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London Crime and Fire Briefs From the Week
Reports detail executions at the Old Bailey for highway robberies and thefts, a Newgate execution rescheduled, a Compton Park fire destroying a barn while dwellings survived, stagecoach and coach accident near Kensington, a sudden death by hanging in Marylebone Court, and Turpin the Butcher among bold night raiders. Also notes on Allied diplomacy, plague of war, and local charity libraries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wilson
Robert Morpeth
Robert Kéff
Joan Mackdanel
Mackdonald
Thomas Martin
Pup
Dack
Newgate
Edward Ormsby
Compton+Park
Calne
Wilthhire
William Worthy
His
Hackney Marsh
London
Southampton
Kensington
Margaret Weldon
Lord Delawyr
Margaret Perr
Clifford-Street
New Forest
Hampshire
Omar
Southwark
Barnes
Barnes-Common
Wandworth
Turpin
Gregory
Newington
Croydon
Smithfield
Thomas Screen
John Screen
Marygold Court
Strand
States General
Marquess de Fenelon
Great Britain
Europe
Poland
France
Italy
Ratisbon
Carinthia
Brandenburg
Empire
Bavaria
Berlin
Prussia
Potsdam
Stettin
Great
Augustus
Rhine
Marshal de Coigny
Landau
Oppenheim
Frankenthal
Selz
Hanover
Vienna
Herenhausen
Prince Royal of
Pruffia
Hamburg
Prince of Anhalt-Deffau
White Swan
Fleet-Ditch
Sharp
Rivers
Wiltshire
Bray
England
Wales
Queen Anne
Fames Vernon
Grosvenor-street
William Belitha
Kingston Upon Thames
Hales
Leddington
Hampton Court
John Burton
Eaton College
Exton
Arthur Bedford
Haberdalbers Hospital
Hoxton
Samuel Smith
Aldgate