Chronicles of
The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2 being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841.
作者：Pelham, Camden; Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882 [Illustrator]
体例：段 章数：83
字数：1,675,055 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 83 段- The prisoner was within a few days brought to trial, under t
- When he perfectly recovered his senses, he was asked what we
- It is not a little remarkable that two instances should have
- In the course of the evidence it appeared that Price met the
- As he had some important affairs to settle, from the nature
- Such steps were now taken as it was thought would be effectu
- By this time it was after twelve o'clock, and passing by the
- "Taking the woman through St. Paul's churchyard, she desired
- "And whereas there are divers persons who have secret acquai
- In the meantime the head had been discovered, and the circum
- John Duke of Argyle and the Earl of Stair were at this time
- The adventures of the first-named of these criminals exhibit
- Their next attack was upon the house of Mr. Shelden, near Cr
- Flushed with the success of the adventure, our heroine deter
- Oliver Bodkin, Esq. was a gentleman who possessed a good est
- "On Tuesday the 15th of April the rebels burnt Fort Augustus
- That this sentence was not ill deserved, appears from a spee
- He said that a trifling quarrel happening between them on th
- This offender was born of respectable parents, who gave him
- After the strangers had taken some refreshment, and were abo
- Captain Cranstoun was the son of Lord Cranstoun, a Scotch pe
- On the morning of the 7th June, 1753, the unhappy man was ca
- Upon the passing of this law, Keith, the parson who has alre
- On the 8th of February 1745, in conjunction with a man named
- The following papers were afterwards found in his handwritin
- The neighbours now began to take measures to secure the murd
- John M'Naughton, Esq. was the son of a merchant at Derry, wh
- In the committee of ways and means, in the House of Commons,
- On a particular occasion, when she was almost starving with
- In obedience to the custom of the times, the young lord proc
- It would be useless to offer any observations upon this extr
- They dragged the wounded man out of the room to the head of
- A young woman named Boss resided in an apartment on the seco
- He was soon destined to be again in custody, however, and on
- The trial then proceeded.--The principal evidences were the
- No sooner were the funeral rites performed than the duchess
- Cæsar Hawkins, Esq. deposed that he had been acquainted wit
- He had said he had taken a view of most of the dock-yards an
- At this period Dr. Dodd appears to have been in the zenith o
- "As we went from his room, in our way to the chapel, we were
- During the procession to the fatal tree at Tyburn he seemed
- Many of the rioters were apprehended, and having been recogn
- John Darbyshire deposed, that he had been a prisoner in Warw
- The simplicity of the young man whom he had thus duped into
- The evidence of Miss Sarah Porter, the sister of the last wi
- To effect this enterprise they were compelled to calculate t
- The Convention, indeed, was dispersed by the spirited conduc
- Both prisoners, it appears, had been convicted of burglary,
- From the evidence which was adduced, it appeared that Mr. Sp
- Parker, as has been said, made a will, leaving to his wife a
- To return, however, to the Company. The money which had been
- Finding that he was no longer welcome to the house of his la
- The mode of robbery which this man adopted, was that of empl
- The following pathetic history of Miss Curran, after the dea
- The crowd at the entrance of Horsemonger-lane was immense; a
- On the following night he returned, bringing with him three
- These things continued for several nights, when it came to t
- This wretched man was hanged for the murder of his daughter,
- This closed the intercourse between his lordship and his cor
- "In an evil hour the British Colonel associated with him, in
- "I beg leave to assure your lordship that I never bore Mr. C
- After the dead, dying, and wounded, were carried away, there
- Upon the attendance of two professional men, they found that
- The examination of the witnesses, who were called to support
- Within two months after her marriage, she was found to have
- This story succeeded so well, that the father of the boy too
- The more secret arts of witchcraft having failed to effect t
- "During an abode," says he, "of ten months in London, as I w
- "The next morning I attended the office as usual, but of cou
- "In the same ward with myself were confined two brothers, ve
- The secret of Roberts' escape was not discovered for a consi
- In the mean time the murders had caused a most extraordinary
- It appears that the prisoner had long been known as a dealer
- Bellingham having, by some means or other, procured his libe
- He was on his way to attend the House of Commons on the even
- "'SIR,--I am directed by Mr. Secretary Ryder to acknowledge
- On the Wednesday, George Mellor, of Longroyd Bridge, and Wil
- "We never witnessed," says one who saw it, "such a scene of
- Semple, it appears, was born in Scotland in 1759, of a respe
- Roger Gadsden said, I am an apprentice to Mr. Turner. I reme
- A person of the name of Taylor, being desirous of borrowing
- "In the painful and anxious situation in which I am unhappil
- Again the whole court was convulsed with laughter; but the w