Identifier: chroniclesofcrim01pelh (find matches)
Title: The chronicles of crime, or The new Newgate calendar. Being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to the present time including a number of curious cases never before published. Embellished with fifty-two engravings, from original drawings by "Phiz" (pseud.)
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Pelham, Camden, pseud Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. illus. cn
Subjects: Crime Criminals
Publisher: London, T. Tegg (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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sent for another bottle, which he also drank, and then fell senselesss on the
floor. Having lain some time in this condition, he got, with much diffi-
culty, into another room, and threw himself on a bed. When he was
asleep, his wife told her associates that this was the time to execute their
plan, as there was no fear of any resistance on his part, and accordingly
Billings went into the room with a hatchet, with which he struck Hayes
so violently that he fractured his skull. At this time Hayes's feet hung
off the bed; and the torture arising from the blow made him stamp
repeatedly on the floor, which, being heard by Wood, he also went into
the room, and, taking the hatchet out of Billing's hand, gave the poor man
two more blows, which effectually despatched him. A woman, named
Springate, who lodged in the room over thnt where the murder was com-
mitted, hearing the noise occasioned by Hayes's stamping, imagined that
the parties might have quarelled in consequence of their intoxication ; and
going down stairs, she told Mrs. Hayes that the noise had awakened her
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husband, her child, and herself. Catherine, however, had a ready answer to
this : she said some company had visited them, and were grown merry, but
they were on the point of taking their leave; and Mrs. Springate returned
to her room well satisfied. The murderers now consulted on the best
manner of disposing of the body, so as most effectually to prevent detec-
tion. Mrs. Hayes proposed to cut off the head, because, if the body was
found whole, it would be more likely to be known, and the villains agreeing
to this proposition, she fetched a pail, lighted a candle, and all of them
went into the room. The men then drew the body partly off the bed, and
Billings supported the head, while Wood, with his pocket-knife, cut it off,
and the infamous woman held the pail to receive it, being as careful as
possible that the floor might not be stained with the blood. This being,
done, they emptied the blood out of the pail into a sink by the window,
and poured several pails of water after it.

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