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.] . taken in amoss, or turf bog, near Tuam, covered over with straw, and disguised in anold hat and peasants clotlies, for which he had given his own laced coat andhat. Beinc examined before Lord Athenry, he said that he had fled forfear of being loaded wi
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.] . taken in amoss, or turf bog, near Tuam, covered over with straw, and disguised in anold hat and peasants clotlies, for which he had given his own laced coat andhat. Beinc examined before Lord Athenry, he said that he had fled forfear of being loaded with irons in a jail, and denied having any hand in hisbrother Dominicks death, aflirming that he had died of a surfeit, as hadbeen reported. He was ])rescnt at the execution of his relations, but con-fessed nothing ; and thus Cthere being no positive proof against him) heescaped justice. A case in which more cold-blooded cruelty has been displayed than inthis, has seldom fallen under our notice. The mtirder of an indulgentparent must be insufferably shocking to every humane mind : but when weconsider, as in the present instance, what a variety of unprovoked murderswere added to the first, the mind is lost in astonishment at the baseness,the barbarity, the worse than savage degeneracy of those beings whocould perpetrate such horrid ^frm/-//»;7///^- Acr/. THE NEW NK\V(}ATE CALENDAR. 107 JONATHAN BRADFORD. EXECUTED FOR MURDER. The details of this case reach ns in a very abridp^ed f(imi; and wo havobeen unable to collect any information on which any reliance can be placedbeyond that which is afforded us by the ordinary channels. It wouldappear that Jonathan Bradford kept an inn in the city of Oxford. A gen-tleman, (^Ir. Hayes), attended by a man servant, put up one evening atBradfords house ; and in the night, the former being found murdered inhis bed, the landlord was apprehended on suspicion of having committedthe barbarous and inhospitable crime. The evidence
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