The sessions ended at the Old Bailey, when two for stealing malt from a lighter in the Thames; one for shooting at a person on the highway; one for stealing a silver tankard out of a public house; one for robbing a man of a quantity of isingglass at his own door; a woman for decoying another out of her lodgings, under pretence of providing for her, and then stripping them of all the furniture; and one for forgery; received sentence of death; which three of them soon after suffered: a fourth, whose death warrant had been signed, was afterwards respited on condition of permitting his leg to be cut off, and a new styptic* tried upon it; but he died before the trial could be made.
* (of a substance) capable of causing bleeding to stop when it is applied to a wound.
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