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 . dea of killing him. I do not know who robbed him, but supposeit must have been Fare, as the money was found on him, and it was provediie had been applying for relief from the parish. I can only say, I had nohand in robbing him, either directly or indirectly ; and what possessed meto participate in killing him I know not; but, after the deed was done, Iwas ready to kill myself; and I now say, that I
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 . dea of killing him. I do not know who robbed him, but supposeit must have been Fare, as the money was found on him, and it was provediie had been applying for relief from the parish. I can only say, I had nohand in robbing him, either directly or indirectly ; and what possessed meto participate in killing him I know not; but, after the deed was done, Iwas ready to kill myself; and I now say, that I ought to die for commit-ting such an act. The knife which Cooper said, in his examination, wasmine, and that it was a black-handled one, and small blade, I do mostsolemnly avow I had lost some time before, and had no knife with mewhen we left ihe public-house. The night was so dark, I could not dis-tinctly see the one the deed was done with, and after it was done I threwthe knife into the ditch, and suppose (the knife not being found) that Coopeimust have picked it up ; and the reason of Coopers confession I believe wasmade thinking 1 should tell of him first and have him convicted ; but we. THE >IEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. 367 both said, We shall be hanged. I have no ill-will towards any man,and I now leave this world for a crime which I shudder at. The unfortunate man, as we have already said, had been married aboutthree years. He was a native of Enfield, and was brought up by his fatherto the business which he followed, that of a jobbing gardener. He attributedhis misfortunes to his marriage, and to his inability to procure work suffi-cient to support him and his family. His late fellow-prisoner Fare, was on a subsequent day put upon histrial, for stealing from the deceased the money of which he was known tohave been possessed, and a portion of which had been found in the prisonerspockets on his apprehension. A verdict of Guilty was returned, and theprisoner was sentenced to be
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