Chronicles of
The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 2/2 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：90
字数：1,806,848 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 90 段- The military at length appeared, and many of the rioters wer
- "Among other things, it was proposed at one of the meetings
- By his own admission Thornton was with her at four o'clock,
- Robert Johnston was a native of Edinburgh, where he spent th
- Our readers will be somewhat prepared for the case of these
- "My lords, you ask me what I have to say why I should not re
- Richard Tidd, singularly enough, was born at Grantham, in th
- James had three sisters and two brothers. The daughters emul
- He then made for Annan, and reached that place before the al
- John Thurtell, the principal actor in the affair, was the so
- "I occupied a cottage in Gill's Hill Lane for six months bef
- "My Lord, and Gentlemen of the Jury--Under greater difficult
- With regard to the inducement which we have already noticed
- "My father established the banking-house in 1792, in conjunc
- The information which was first published of this remarkable
- The particulars of their apprehension are rather curious. It
- A second indictment, charging him with stabbing his wife, wa
- The wretched man is, we believe, still alive, and residing i
- We are unable to present the reader with any distinct or pos
- The case came on at the Old Bailey sessions, on Friday the 2
- the father of the child to fulfil a promise which he had mad
- He subsequently appeared much easier in his mind, and attend
- It would appear that a considerable number of forged bills o
- On account of the greatly increased amount obtained for subj
- He and his fellow prisoner, M'Dougal, were then immediately
- With such a belief almost universally pervading society, it
- Mr. Bolland (with whom was Mr. Alley) stated the case. He ob
- The aid of the London police was immediately obtained with a
- The other prisoners were apprehended nearly at the same time
- The minor details of the measure were to be carried out by t
- She wrote to Mr. Long, and in a day or two he called. Mrs. R
- I am a surgeon; I visited Mrs. Lloyd some time before her de
- In her further cross-examination, she affirmed she wrote to
- A point of law was raised as to the propriety of these convi
- About the beginning of the year 1831, a courtship commenced
- On the way to Maidstone, the prisoner acknowledged the truth
- It would appear that on Friday the 12th of the month, two me
- When, at four o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, the 14th
- The first witness called was William Hill, the porter at the
- May said, "he wished to say what he knew, and would speak th
- "Prisoners at the bar, you have been tried by a most attenti
- "I declare that this statement is all true, and contains all
- We believe that there is no reason to doubt the truth of his
- Of a piece with the proceedings of this fellow, were those o
- But while in the metropolis no acts of serious mischief were
- At about four o'clock, when the shades of night were rapidly
- On Tuesday, William Clarke, Patrick Kearney, James Williams,
- It was on Wednesday the 25th of January that the court-marti
- Mr. Paas, it appears, was a respectable tradesman carrying o
- During the subsequent imprisonment of Cook in Leicester jail
- In the course of the ensuing morning, the skiff which had be
- _P. 367._]
- "He must be a bad merchant, tradesman, or agriculturist," sa
- On Wednesday, May the 15th, an inquest was held before Mr. S
- She occupied a small cottage at a place called Botusfleming,
- This delay, the cause of which was intimated to the convicts
- In pursuance of his sentence he was conveyed from Newgate to
- In the course of the subsequent investigation of the case, i
- Both convicts were men of an inferior station, but there was
- To support this case, a clear and connected chain of evidenc
- That discovery which alone was wanting to satisfy the public
- The Lord Chief Justice began to sum up at a quarter past six
- On Wednesday, the 26th of April, the case of Greenacre was r
- The "new-invented machine" referred to in the advertisement,
- Subsequent inquiries led to the belief that two young men, n
- Shortly before the dreadful affray in which he lost his life
- When all were thus secured, one end of the rope was tied rou
- In a few hours, however, an authorised agent of Messrs. Mars
- The positions and rank of all the persons connected with thi
- Information was immediately given to the police authorities,
- The cause of violence had been too strenuously urged upon th
- "Public-office, Monday July 15, 1839, 11 a.m.
- "Up to this period the current of Mr. Frost's life seems to
- Having then referred at great length to the law affecting th
- Chief Justice Tindal addressed the prisoners in the followin
- The prisoners were charged with a conspiracy to violate the
- The Attorney-general, in opening the case to the jury, read
- who had a gun in his hand, took it gently from him, and aske
- A minute examination of the house of the deceased then took
- On the following morning, at about half-past six o'clock, Sa
- Other evidence, by which the stockings were proved to have b
- "On Wednesday, when the police had searched a little everywh
- The Attorney-General opened the case to the jury in the foll
- The evidence for the prosecution was then gone through in co
- The main circumstances of the case were, that on the 20th of
- The Earl of Cardigan in the year 1840 held the rank of
- The attorney-general addressed their lordships as follows:--
- The circumstances which transpired in the course of the inve
- Ronald Maxwell said--I sailed as first-mate in the Dryad on
- At the time of the inquest the nature of the "thing" to whic