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Title: The chronicles of crime, or The new Newgate calendar. Being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to the present time including a number of curious cases never before published. Embellished with fifty-two engravings, from original drawings by "Phiz" (pseud.)
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Pelham, Camden, pseud Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. illus. cn
Subjects: Crime Criminals
Publisher: London, T. Tegg (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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to the country ; and the people of the house con-
cluding that he had let himself out before they had risen, and that this
accounted for their finding the street door on the latch, replied that he
must have departed, giving that circumstance as a reason for such belief.
This audacious farce was acted by the murderer for some days, during
which time he frequently called to know whether his friend had returned.
The family, however, beginning to entertain suspicions of some foul play,
procured a ladder, entered the chamber window of their unfortunate lodger,
and soon discovered the body crammed into the trunk, which was only two
feet four inches long, already beginning to putrefy. There appeared on the
head several deep wounds.
A warrant was thereupon granted to apprehend Mercier, who was taken
just as he was alighting from a post-chaise, in which he had been jaunting
with a woman of the town. In his lodgings, and on his person, were
found sixteen gold watches, some of great value; a great number of
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RESURRECIONISTS.p.273

J & F. TALLIS, LONDON, EDINBURGH &) LONDON

THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. 273

brilliant diamond and other rings; a variety of gold trinkets; and
seventy-five guineas.
On his examination he confessed his guilt, which, added to the proof
that the manufactured articles had been the property of Mondroyte,
secured his conviction. He was subsequently tried at the Old Bailey, and
a verdict of Guilty being returned, he was sentenced to be hanged on the
following Monday.
He was carried to execution opposite the place where he committed the
murder; and no man ever met death with more dread. He used every
evasion to prolong the fatal hour, repeatedly craving time for his devotions,
until the sheriff, perceiving his motive, gave the signal, and he was turned
off, on the 8th of December 1777, amidst the execrations of the surround-
ing spectators.

JOHN HOLMES AND PETER WILLIAMS.

WHIPPED FOR STEALING DEAD BODIES.

These impious robbers were of a class now, happily, no longer

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