The Newgate calendar improved : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters who have been convicted of offences against the laws of England ... To which is added a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world, v.1-2 / by George Theodore Wilkinson.

  • Wilkinson, George Theodore.
Date:
[1819?]
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Credit: The Newgate calendar improved : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters who have been convicted of offences against the laws of England ... To which is added a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world, v.1-2 / by George Theodore Wilkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    threatened, in case of his non-compliance, to put an end to all his prospects with that young lady, by discovering every thing that had passed between them. Hereupon Caddell formed the horrid resolu- tion of murdering Miss Price; for he could neither bear the thought of forfeiting the esteem of a wo- man that he courted, nor of marrying one who had been as condescending to another as to himself. called on Miss Price, on a Saturday evening, and re- quested that she would walk in the fields with him on the afternoon of the following day, in order to adjust a plan of their intendea marriage. Miss Price, thus deluded, met him at the time appointed, on the road leading towards Burton-upon-Trent, at a house known by the sign of the Nag’s Head, Having accompanied her supposed lover into the fields, and walked about till towards evening, they then sat down under the hedge, where, after a little conversation, Caddell suddenly pulled out a knife, cut her throat, and made his escape, but not before he had waited till she was dead. However, in the distraction of his mind, he left behind him the knife with which he had perpetrated the deed, together with his case of instruments. When he came home it was observed that he appeared exceedingly con- fused; though the reason. of the perturbation. of his mind could not even be guessed at. But on the following morning Miss Price being found murdered in the field, great numbers of people went to take a view of the body, among whom was the woman of the house where she lodged, who recollected that she had said she was going to walk with Mr. Cad- deil; on which the instruments were examined, and known to have belonged to him: he was accordingly taken into custody, and committed to the gaol of Stafford ; and being soon afterwards tried, was found guilty, condemned, and executed, at Stafford.