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 . ed of murder. Thetime allotted Scanlan to live was too short to admit of a messenger goingto Dublin and back again, and consequently he was executed, to the satis-faction of all lovers of justice. Twelve months after, his guilty servant met a similar fate. Before hisexecution he made a full confession, from which the above particulars arepartly taken. Such was the powerful influence of Scanlans fami
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 . ed of murder. Thetime allotted Scanlan to live was too short to admit of a messenger goingto Dublin and back again, and consequently he was executed, to the satis-faction of all lovers of justice. Twelve months after, his guilty servant met a similar fate. Before hisexecution he made a full confession, from which the above particulars arepartly taken. Such was the powerful influence of Scanlans family, that,though they could not avert his fate, they succeeded in keeping it a secretfrom a large portion of the community, for they had influence enough toprevent an insertion of his case in all the Limerick newspapers, and it longremained unknown, except in the immediate neighbourhood of the trans-action. , . M The trial of Sullivan, however, revealed his own and his masters guilt ;and the whole circumstances of the frightful deed then came fully to light. This story has supplied the author of Tales of Irish Life with thematerials of a most interesting sketch called The Poor Mans ^A^4y^^(:ybiZ^k)^/:^?L ^u^aylyT^e^/x^ &z/ a ,^??pc/e^: ^ I!o2. THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. 58 JAMES NESBETT. EXECUVED FOR THE MURDER OF MR. PARKER AND HIS HOUSEKEEPER. The night of Friday the 3rd of March 1820, was marked by the per-petration of a murder, not exceeded in point of atrocity by any whose cir-cumstances are detailed in our Calendar of Crimes. It bears a strikingresemblance to that committed b}^ Hussey; for the victims were an oldgentleman and his housekeeper—a Mr. Thomas Parker, aged seventy, andSarah Brown, about forty-five years old. Mr. Parker had been a working jeweller in London, where he had madea fortune sufficient to enable him to retire to Woolwich, where heresided for twenty-three years. His house was situated in Mulgrave-place,Red Lion Street, at a short distance fro
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