Category: History - British
The combat with crime is as old as civilization. Unceasing warfare is and ever has been waged between the law-maker and the law-breaker. The punishments inflicted upon criminals have been as various as the nations devising them, and have reflected with singular fidelity their...
Reasons for legal punishments—Early forms—Capital punishment universal—Methods of inflicting death—Awful cruelties—The English custom—Pressing to death—Abolition of this punishm...
10. CHAPTER IXCrimes more commonplace, but more atrocious—Murder committed by Catherine Hayes and her accomplices—She is burned alive for petty treason—Sarah Malcolm, the Temple murderess—Oth...
5. CHAPTER IVNewgate refronted in 1638—Destroyed in great fire of 1666— Suicides frequent—The gaoler Fells indicted for permitting escapes—Crimes of the period—Clipping and coining greatly i...
9. CHAPTER VIIINewgate Calendars—Their editors and publishers—All based on sessions' papers—Demand for this literature fostered by prevalence of crime—Brief summary of state of crime in the fi...
8. CHAPTER VIIEscapes from Newgate mostly commonplace—Causes of escapes— Mediæval prison breaking—Scheme of escape in a coffin—Other methods—Changing clothes—Setting fire to prison—Connivance...
11. CHAPTER XChronic dangers and riots in the London streets—Footmen's riot at Drury Lane—James Maclane, a notorious knight of the road, has a lodging in St. James's Street—Stops Horace Walp...
3. CHAPTER IIPrison records meagre—Administration of justice and state of crime—Leniency alternates with great severity—Criminal inmates of Newgate—Masterless men—Robbery with violence— Debt...
2. CHAPTER IEarliest accounts of Newgate prison—The New Gate, when built and why—Classes of prisoners incarcerated—Brawlers, vagabonds, and "roarers" committed to Newgate—Exposure in pillor...
6. CHAPTER VThe press-yard described—Charges for admission—Extortionate fees paid to turnkeys and governor—The latter's perquisites— Arrival of Jacobite prisoners—Discussed by lower officia...
4. CHAPTER IIIJesuit emissaries in Newgate—Richardson and others—Speaking ill of king's sister entails imprisonment for life—Criminal offenders—Condition of prisoners—Fanatical conduct of kee...
1. Volume 1The combat with crime is as old as civilization. Unceasing warfare is and ever has been waged between the law-maker and the law-breaker. The punishments inflicted upon criminals...