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<p n="13">THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, &c.</p>
<p n="14">BY virtue of the King's commission of the peace, oyer and terminer, and goal-delivery of Newgate, holden for the city of London and county of Middlesex, at <rs type="placeName" id="OA17631012_geo1">Justice-hall in the Old-Baily</rs>
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, and others of his Majesty's Justices of oyer and terminer, &c. holden for the said city and county, on <rs type="date" id="OA17631012_date5">Wednesday the 14th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17631012_date6">Thursday the 15th</rs>
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, and <rs type="date" id="OA17631012_date10">Tuesday the 20th of September</rs>
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, in the third year of his Majesty's reign, thirteen persons were capitally convicted and received sentence of death, for the several crimes in their indictments set forth, namely,</p>
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<p n="16">1. <rs type="persName" id="OA17631012_n16-1">Esther Levingstone</rs>
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was indicted for the wilful murder of <rs type="persName" id="OA17631012_n16-2">Peter Dove</rs>
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her husband, for aiding, assisting and abetting her, to commit the said murder, <rs type="date" id="OA17631012_date11">August the 20th</rs>
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<p n="17">The issue of this trial was, that the woman was found guilty of wilful murder, and her husband of manslaughter only. She received sentence the same day, being <rs type="date" id="OA17631012_date12">Friday the 16th of September</rs>
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, to be executed on Monday following; and was executed accordingly.</p>
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, about eleven at night, Mr. Lemond the constable was sent for to come and secure her for assaulting and wounding in the head, one of her neighbours, Mrs. Ashby or Ashly, who lived in the same house with her; and also for threatening to set on fire the house and burn the neighbourhood. He brought this <rs type="persName" id="OA17631012_n18-2">Peter Dove</rs>
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with several others to his assistance: but instead of being admitted into their room, they were threatened with death both by the husband and wife to the first that should dare to enter: notwithstanding this, they still persisting to demand or attempt an entry, the door was on a sudden opened in part, a hand pushed out, and a stab given to Dove, so that his bowels soon appeared coming out: he was next day moved to the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17631012_geo4">London-Hospital</rs>
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died of the said wound, which was on the left side of his belly, a little above the groin. From the evidence of Mrs. Ashby it appeared that she also had been shamefully and cruelly treated by this convict, having the very same night broke open her place, hauled her into the street, turned her clothes over her head, and whipped her like a child, and then stabbing her in the temple with a penknife, left her for dead, exposed half-naked in the street; threatening to burn all the b - s in one bone-fire.</p>
<p n="19">This witness acknowledged that Levingstone the husband rescued her from the rage of his wife, and probably saved her life. The part</p>
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