The man to be hanged belonged to Wales, and no Welshman would do the job. Travelling expenses of these agents cost £15, and another £10 were spent in the hire of a Shropshire man, who deserted, and was pursued, but without success. Another man was hired, himself a convict, whose fees for self and wife were twelve guineas. Then came the cost of the gallows, £4 12_s._; and finally the funeral, cart, coffin, and other petty expenses, amounting to £7 10_s._, making the whole outlay close on £50. CHAPTER VII. NEWGATE NOTORIETIES. 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 robberies--Great commercial frauds--Offences against the person confined to murder and manslaughter, the character of which remained much the same--Another crime, that of attempt upon the sovereign--Other forms of treason--The Cato Street conspiracy--Thistlewood's history--Discovery of the plot--The conspirators' plan--How defeated--Their trial at the Old Bailey--The informer Edwards--Their sentence and execution--Attacks on the sovereign--Oxford fires at Queen Victoria--His attempt due to a craze for notoriety--"Young England"--Francis--Bean--Mr. Pate--Celebrated frauds and forgeries--Fauntleroy--The last execution for forgery--Captain Montgomery--Joseph Hunton the Quaker--Richard Gifford--Maynard--Sir Robert Peel's bill to amend forgery laws--The Forgery Act--Latest cases of abduction--E. Gibbon Wakefield and Miss Turner--Big "jobs," burglaries and other robberies, still perpetrated--Howard robs Mr. Mullay--Strange assault upon Mr. Gee--Thieves prosper through connivance of fences and receivers--Ikey Solomons--His escape from custody--He leaves the country, but returns, and is eventually sentenced to transportation--Large robbery of the Custom House--While still undiscovered, robbery of diamonds at the Custom House Quay--Leads to detection of both--The gold-dust robbery in 1839--How discovered--Done by Jews, who cheat each other all round--A few of the most remarkable murders of this epoch--Thurtell, Hunt, and Probert kill Mr. Weare--Burke and Hall--Their imitators, Bishop and Williams, in London, murder an Italian boy and sell the body--Greenacre and Mrs. Gale murder Hannah Brown--Horrible means of disposing of the corpse--Detection, trial, and sentence.