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 . RDER. At the Durham assizes, on Wednesday the 1st of August 1832, WilliamJobling was tried on an indictment charging him with the wilful murderof Mr. Fairies, a magistrate, on the previous 11th of June. Mr. Fairies,it appeared, had given offence to the colliers, from his spirited exertions tosuppress their riotous proceedings. On the day in question he was return-ing from the Jarrow Colliery on his
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 . RDER. At the Durham assizes, on Wednesday the 1st of August 1832, WilliamJobling was tried on an indictment charging him with the wilful murderof Mr. Fairies, a magistrate, on the previous 11th of June. Mr. Fairies,it appeared, had given offence to the colliers, from his spirited exertions tosuppress their riotous proceedings. On the day in question he was return-ing from the Jarrow Colliery on his pony, when he was overtaken by theprisoner and a man named Armstrong, who, having first asked him formoney, dragged him from his horse and beat him unmercifully with abludgeon, and also pelted him with stones as he lay on the ground. was found in a state of insensibility, and, on his recovery, sworedistinctly to the prisoner and Armstrong, as the persons by whom he hadbeen attacked. He subsequently died of his wounds. The prisoner wassecured at Shields ; Armstrong escaped; the prisoner was found *• Guilty,**and received sentence to die on Friday—his body to be hung in ^^a^A-c£j. f.^Sn THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. J55 This sentence was carried out to its full extent, the body of tlio suspended to a gibbet in the neighbourhood of the scene of themurder. This exhibition, however, gave great oftence to the colliers ; and afterthe remains of the unhappy wretch had been exposed for several weeks, theywere, on Saturday the 8th of September, suddenly missed, having beenremoved during the previous night. The deceased had been a collier ; andlittle doubt was entertained that his late companions and fellow-workmenhad done this service to his memory : all subsequent efforts to discoverthe place of concealment of his body proved unavailing. But although un-doubtedly its unauthorised removal was a serious breach of the law, therewere few to be found who l
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