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  • Adam Alvin, servant of Enoch Sinclair

    Date: 1712

    Crime:
    Murder of Rev Enoch Sinclair of Owthorne, Holderness, in 1708.

    George Poulson, History and Antiquities of ? Holderness, 1841, vol 2, p 407.

  • Richard Turpin / John Palmer / John Pawmer, born Hempstead, Essex, former butcher, 33

    Date: 7 Apr 1739

    Crime:
    Horse stealing - a black mare price ?3, a black filly foal price 20s, and black gelding price ?3, all belonging to Thomas Creasy of Welton.

    See also TNA: ASSI 45/21/3(57).

    TNA: ASSI 41/3. London Evening Post, 12 Apr 1739. The Trial of the Notorious Highwayman Richard Turpin ? taken down in Court by Mr. Thomas Kyll, 1739. The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin, &c. 1739. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol 25, p 440. Criminal Chronology, p 47.

  • Richard Clark, born at Spittal, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, in 1739

    Date: 18 Apr 1767

    Crime:
    Breaking and entering the dwelling house of Mark Hattersley at Ripon and stealing goods and money to the value of 5s.

    Had been sentenced to transportation at the Yorkshire Assizes Lent 1759 and several times after that from other assizes around the country; confessed that he came from a family of habitual thieves and returning transports; by his own account he had been transported to Maryland or Virginia three times. See also TNA: ASSI 45/28/1/14B-14D.

    TNA: ASSI 41/5; ASSI 42/8. London Evening Post, 21 Apr 1767. Criminal Chronology, p 84.

  • John Darcy / John D'Arcy of Hunslet, Leeds, jobbing clock-mender, Roman Catholic, 26

    Date: 27 May 1879

    Crime:
    Murder of William Metcalfe, retired gatekeeper, 85, at Oulton-cum-Woodlesford, near Leeds, on 4 Mar 1879.

    Metcalfe lived in the lodge at the gates of Oulton Park, owned by the Calverley family, his former employers. Darcy had previously been convicted of sacrilege at Dublin for which he had been sentenced to 5 years' penal servitude. His was the third private execution at York Castle, but the first from which the press were excluded, a fact which excited much comment in the press under headings such as 'Secret Executions'.

    Leeds Mercury, 7 May 1879. Newcastle Courant, 30 May 1879.

  • John Hannah of Manchester, tailor, 27

    Date: 27 Dec 1856

    Crime:
    Murder of Jane Banham, n?e Jane Hope, estranged partner and mother of Hannah's illegitimate children, at Malt Mill Inn, Armley, Leeds on 11 Sep 1856.

    Banham, who had been abandoned by her husband, was the principal dancer in a travelling corps of entertainers headed by her father, John Hope, formerly of India. Hannah's supporters, who attempted to get a respite for him, argued that he had been driven into a frenzy by Banham's refusal to live with him and her refusal to give him access to her children. Hannah was the son of William Hannah of 15 Lombard Street, Deangate, Manchester. His last letters to his family were published verbatim in the Leeds Mercury and other papers.

    Morning Chronicle, 16 Dec 1856. Leeds Mercury, 24 Dec 1856; 30 Dec 1856.

  • Hannah Whiteley / Hannah Whitley of Hampsthwaite, wife of John Whiteley

    Date: 3 Aug 1789

    Crime:
    Murder by arsenic poisoning of Joseph Rhodes, aged 5, son of Thomas Rhodes of Hampsthwaite, and attempted murder by arsenic poisoning of all Thomas Rhodes' family.

    See also TNA: ASSI ASSI 45/36/3/211-220.

    Calendar of Felons, Summer Assizes 1789. Whitehall Evening Post, 11 Aug 1789. Criminal Chronology, p 102.

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  • Richard Clark, suspected deserter from 66th Regiment, born at Spital, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, in 1739

    Date: Lent 1759

    Crime:
    Highway robbery: assaulting and demanding money with menaces from Robert Fisher; transportation 7 years Lent 1759.

    Was hanged at York on 18 Apr 1767, having been convicted of house-breaking; confessed that he came from a family of habitual thieves and returning transports; by his own account he had been sentenced to and returned from transportation to Maryland or Virginia three times

    TNA: ASSI 41/4; ASSI 42/7. Calendar of Felons, 28 Jul 1759. London Evening Post, 21 Apr 1767.

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