The Annual Register and The Newgate Calendar
Monday, 22 March 2021
Margaret Dixon, murderer
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The following case is more remarkable for resuscitation after execution than even the flagitious life of the condemned. Though some doubt ma...
Friday, 19 March 2021
Burnt alive for the murder of her husband
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We give the history of the enormous sins and dreadful sufferings of this abominable woman just as they came to our hands - altogether too sh...
Friday, 12 February 2021
Catherine Jones, tried for bigamy
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Catherine Jones was indicted at the Old Bailey, on the 5th of September, 1719, for marrying Constantine Boone, during the life of her former...
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Deborah Churchill, executed for murder
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In this case we shall disclose one played by woman to defraud her of the most consummate tricks ever creditors; and a more effectual method ...
Tuesday, 9 February 2021
The Rev Thomas Hunter, executed for the murder of two children, sons of Mr Gordon
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The criminal recorder has too often to detail the atrocity of ambition, the malignity of revenge, and the desperation of jealousy; but the p...
Sunday, 7 February 2021
A dramatic suicide
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A dramatic suicide occurred at Capron, Illinois, to-day. Early in May last, George W. Burleigh, who was an old resident of Ohio, came to thi...
A practical joke
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A few days ago a practical joke of a most extraordinary and shocking character was played at Newcastle. It appears that a party of miners we...
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