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 1841 . th her throughout her confinement, wasunderstood to be that of her husband. A short memoir of the life of Mrs. Brown shall conclude our notice ofthis dreadful case. Mrs. Brown, it appears, was born in the year 1780,within two miles of the city of Norwich, of respectable parents. Hermaiden name was Gay. At the age of sixteen years she entered into ser-vice in the family of Lord Wodehouse, at Crimley-
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 1841 . th her throughout her confinement, wasunderstood to be that of her husband. A short memoir of the life of Mrs. Brown shall conclude our notice ofthis dreadful case. Mrs. Brown, it appears, was born in the year 1780,within two miles of the city of Norwich, of respectable parents. Hermaiden name was Gay. At the age of sixteen years she entered into ser-vice in the family of Lord Wodehouse, at Crimley-hall, but after remainingthere for four years, she determined to come to London. For a considerabletime she supported herself there as a servant, but at length she was marriedto a person named Thomas Brown, a shoemaker. This union proved anunhappy one, and at the expiration of two years her husband quitted herm order to proceed to Jamaica to claim some property, to which, by thedeath of a relation, he had become entitled. On his voyage he was washedoverboard ; and his wife, unacquainted with the precise nature of his claim,was unable to secure the bequest of her husbands relative. From thia. Q^rJayt//£^^^ ^i/ic^i?i!^^ n^, ^/^y-^-^>/^y6t^. T. f53. THE NEW NEWGATE CAl ENDAR. 453 period she appears to have lived constantly in service, and it was supposedby her friends that she had amassed a considerable property by her was a person of reserved disposition, however, and communicated withfew as to her position in life. Her acquaintance with Greenacre appears tohave commenced only about three months before her murder, but the pre-cise manner in which that connexion originated does not seem to havebeen known to her friends. CHARLES SAMUEL BARTLETT. EXECUTED FOR MURDER. At the Gloucester Assizes on Thursday the Oth of April 1837, CharlesSamuel Bartlett was indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Lewis, hismother-in-law, on the 10th of September, in the previous year, at
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