The Chronicles of Newgate, vol. 2/2

The Chronicles of Newgate, vol. 2/2

State of crime on opening new gaolNewgate fullExecutions very numerousRuthless penal codeForgery punished with deathIts frequencyHow fosteredSome notable forgersThe first forgery of Bank of England notesGibsonBollandThe two PerreausDr. DoddCharles Price, alias Old PatchClipping still largely practisedJohn Clarke hanged for itAlso William Guest, a clerk in Bank of EnglandHis elaborate apparatus for filing guineasCoiningForty or fifty private mints for making counterfeitsAlways at workTown and country orders regularly executed650 prosecutions for coining in seven yearsOffences against life and propertyStreets unsafeHigh roads infested by robbersNo regular policeInefficiency of watchmenAssaults on the weaker sexRenwick Williams the monsterDaring Robberies at lveesThe Duke of Beaufort robbed by gentleman HarryGeorge Barrington, the gentleman thief, frequents Ranelagh, the Palace, the Opera HouseHis depredationsHe aids authorities to suppress a mutiny, turns police officer and becomes chief constable of New South Wales before he diesGentlemen of the road ubiquitous and always busyHighwaymen put down by the horse patrolHorse patrol describedExecutions still numerous, but transportation now adopted as a secondary punishment for lesser offendersSome of these{2} describedLong firm swindlersAlexander Day, alias Marmaduke Davenport, Esq.Female SharpersElizabeth Grieve pretends to sell places under the CrownSo does David James DignamTraffic in places flourished in this corrupt ageMrs. Clarke and the Duke of YorkOther forms of swindlingJacques defrauds Warden of the FleetJuvenile depravityIncreased by committing the young to NewgateVarious youthful crimesA girl for salePrize-fightingWriters in gaolThe North BritonWilkesThe Press oppressedMr. Walter of the Times in NewgateSir Francis Burdett and Mr. John Gale JonesWilliam Cobbett in NewgateAlso the Marquis of Sligo. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 46746
Author: Griffiths, Arthur
Release Date: Sep 1, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English