Often the convicts give way to despair. They are too closely watched to be allowed to do themselves much mischief, or suicides would probably be more frequent. But it is neither easy to obtain the instruments of self-destruction nor to elude the vigilance of their guard. The man, Bousfield, however, whose execution was so sadly bungled,[124] made a determined effort to burn himself to death by throwing himself bodily on to the fire in the condemned ward. He was promptly rescued from his perilous condition, but not before his face and hands were badly scorched. They were still much swollen when he was led out to execution. Miller, the Chelsea murderer, who packed his victim's body in a box, and tried to send it by parcels delivery, tried to kill himself, but ineffectively, by running his head against his cell wall. A few other cases of the kind have occurred, but they have been rare of late years, whether in Newgate or elsewhere. CHAPTER X. NEWGATE NOTORIETIES. Latest records of crimes--Poisoning, revived and more terrible--Palmer's case--His trial at the Central Criminal Court, and demeanour in Newgate--His imitators--Dove--Dr. Smethurst--Catherine Wilson--Dr. Taylor's opinion that poisoning very prevalent--Piracy and murder--The 'Flowery Land'--Arrest of the mutineers--Their trial and sentence--Details of their behaviour while in Newgate--Murder of Mr. Briggs in a railway carriage--How brought home to Müller--Pursuit of murderer and his arrest in New York--Müller's conviction--His protest against justice of sentence--Confesses guilt when rope is actually round his neck--Christian Sattler murders a police Inspector--Latest frauds and robberies--The forgeries of Wagner, Bateman, and others--Principal forger, an aged man, Kerp, escapes arrest--Robbery of Bank of England bank-note paper at Tavistock--Reward offered--Arrests made, followed by expressions which lead to capture of whole gang--Buncher and Griffiths sentenced--Cummings acquitted: his delight--Cummings an adroit and inveterate coiner. As these records draw to a close, the crimes I chronicle become so much more recent in date that they will be fresh in the memory of most of my readers. Nevertheless, in order to give completeness to the picture I have attempted to draw of crime in connection with Newgate, from first to last, I must make some mention, in this my penultimate chapter, of some of the most heinous offences of modern times.