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SAHAH MALCOLM. 2QQ
was concerned. Her confession they considered
as a mere subterfuge, none knowing such people
as she pretended were her accomplices.
A few days after, a boy about seventeen years
-of age was hired as a servant by a person who
kept the Red Lion alehouse at Bridewell Bridge;
and hearing it said, in his master's house, that Sa-
rah Malcolm had given in an information against
one Thomas and James Alexander, and Mary
Tracy, said to his master, " my name is James
Alexander, and I have a brother named Thomas,
and my mother nursed a woman where Sarah
Malcolm lived. Upon this acknowledgment, the
master sent to Alstone, turnkey of Newgate; and
the boy being confronted with Malcolm, she im-
mediately charged him with being concealed under
Mrs. Buncombe's bed, previous to Jetting in Tracy
and his brother, by whom and himself the mur-
ders were committed. On this evidence he was
detained; and frankly telling where his brother
and Tracy were to be found, they also were taken
into custody, and brought before Sir Richard
Erocas; here Malcolm persisted in her former
asseverations; but the magistrate thought her un-
worthy of credit, and would have discharged them;
but being advised by some persons present to act
with more caution, committed them all to New-
gate. Their distress was somewhat alleviated by
the gentlemen of the Temple Society, who, fully
convinced of their innocence, allowed each of
was concerned. Her confession they considered
as a mere subterfuge, none knowing such people
as she pretended were her accomplices.
A few days after, a boy about seventeen years
-of age was hired as a servant by a person who
kept the Red Lion alehouse at Bridewell Bridge;
and hearing it said, in his master's house, that Sa-
rah Malcolm had given in an information against
one Thomas and James Alexander, and Mary
Tracy, said to his master, " my name is James
Alexander, and I have a brother named Thomas,
and my mother nursed a woman where Sarah
Malcolm lived. Upon this acknowledgment, the
master sent to Alstone, turnkey of Newgate; and
the boy being confronted with Malcolm, she im-
mediately charged him with being concealed under
Mrs. Buncombe's bed, previous to Jetting in Tracy
and his brother, by whom and himself the mur-
ders were committed. On this evidence he was
detained; and frankly telling where his brother
and Tracy were to be found, they also were taken
into custody, and brought before Sir Richard
Erocas; here Malcolm persisted in her former
asseverations; but the magistrate thought her un-
worthy of credit, and would have discharged them;
but being advised by some persons present to act
with more caution, committed them all to New-
gate. Their distress was somewhat alleviated by
the gentlemen of the Temple Society, who, fully
convinced of their innocence, allowed each of