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The following 15 convicts were brought out of Newgate on the
platform erected before the Debtor’s-door, and executed pursuant
to their sentence, viz., Francis Parr, for personating Isaac Hart,
the proprietor of £3,900 3 per cent. consolidated annuities, with
intent to defaud the said Isaac Hart and the Govenor and Company of
the Bank of England; William Trapshaw, for breaking open, in the
day-time the apartments of James Linney, in a house let to several
tenants, and stealing a linen gown and an apron, no person being then
therein; Joseph Mullagan, James Coleman, and John Williamson Halfey,
for breaking and entering the dwelling house of Joseph Stokes, in the
parish of St. Catherine, and stealing a sheet, a blanket, and other
things; Charles Baker, for breaking and entering the dwelling house
of William Watson, in the parish of St Matthew, Bethnal-green, and
stealing several small casks, containing a quantity of spirituous
liquors; William Dwyre, for feloniously and traitorously counterfeiting
the current coin of this kingdom, called six-pences, by coloring
certain pieces of brass with a certain liquid composition producing
the color of silver; Charles Shaw, for assaulting John Hughes on the
highway in St. Paul’s Churchyard, and robbing him of a silver watch,
&c.; John Walker and John Evans, for assaulting William Stevenson on
the highway, in Old-street, and robbing him of a silver watch, two
guineas and a half, some silver, and a dollar; Elizabeth Sedgewick,
for setting fire to the premises of her master, Mr. John Taylor, at
Feltham-hill, Middlesex; Michael Daily and Elizabeth Connolly, for
stealing in the dwelling-house of Mrs. Catherine Plomer, in Howland
street, Oxford road, a gold watch, a silver watch, several articles of
plate, and a quantity of wearing apparel; John-Pousarque Dubois, for
breaking into the dwelling-house of John Grant, in Cockspur street,
and stealing a gold watch, a silver watch, a metal watch, and other
things; and John Adamson, for assaulting Samuel Horne, on the highway,
near the Opera-house, in the Haymarket, and taking from him, by force,
a metal watch in a shagreen case. They all behaved very penitent.
D. W. Murcutt, Printer, Stationer, &c., Long Acre, London.
EXECUTION OF EIGHT CONVICTS ON THE NEW SCAFFOLD FOR EXECUTING CRIMINALS
IN THE OLD BAILEY.
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April 24, 1787.
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