Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts
23rd November 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.