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constant!}7 lived and slept, contained two others, that had
not been permitted to be opened for many years.
Among the bequests in her will, are £50 to the Kent
and Canterbury Hospitals; the same sum to the parish of
St. Peter; £5 to the minister of the parish for a funeral
sermon, and one guinea to each of the persons v\ho should
carry her to the grave; besides many other legacies, ge-
nerally to persons in no degree related to her.
And a few days after, aged about 43, in the parish of
Prees, in the county of Salop, a very singular character,
of the name of Booth. He was by trade a cobbler; had
existed (for he could hardly be said to have lived, having
deprived himself of common necessaries) upwards of
twenty years in a miserable hut, the roof of which had
fallen in some time ago. He was about six feet two or
three inches high ; very pale and meagre, his voice weak
and feminine, and had no beard either on his lip or chin.
In an old box in his possession, there were found upwards
of thirty love letters and valentines, which he had received
from different females in the neighbourhood; and also
money and bonds to the amount of near £500.—The for-
mer, no doubt, were the effects of sport among the fair
sex; to whom such characters appear, beyond measure^
ridiculous.
Interesting Particulars of George Forster, lately exe-
cuted for the Murder of his Wife and Child, by
drowning them in the New Canal at Paddington.
This unhappy malefactor was tried at the Old Bailey,
on Friday, January 14, 1803, and was one of the very
few instances of persons convicted upon circumstantial evi-
dence only: though on the morning of his execution, on
Monday following, he confessed his crime, and the justice
ef his sentence; and frankly owned, that he actually
pushed
INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF
constant!}7 lived and slept, contained two others, that had
not been permitted to be opened for many years.
Among the bequests in her will, are £50 to the Kent
and Canterbury Hospitals; the same sum to the parish of
St. Peter; £5 to the minister of the parish for a funeral
sermon, and one guinea to each of the persons v\ho should
carry her to the grave; besides many other legacies, ge-
nerally to persons in no degree related to her.
And a few days after, aged about 43, in the parish of
Prees, in the county of Salop, a very singular character,
of the name of Booth. He was by trade a cobbler; had
existed (for he could hardly be said to have lived, having
deprived himself of common necessaries) upwards of
twenty years in a miserable hut, the roof of which had
fallen in some time ago. He was about six feet two or
three inches high ; very pale and meagre, his voice weak
and feminine, and had no beard either on his lip or chin.
In an old box in his possession, there were found upwards
of thirty love letters and valentines, which he had received
from different females in the neighbourhood; and also
money and bonds to the amount of near £500.—The for-
mer, no doubt, were the effects of sport among the fair
sex; to whom such characters appear, beyond measure^
ridiculous.
Interesting Particulars of George Forster, lately exe-
cuted for the Murder of his Wife and Child, by
drowning them in the New Canal at Paddington.
This unhappy malefactor was tried at the Old Bailey,
on Friday, January 14, 1803, and was one of the very
few instances of persons convicted upon circumstantial evi-
dence only: though on the morning of his execution, on
Monday following, he confessed his crime, and the justice
ef his sentence; and frankly owned, that he actually
pushed