Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
16th January 1735
This Day is published, [Price 6 d.] No. 21. (Being the ninth Number of the second Volume of)
SELECT TRIALS at the Sessions House in the Old Baily, for Murders, Robberies, Rapes. Sodomy, Coining, Frauds and other Offences, from the Year 1720 to the present time; chiefly transcribed from Notes taken in Court, with genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Speeches of the most eminent Convicts. N. B. These Trials, &c are not to be met with in any other Collection.
This Number contains among others, The Trial of
James
Clough
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, on an Appeal for Murder, with a remarkable Account of that Murder, of Bigg, for sending a threatning Letter, of Kemp, for several Burglaries; of Robinson, for stealing Money out of Letters at the General Post-Office; and the several Trials of
William
Acton
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, Deputy-Keeper of the Marshalsea, for Murder, his Trial being directed by the House of Commons. Also the Tryals of
Mary
Maccartney
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and
Mary
Wild
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(
Jonathan
Wild
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's Brother's Wife, for privately stealing;
Thomas
Bambridge
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, Esq; late Warden of the Fleet for Felony;
Peter
Coffee
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for Forgery; and
James
Dalton
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for attempting to
Rob
Dr
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. Mead, and for Robbing
John
Waller
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, who was afterwards kill'd in the Pillory by Dalton's Brother, and one Griffin.
Printed for J Wilford behind the Chapter House near St. Paul's Church-Yard.
Where may be had Vol.I. (Price Six Shillings )
Containing upwards of Three Hundred Trials of which are Seventy-seven Trials of the most notorious Highwaymen, with their Lives and Dying-Speeches; Fifty-three for Murder, several of which are very remarkable; Thirty-one, of Whores for privately stealing, which are very entertaining; Ten, of noted Shop-lifters; Sixty 2, of House-breakers, &c. Nineteen, for Frauds, Riots, and Misdemeanors; Eleven, for Rapes and Attempts to ravish, Eight, for receiving stolen Goods; Nine, for single Felonies; Five, for receiving stolen Goods; Five, for Coining; Two, for Forgery; Four, for Sodomy; One, for Bigamy; Two, for Returning from Transportation; Two, for House-stealing; and Ten for endeavouring to set up a new Mint.
N.B. These Trials are not only very necessary for all Lawyers, Justices of the Peace, Clarks of the Indictments, and other Persons concern'd in Prosecutions, &c. but are very useful and entertaining to the Generality of Readers; and every Number contains more in Quantity, and is cheaper than any thing ever publish'd this way.
This Day is Published, Price 2 s. 6 d. neatly Bound, The Third Volume of,
THE Lives of most of the remarkable Criminals who have been condemn'd and executed for Murder, Highway, House-breaking, Street-robberies, Coining, or other Offences, from the Year 1720. to the present Time. Containing particularly, the Lives of
William
Berwick
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, for the Murder of his Wife;
James
Cluff
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for the Murder of his Fellow Servant Mary Green; Capt.
John
Gow
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a Pirate and Murderer;
John
Perry
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, his Mother and Brother, for the supposed Murder of the Rev. Mr. Harrison at Campden in Gloucestershire;
James
Dalton
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a House-breaker;
John
Everet
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who kept the Cock Alehouse in the Old Baily; and Ferdinando Shrimpton, a Highwayman, &c.
John
Featherby
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and the rest of his Gang, notorious House-breakers;
James
Drummond
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and
Robert
Drummond
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, two Brothers, Highwaymen. Collected from original Papers and authentick Memoirs. Printed and soid by
John
Osborn
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at the Golden Ball in Paternoster-Row; where, may be had compleat Sets at 7 s. 6 d.
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