784...............................................................................................................145 JOSEPH RICHARDS A Most Ungrateful and Barbarous Villain, Executed at Kentish Town, near London, February 27, 1786, for Murder ................................................147 THE MILKMEN OF LONDON And Their Impositions upon the Public.................148 ROBERT JAQUES Convicted at the Old Bailey, July 11, 1790, of Being a Party in a Conspiracy against the Warden of the Fleet Prison, and Sentenced to be Imprisoned and Pilloried ..............................................................................................................150 JAMES WATTS A Quaker, convicted of Robbing his Employer, at the Manchester Quarter Session for 1787...........................................................................................157 JOHN MEAD The Boy Incendiary, Executed before Newgate, August 31, 1791, for Setting Fire to his Master's House.............................................................................158