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.] . ist, as theyhad done enough, and proposed that they should go and see if all was then ran down stairs, but returning in a few moments, he found that-Heald had got the old woman into another room, and was beating her overthe head with a pair of
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.] . ist, as theyhad done enough, and proposed that they should go and see if all was then ran down stairs, but returning in a few moments, he found that-Heald had got the old woman into another room, and was beating her overthe head with a pair of tongs. Upon seeing him, he struck her no more,and then they directly secured the money and made ofl^. From the evidenceof the constables it further appeared that Heald, on hearing the confessionof the other prisoner, upbraided him for deceiving him, and added, Thouknowest I was not with thee. Terry answered, Thou knowest there isa God above, who knows all; and upon Heald remarking, Thou hadstbetter lay it upon somebody else, he replied, I will not hang an innocentman ; thou knowest there were but us two, and God for our witness. This, together with some other circumstances of suspicion, provedagainst the two prisoners, constituted the evidence against them ; and thejury returned a verdict of Guilty. Sentence of death was then immediately. ^z- fy9n.€^i^/i&/^c-^^ ay Jtac/c^-n-e-y &c^aN KlMNIlllBGH * DUnTilN . THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. 379. passed, and was ordered to be put into execution on tlio following Monday;but in the mean time a most extraordinary change took place in thedemeanour of the prisoner Terry. Upon his being attended by Mr. Brown, the Ordinary, he asserted thatHeald was not guilty, and that if he were hanged, he should be guilty oftwo murders instead of only one. He entreated that the clergyman wouldendeavour to procure the respite of his fellow-prisoner, and declared that hecould not bear to be hanged with an innocent man. The whole of thecircumstances were
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