Saward's letter to Hardwicke fell into the hands of the police and compromised him. While Hardwicke and Atwell were in Newgate awaiting trial, active search was made for Saward, who was at length taken in a coffee-shop near Oxford Street, under the name of Hopkins. He resisted at first, and denied his identity, but on being searched, two blank cheques of the London and Westminster Bank were found in his pocket. He then confessed that he was the redoubtable Jem Saward, or Jem the Penman, and was conveyed to a police-court, and thence to Newgate. At his trial Atwell and Hardwicke, two of his chief allies and accomplices, turned approvers, and the whole scheme of systematic forgery was laid bare. The evidence was corroborated by that of many of the victims who had acted as messengers, and others who swore to the meetings of the conspirators and their movements. Saward was found guilty, and the judge, in passing sentence on him of transportation for life, expressed deep regret that "the ingenuity, skill, and talent, which had received so perverted and mistaken direction, had not been guided by a sense of virtue, and directed to more honourable and useful pursuits." The proceeds of these forgeries amounted, it was said, to some thousands per annum. Saward spent all his share at low gaming houses, and in all manner of debaucheries. He was in person a short, square-built man of gentlemanly address, sharp and shrewd in conversation and manner. He was fifty-eight at the time of his conviction, and had therefore enjoyed a long innings. CHAPTER IX. LATER RECORDS. 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 on record--Suicides--Latest executions--Some account of Calcraft and Marwood--Public executions continue, but much reprehended--The crowd at the 'Flowery Land' executions--Prices paid for seats--The same at Müller's--'Times'' account of that execution--Efforts to make executions private in gaols--Royal commission--Mr. Hibbert's bill--- The Fenian Barrett's, last public execution at Newgate--First private one, that of Alexander Mackay--Private executions not popular with Newgate officials--Some account, by them, of the demeanour of murderers--Wainwright--Catherine Wilson--Kate Webster.