Category: History - British
State of crime on opening new gaol--Newgate full--Executions very numerous--Ruthless penal code--Forgery punished with death--Its frequency--How fostered--Some notable forgers--The first forgery of Bank of England notes--Gibson--Bolland--The two Perreaus--Dr. Dodd--Charles Pri...
State of crime on opening new gaol--Newgate full--Executions very numerous--Ruthless penal code--Forgery punished with death--Its frequency--How fostered--Some notable forgers--...
3. CHAPTER II.Newgate still overcrowded--Some statistics--Description of interior--The various "sides" and wards--Their dimensions and uses--Debtors in Middlesex, generally paltry debts and c...
4. i. The male debtors' side consisted of a yard forty-nine feet bythirty-one, leading to thirteen wards on various floors, and a day room. Of these wards, three were appropriated to the "cabin side," so called because they each contained four...
5. ii. The female debtors' side consisted of a court-yard forty-nine bysixteen feet, leading to two wards, one of which was thirty-six feet by fifteen, and the other eighteen by fifteen; and they nominally held twenty-two persons. A high wall fifte...
6. iv. The middle yard was at first given up to the least heinousoffenders. After 1812 it changed functions with the chapel yard. It was fifty feet by twenty-five, and had five wards each thirty-eight by fifteen. At one end of the yard was an...
7. v. The master felons' side consisted of a yard the same size as thepreceding, appropriated nominally to the most decent and better-behaved prisoners, but really kept for the few who had funds sufficient to gain them admission to these more comf...
8. viii. The female felons were deprived of part of the space which thearchitect had intended for them. More than half their quadrangle had been partitioned off for another purpose, and what remained was divided into a master's and a common side fo...
9. CHAPTER III.Absence of religious and moral instruction in Newgate a hundred years ago--Chaplains not always zealous--Unprofessional amateur enthusiasts minister to the prisoners--Christian...
10. CHAPTER IV.Prison reform generally taken up--Mr. Neild's visitation--Howard's great work repeated--Neglect of prisons not the fault of the legislature--Numerous gaol Acts passed, but not c...
11. CHAPTER V.Appointment of inspectors of prisons--Their names and antecedents--Mr. Crawford and Mr. Whitworth Russell at once visit Newgate, and make a searching inquiry--Find old evils sti...
12. c. 40, any two justices might remove a prisoner found to be insane,either on commitment or arraignment, to an asylum, and the Secretary of State had the same power as regards any who became insane while undergoing sentence. These powers were no...
13. CHAPTER VI.Executions not always in front of Newgate after discontinuance of Tyburn--Old Bailey by degrees monopolizes the business--Description of the new gallows--Same system had already...
14. CHAPTER VII.Diminution in certain kinds of crime--Fewer street robberies because people carried less cash about them--Corresponding increase in cases of fraud, forgeries, jewel and bullion...
15. CHAPTER VIII.Increase in crimes of fraud--Edward Beaumont Smith--Casting away ships--The 'Dryad'--Wrecked by the Wallaces--Another clergyman-forger, Dr. Bailey--The Barber Fletcher frauds to...
16. CHAPTER IX.Latest cases of escape--Charles Thomas White--John Williams--Henry Williams--Other attempts frustrated--Bell, Brown, and Barry escape together--Krapps the sailor--The last case...
17. CHAPTER X.Latest records of crimes--Poisoning, revived and more terrible--Palmer's case--His trial at the Central Criminal Court, and demeanour in Newgate--His imitators--Dove--Dr. Smethu...
18. CHAPTER XIMovement towards prison reform--Pentonville 'model' prison built--Extension of the movement--Opposing views as to _silence_ and _separation_--Widely different treatment of crimi...
19. ii. 216, 217;COURVOISIER, his execution, ii. 245; scenes at, 245; crowded and fashionable congregation to hear his condemned sermon, 262; and enormous crowd to see him hanged, 263; discovery...
20. ii. 6-22, 245, 257, 294-304;a capital crime, 6; effects of this on public feeling, 6; the Bank of England the most implacable prosecutor of forgers, 7; strong feeling against these prosecutions, 8; early f...
21. i. 188;systematic operations of, in 18th century, ii. 38; Alexander Day, 39; female sharpers, 40; Harriet Grieve, 40; James Dignum, 41; Mrs. Clarke, 42; her connection with the Duke of...
22. i. 64-67;[7] "If Dr. Dodd does not suffer the sentence of the law," said Lord Mansfield to the King in Council, "then the Perreaus have been murdered." The Lord Chief Justice held an opi...