The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-03-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CUTIONS. plunder divided. The crime was, a considerable time after, discovered in a very singular way; Homicide is the reproach of England,' Houseman became evidence for the Crown, an wrote Dr. Smollett. When he wrote, the mom- the vile, but accomplished schoolmaster was Sty of the country was in a wretched state. convicted; and having made an unsuccessful Fortune-telling was common in the last century, attempt to commit suicide, was executed and and occasionally led to the commission of crimes hung in =aim Andrew Horne a gentleman ne dark as ever were irimmitted in more modern of property, was hung at Nottingham, in the In the beginning if the reign of George iventy-fourth year of his age, for the murder the butireseountry was infested with thieves of an infant child, born to him by his own sister. and murderers. Arson was common. Perjury In the autumn of 1754, a woman of the name and forgery were familiar crimes. Scarcely any of Cockburn, was executed at Edinburgh, for part of London was safe against the attacks of poieoning her husband and step-mother with robbers, who were as ready to murder as to rob. arsenic. A murder, which created an extraorHighway robbers formed the aristocracy of the dinary degree of excitement, was committed by profession, and long defied the efforts of the Earl Ferrets, at his residence in Leicestershire. government to supprees them. Scores of moo- The case of this nobleman has some points of cent persons were hanged on the information of resemblance to that of Dove. was onroathe vilest wretches, for the blood-money fur- amiable, vindictive outragee .1,1 drunken. nithed by the 'Alf. About the end of the first His excesses and acts of violence • thought quarter of the last oenthry, the notorious Jona- by many to be so many proofs of ire it'''. L 2,11 Wild was hanged. -This vagabond was for was a husband of such brutal dispose...oe a gime an institution of justice. Ha was oaten- his lady was separated from him by Act &vilify a thief-taker, and a receiver of stolen pro- iament. Under circumstances of great Ire pony. The fact was that he had all the gangs cry and brutality, he shot Mr. Johnson his tits of thieves in London in his employment, and at ward, whom he thought inimical to his interests. his mercy. To appease the law' and disarm Previous to this foul deed, and after, the Earl uspicion, he gave up a few to the gallows every was in a state of frenzy, the effects of eicessive rear. On the morning betore his trial, in order intemperance. He was apprehended and cointo ben-peak the favourable consideration of his mitted to the Tower; and the indignation of the prosecutors and judges, he had printed papers public left no hope of screening him from the I emulated of the number of eriminabi he had de. justice of the law. The I '.orl was tried by the tooted and brought to justice. He had had House of Lords—and, notwithstanding thestrong thiege-five persons apprehended for robbery on plea of insanity, he was convicted, sentenced to the ghway ; twenty- two for house-breaking; be hanged at the common place of execution, and and ten for returning from transportation. The his body delivered to the surgeons for dissection. greater number of those wretches were executed On his way to Tyburn, the Earl expressed his and they did not complete the list of the eritnin. displeasure that he was to die as a common felels he had consigned to the gibbet from policy on in presence of the multitude. His body foror revenge. Wild was convicted on an Act of med the subject of =anatomical lecture, and was Parliament specially framed to meet his case. then privately interred. Another of the reanarIn the reign of George LL, a daughter killed an table trials of the lest century was that of Caindulgent parent, and a niece was concerned in theme Nairn and Lieutenant Ogilvie, before the murder of her uncle. A man of the name of the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, in Hainee had married the daughter near Gloucee- August 1765, for murder and incest. The vieter, who intended to divide his small estate tim of the wretched criminals was Thomas among his seven children. Haines, to get rid of Ogilvie, husband of the female, and brother of the family, that he might inherit the whole the male vino. net, whom they poisoned with through his wife, induced his father to procure arse...ic. I..ieutonan: Ogilme was hanged. His arsenic, which was administered to viz children, per in escaped from prison, it was One of the chil-ren died; thE ,tr.er five, after boheveci, threuft the pecuniary aid other brogreat suffering, recovered. The murderer con- ther, afterwards Lord Dunsinane, and nothing trived to effect his escape. The celebrated Eu- authentic is known of her after life. Dr. Dodd, gene Aram, on whose strange history Sir Edward Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty, a man Bulwer Lytton has founded his novel of that whose moral life was not irreproachable, was name, was hanged at York for the murder of executed on the 27th. of June 1777, for forging Daniel Clarke. Aram, who was a schoolmaster the name of the Earl of Chesterfield to a bond. at linariberough, along with Houseman, an The murder of two families hi London by Wilacoomplice, instigated Clarke to borrow value- items, a story of awful crime, so thrillingly told blee from various persona and abscond with the by De Quincy in 'Murder as me of the Fine 'v. Clarke, who lied the 'contained Arts; the poisoning by the fortune-telling : the fortres,- In ft tack.  booty boiely murdered bv his  Mazy &tatulu. of  ruined dupe  fmoriai