THE NEWGATE CALENDAR
Smugglers,
Poachers and Livestock Thieves
JOHN TYRRELL
A Horse-stealer, Executed 17th of June, 1723.
RICHARD PARVIN, EDWARD ELLIOT, ROBERT KINGSHELL,
HENRY MARSHALL, EDWARD PINK, JOHN PINK AND JAMES ANSELL
The "Waltham Blacks," who were executed at Tyburn,
4th of December, 1723, for Murder and Deer-Stealing
JOHN GUY
A Deer-stealer. Executed 1st of February, 1725.
JOHN MURREL
A Horse-Stealer. Executed 27th June, 1726.
WILLIAM SMITH
A notorious horse-stealer, executed at Chelmsford, April 13,1731
ABRAHAM WELLS
Executed at Tyburn, May 30, 1739, for
horse-stealing.
PATRICK BOURKE
AND GEORGE ELLIS
Executed at Tyburn, 20th of February, 1745, for
Sheep-Stealing
THOMAS
THOMPSON
Executed at Tyburn, Oct. 24, 1748, for horse-stealing.
BENJAMIN TAPNER, JOHN COBBY, JOHN HAMMOND,
RICHARD MILLS, RICHARD MILLS THE YOUNGER, AND OTHERS
Revengeful Smugglers, who were executed for a Diabolical Murder, 18th of
January, 1749
THOMAS KINGSMILL,
FAIRALL AND PERIN
Three of the thirty Smugglers who broke open the Custom-House at Poole, and
were executed at Tyburn, 26th of April, 1749
THE QUIBBLING
THIEF.
Who stole a goose, and saved himself by a pun
WILLIAM
PROBERT
Executed for Horse-Stealing.
EDWARD
CHALKER AND JEREMY KEYS
Poachers, Tried for Murder of a Gamekeeper.
JOHN BURKITS
Sentenced to Twelve Months Imprisonment, for Dog Stealing, October 13, 1789
ANNE LEAK
A Horse Thief, Eleven years old
CHARLES DON
Convicted at the Summer Assizes 1810, at Chelmsford, and Sentenced to Death,
for Horse Stealing.
JOHN HUGHES
Convicted at the Summer Assizes Held at Dolgelly,
in North Wales, 1811, and Sentenced to Death for Sheep Stealing.
GEORGE
KENDRICK
Imprisoned Twelve Months in the Middlesex House of Correction, for Pheasant
Stealing