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The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2: being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841.Pelham, Camden

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The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2: being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841.

Name: The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2: being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841.
Author: Pelham, Camden

Pelham, Camden

Crime -- Great Britain; Criminals -- Great Britain; Newgate (Prison : London, England)

The comparison of the offences, and of the punishments of the last
century, with those of more recent date, will exhibit a marked
distinction between the two periods, both as to the atrocity of the one,
and the severity of the other. Those dreadful and frequent crimes, which
would disgrace the more savage tribes, and which characterised the lives
of the early objects of our criminal proceedings, are now no longer
heard of; and those characters of blood, in which the pages of our
Statute-book were formerly written, have been wiped away by improved
civilisation and the milder feelings of the people. It is but just to
say that the provisions of a wise Parliament have not been unattended
with proper results. Humanity has been permitted to temper the stern
demands of justice; and however atrocious, it must be admitted, some of
the crimes may be which have been recently perpetrated, and however
numerous the offenders-it cannot be denied that the general aspect of
the state of crime in this country is now infinitely less alarming than
formerly.

The necessity for punishment as the consequence of crime, can neither be
doubted nor denied. Without it the bonds of society must be
broken--government in no form could be upheld. If, then, example be the
object of punishment, and peace and good order, nay, the binding
together of the community, be its effects, how useful must be a work,
whose intention is to hold out that example which must be presumed to be
the foundation of a well-ordered society.

The cases will be found to be arranged chronologically, which, it is
presumed, will afford the most satisfactory and the most easy mode of
reference. This advantage is, however, increased by the addition of
copious indices.

LONDON, JULY 1, 1840.




CONTENTS.

NOTE.--_The offence mentioned opposite to each name is that alleged
against the person charged._


                                                                    PAGE

ADAMS, Agnes. Forgery,                                               505

ALDEN, Martha. Murder,                                               445

ALLEN, George. Murder,                                               444

ALLEN, William. Returned Transport,                                  330

ARMITAGE, Richard. Forgery,                                          506

ASLETT, Robert. Embezzlement,                                        410

ATKINS, James, _alias_ Hill, _alias_ Jack the Painter. Arson,        269

ATTAWAY, James. Burglary,                                            226

ARAM, Eugene. Murder,                                                168

AVERSHAW, Lewis Jeremiah. Murder,                                    347


BAILEY, Richard. Burglary,                                           226

BALFOUR, Alexander. Murder,                                            3

BALMERINO, Lord. Treason,                                            107

BALTIMORE, Lord. Rape,                                               213

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