Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

4th January 1725

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9th December 1724


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and last Words of Charles Towers< no role > This name instance is in set 3081. , who was Executed at Wapping in the Parish of St. Paul Shadwell , on Monday the 4th of this Instant January : And also of William Anderson< no role > , who was Executed at Tyburn on Tuesday the 5th of the aforesaid Month .

AT the KING'S Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer and Goal-Delivery, &c. Held (before the Right Honourable Sir George Merttins< no role > Knt . Lord Mayor , the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice King, Mr. Justice Dormer, Mr. Baron Page, Mr. Serjeant Raby, and several of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the City of London and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old Baily , on Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, being the 4th , 5th , 7th , 8th and 9th Days of December last, four Men were by the Jury found guilty of Capital Offences, and received Sentence accordingly.

Two of the Persons, so sentenced, having obtained His Majesty's Reprieve, viz. Rowland Swanson< no role > and Thomas Herbert< no role > ; the remaining two, viz. Charles Towers< no role > and William Anderson< no role > were appointed for Execution.

Though they at first (especially Charles Towers< no role > ) were incapacitated as to the performance of their Duty, by the Anger and Resentment their Condition had fill'd them with, (Charles Towers< no role > in particular, at the same time that he acknowledged the rescuing the Prisoner West from the Hands of John Errington< no role > , affirming he was no way designedly disguised and that he no way apprehended he had any occasion to disguise himself, any more than had Tims, Bowler, Tibbs, Fencote, or any other upon the same Enterprize)




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