The Ordinary of Newgate's account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words of four malefactors , Viz. of Anne Hullock who was executed at Tyburn, on Saturday the 24th of May, for murder. Of Francis David Stirn, who died in Newgate, on Friday the 12th of September, being under sentence of death for murder: and of William Odell, and John Dempsy, who were executed on Monday, September the 15th, 1760. Being the fourth and fifth executions in the mayoralty of the Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas Chitty, knt. lord-mayor of the city of London. Number IV. for the said year.

The last speeches and dying words of Tulley Slevin, John Dempsy, and Patrick Murphy , who is [sic] to be hanged drawn and quartred at St. Stephens Green for coyning gold this present Wednesday being the 3d of May 1727.

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