The Chronicles of Crime (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The New Newgate Calendar - Complete True Crime Edition (Vol. 1&2)By Camden Pelham
Length80h 4m
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The Chronicles of Crime, also known in the tradition of the Newgate Calendar, gathers notorious criminal cases into a vivid panorama of transgression, punishment, and public morality. Blending documentary summary, courtroom narrative, gallows biography, and melodramatic moral commentary, the work belongs to the nineteenth-century culture of crime writing that both instructed and thrilled its readers. Its style is brisk, graphic, and didactic, preserving the sensational appeal of criminal anecdote while framing each life as a cautionary example within the expanding Victorian fascination with law, order, and social deviance. Camden Pelham was the name under which this substantial compilation appeared, and the authorial persona is that of a diligent antiquarian of crime: attentive to legal records, popular memory, and the moral expectations of respectable readers. Whether read as editor, compiler, or narrator, Pelham stands at the intersection of journalism, legal history, and popular literature, transforming scattered trials and executions into a coherent archive of criminal character and consequence. This book is recommended to readers interested in Victorian culture, true crime's literary ancestry, legal history, and the moral imagination of nineteenth-century Britain. It remains valuable not merely for its lurid cases, but for what it reveals about a society defining itself through the spectacle of crime and punishment.
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GenreHistory
Length80 hrs 4 mins
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Publish dateSep 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Chronicles of Crime (Annotated)
26CHRISTOPHER LAYER, ESQ. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
2VOLUME 1
27PHILIP ROACH, EXECUTED FOR PIRACY AND MURDER.
3PREFACE
28JOSEPH BLAKE, alias BLUESKIN, EXECUTED FOR HOUSEBREAKING.
4T H E C H R O N I C L E S O F C R I M E, OR, THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR.
29JOHN SHEPPARD. EXECUTED FOR HOUSE-BREAKING.
5ALEXANDER BALFOUR. CONVICTED OF MURDER.
30JONATHAN WILD. EXECUTED FOR FELONIOUSLY CONNIVING WITH THIEVES.
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6CAPTAIN JOHN KIDD, SURNAMED THE WIZARD OF THE SEAS, AND DARBY MULLINS. HANGED FOR PIRACY.
31CATHERINE HAYES. BURNT ALIVE FOR THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND.
7GEORGE CADDELL. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF MISS PRICE, WHOM HE HAD SEDUCED.
32MARGARET DIXON. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
8THOMAS COOK. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
33JOHN GOW AND OTHERS. EXECUTED FOR PIRACY.
9JOHN PETER DRAMATTI. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE.
34COLONEL FRANCIS CHARTERIS. CONVICTED OF RAPE.
10WILLIAM ELBY. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
35SARAH MALCOLM. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
11JOHN SMITH. CONVICTED OF ROBBERY.
36CAPTAIN JOHN PORTEOUS. CONVICTED OF MURDER, AND MURDERED BY THE MOB.
12WILLIAM GREGG. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
37JOHN RICHARDSON AND RICHARD COYLE. EXECUTED FOR PIRACY AND MURDER.
13RICHARD THORNHILL, ESQ., CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER, IN KILLING SIR C. DEERING IN A DUEL.
38GEORGE PRICE. CONVICTED OF MURDER.
14COLONEL JOHN HAMILTON. CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER AS SECOND IN A DUEL.
39RICHARD TURPIN. EXECUTED FOR HORSE-STEALING.
15WILLIAM LOWTHER AND RICHARD KEELE. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF EDWARD PERRY, A TURNKEY OF CLERKENWELL BRIDEWELL.
40MARY YOUNG. ALIAS JENNY DIVER. EXECUTED FOR A STREET ROBBERY.
16WILLIAM JOHNSON AND JANE HOUSDEN. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF SPURLING, A TURNKEY IN THE OLD BAILEY.
41CHARLES DREW. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS FATHER.
17THE EARL OF DERWENTWATER, LORD KENMURE, THE EARL OF WINTON, AND OTHERS, EXECUTED FOR TREASON.
42CAPTAIN SAMUEL GOODERE, MATTHEW MAHONY, AND CHARLES WHITE. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF SIR JOHN D. GOODERE, BART.
18JAMES SHEPPARD. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
43JOHN BODKIN, DOMINICK BODKIN, AND OTHERS. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
19THE MARQUIS DE PALEOTTI, EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS SERVANT.
44JONATHAN BRADFORD. EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
20JOHN PRICE. COMMONLY CALLED JACK KETCH, EXECUTED FOR MURDER.
45THE EARL OF KILMARNOCK, AND LORD BALMERINO. BEHEADED FOR HIGH TREASON.
21BARBARA SPENCER. STRANGLED, AND THEN BURNED, FOR COINING.
46MATTHEW HENDERSON. EXECUTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS MISTRESS, LADY DALRYMPLE.
22WILLIAM SPIGGOT, AND THOMAS PHILLIPS. EXECUTED FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
47CHARLES RATCLIFFE, ESQ. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
23NATHANIEL HAWES. TORTURED AND AFTERWARDS EXECUTED FOR ROBBERY.
48LORD LOVAT. BEHEADED FOR HIGH TREASON.
24CAPTAIN JOHN MASSEY. EXECUTED FOR PIRACY.
49FRANCIS TOWNLEY, JAMES DAWSON, AND OTHERS. EXECUTED FOR HIGH TREASON.
25ARUNDEL COOKE, ESQ. AND JOHN WOODBURNE. EXECUTED FOR CUTTING AND MAIMING.
50WILLIAM YORK, AGED TEN YEARS, CONVICTED OF MURDERING SUSAN MAHEW, AGED FIVE YEARS.
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