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 . d, was produced, and the result of the investigation fully bore out thecourse which had been adopted by the magistracy. Verdicts of WilfulMurder were returned in the cases of the constable Mears, and of Lieu-tenant Bennett, against Courtenay and his adherents; while in the case ofCatt, the jury found That he had been killed upon an erroneous beliefthat he was a rioter. In the cases of death which ha
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 . d, was produced, and the result of the investigation fully bore out thecourse which had been adopted by the magistracy. Verdicts of WilfulMurder were returned in the cases of the constable Mears, and of Lieu-tenant Bennett, against Courtenay and his adherents; while in the case ofCatt, the jury found That he had been killed upon an erroneous beliefthat he was a rioter. In the cases of death which had occurred amongstthe insurgents, the jury found a verdict of Justifiable Homicide. Thescene which presented itself, during the sitting of the jury, was distressingin the extreme. The Red Lion, at Boughton, was the place at which thecoroner conducted the investigation; and there also all those prisoners whowere sufferinf^ from the wounds which they had received were detained;while in the stable attached to the house, the bodies of tlie slain were ex-tended. In the yard were the wives, widows, and children, of these de-luded men, lamenting bitterly the position of danger into which the fana-. P^hv/y/i//.:/.// ,?j/7, ^. -yrJs??- 9U:M^. I^^ff^. THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. 465 ticism of their relations had drawn them. During the sitting of the jury,two of the wounded men died, and upon their decease being communicatedto the crowd outside, they gave vent to new expressions of grief. The bodyof Lieutenant Bennett lay in an upper chamber of the inn, and was amelancholy spectacle. The unfortunate gentleman was about twenty-fiveyears of age, and had just obtained leave of absence, when the news of theriots reaching the barracks, he applied for and obtained permission to jointhe party. At the conclusion of the proceedings before the coroner and the magis-trates, the following prisoners were committed for trial, viz.:—ThomasMears, alias Tyler, (the cousin of the murdered
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