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

23rd November 1763

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13th September 1763


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, &c.

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 Justice-hall in the Old-Bailey , before the Right Honourable William Beckford< no role > , Esq. Lord-Mayor of the city of London ; the Right Honourable William Lord Mansfield< no role > , Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's court of King's Bench ; Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe< no role > , Knt. one of the Barons of his Majesty's court of Exchequer ; the Honourable Henry Bathurst< no role > , Esq. one of the Judges of his Majesty's court of Common-Pleas ; James Eyre< no role > , Esq. Recorder , and others of his Majesty's justices of oyer and terminer of the city of London and goal-delivery of Newgate, holden for the said city and county of Middlesex, on Wednesday the 19th , Thursday the 20th , and Friday the 21st of October , in the third year of his Majesty's reign, ten persons were capitally convicted and received sentence of death, for the several crimes in their indictments set forth, (beside Richard Sinderbury< no role > for Murder, executed October 23 , of whom an account has been published) viz.

John Dean< no role > , Hugh Maloney< no role > , George Anderson< no role > , Patrick OHara< no role > , John Barrett< no role > , Michael Kennedy< no role > , George Kelly< no role > , Charles Brown< no role > , Joseph Stride< no role > , and John Broughton< no role > .

On Friday the 18th of November the report of the ten malefactors being made to his Majesty, was declared to the prisoners next morning by the death-warrant, wherein five of them were ordered for execution on Wednesday the 23d inst . viz. George Anderson< no role > , Patrick OHara< no role > , Hugh Maloney< no role > , Charles Brown< no role > , and John Broughton< no role > ; and five were respited, namely, John Dean< no role > , for personating Thomas Bond< no role > and attempting to receive his wages; John Barrett< no role > and Michael Kennedy< no role > , for being concerned in a street-robbery with Patrick OHara< no role > ; George Kelly< no role > , for a burglary and robbery in the house of Robert Sinclair< no role > ; and Joseph Stride< no role > , for a robbery in the dwelling-house of the Honourable Henry Fane< no role > , Esq .

1. George Anderson< no role > otherwise Johnson< no role > , was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of William Smith< no role > on the 13th of September , about two in the morning, and stealing a silver teaspoon val. 3s. a brass thimble val. 1d.




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