The chronicles of crime, or The new Newgate calendar. Being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to the (14780384791)

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Title: The chronicles of crime, or The new Newgate calendar. Being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to the present time including a number of curious cases never before published. Embellished with fifty-two engravings, from original drawings by "Phiz" (pseud.)
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Pelham, Camden, pseud Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. illus. cn
Subjects: Crime Criminals
Publisher: London, T. Tegg (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System



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ss on thefloor. HavicL lain some time in tliis condition, he got, with much diffi-culty, into another room, and threw himself on a bed. When he wasasleep, his wife told her associates that this was the time to execute theirplan, as theic was no fear of any resistance on his part, and accoi-dinglyBillings went into the room with a hatchet, with which he struck Hayesso violently that he fractured his skull. At this time Hayess feet hungoff the bed; and the torture arising from the blow made him stam))repeatedly on the floor, which, being heard by Wood, he also went intothe room, and, taking the hatclu t out of Iillings hand, gave the poor mantwo more blows, which ettectually desiiatclud him. A woman, namedSpringate, who lodgid in the room over thnt where the murder was com-mitted, hearing the noise occasioned by Hayess stamping, imagined thatthe parties might have quaiTelled in consquence of their intoxication • andgoing down stairs, she told Mrs. Hayes that the noise had awakened her
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THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR, 67 \ , husband, her child, and lierself. Catherine, however, had a roacly answer tothis : she said some company had visited them, and were grown merry, butthey were on the point of taking their leave; and Mrs. Springate returnedto her room well satisfied. The murderers noAV consulted on the bestmanner of disposing of the body, so as most effectually to prevent detec-tion. Mrs. llayes proposed to cut off the head, because, if the body wasfound whole, it would be more likely to be known, and the villains agreeingto this proposition, she fetched a pail, lighted a candle, and all of themwent into the room. The men then drew the body partly off the bed, andBillings supported the head, while Wood, with his pocket-knife, cut it off,and the infamous woman held the pail to receive it, being as careful aspossible that the floor might not be stained with the blood. This being,done, they emptied the blood out of the pail into a sink by the window,and poured several pails