The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-23

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culiariy free from incubi and flying
demons of all sorts" Therefore it be
came fashionable burying place. and
almost as popular as the great Abbey
even with royalty" There the English
Queen Isabella was buried with the
heart of her murdered husband on her
breast. There also were placed the re-
mains Of her wretched param0ur, the
gentle Mortimer" who was hung at
Tyburn, and left two days whitening on
the gallows. 1t was also the last rest
ing place of two rapacious favOrites of
Richard II. Chow frankly can one talk
of distinguished personages of the
pastD to wit, Sir Nicholas Brenlbe
Oord Mayor of London), and Sir Rob
ert Tresilian (Chief Justice of Eng
land). Both gentlemen breathed their
last at Tyburn, though it was under
stood at the time that the hanging Of
the latter proved impossible until GER
tain magic images and the head of the
devil had been removed from his per-
son. True those ancient monuments
and tOmbs have not been visible for
several centuries, for in 1545 Sir Mar
tin Bowes Nord Mayor "basely and
stupidity" sold the lot for $50.
How full the place is of literary
! school-boy' memories. Take Leigh
Hunts account of his first impressions
of Lamb: "A pensive, brown, hand
some and kindly face, and a gait adj
vancing with a motion from eide to
side, between involuntary conscious
ness and attempted ease. His brown
complexion may have been owing to a
visit to the country; his air of I'M
easiness, to a great burden of sorrow.
! Tie dressed with Quakerlike plain
ness. / did not know him as Lamb; I
! took him for a. Mr.. Guy" having
heard somebody address him by that
| appellative, | suppose in jest.
| At last Newgate Is going. The house
breakers are throwing it down piece by
piece. How many persons in the past
would have been willing, without any
payment, TO prize out some of those
great stones. Nay, some enterpristng
individuals have essayed demolition in
| a small way. Jack Sheppard, that
| thievish young London carpenter.
destroyed some small portions of the
institution. "On the first occasion. "
says Mr. Thornbury, Jack, during an
| interview with two female friends in
the lodge at NeWgate broke a spike off
| the hatch. and, by the assistance Of the
two women, being slim and flexible,
was pulled through the opening, and SO
escaped. Retal1en at Finchley, the an
cry turkeys gripped the young thief
with handouts. loaded him with heavy
| ~; fac + ok
| the side doors of the PRISON., and
chained him to A stout staple in the
| floor of a strong room called the Castle
There people of all ranks came to sec
hir1, and all gave money to the young
lion of the hour, but extreme care was
taken that no sympathizers should pass
him chisel or a file. Jack was, how
ever, eager for notoriety, and resoIute
to battle the turkeys. He chose &
quiet afternoon, when most of thG
keepers were away with their amiablt
charges at the OLD Bailey Sessions
With small nail he had found, HI
loosened his chain from the floor staple
then slipped his small thievish hands
through his handouts and tied up hi:
letters as high as he could with hi;
garters. With a piece of his broker
chain he worked out of the chimney {
transverse iron bar that stopped hi:
upward progress, Jack forced off thu
lock in seven minutes, and got into {
passage leading to- the chapel. n
force a strong bolt here, he broke {
hole through the wall, and with an iror
spike from the chapel door opened
way between the chapel and the lowe
leads"
The place is passing away but it,
lament able, pitiful, and awful mem
cries will endure. Here is sample o
the grim associations of the Old Bailey
The bodies of murderers after execu
ton were removed for dissection to tn,
surgeons theater, and in 1.-The Annua
Register" for 1903 we read of an awfu
experiment performed on the corpse o
a murderer named Foster. at was
says the writer, Subjected to tn
| galvanic process by Mr.. Aldini &
nephew of Galvan) in presence of Mr.
Keate, Mr. Carpue, and several the
professional gentlemen. On the frs
application of the process to the fac
the jaw of the deceased criminal began
to CULVER and the adjoining muscle
were horrible contorted, and one ey
actually opened"
To-day a notice board over the pris
on wall draws attention to the tenn
porary prison cells. constructed b,
some patent process, that have BEEF
erected on an area that has beef
cleared of the ancient buildings.-Lon
don Daily News.
A glass or two of water taken half a
hour before breakfast will usually kee
| the bowels regular. Harsh cathartic