Famous London prison

Usage examples of newgate.

Address to his unhappy Brethren, a sermon delivered by Dr. Dodd, in the chapel of Newgate.

He was, in fact, best pleased to be known as plain Titus Oates, and would chortle heartily over his chances of tracing a pedigree back to the notorious inventor of the Popish Plot who was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate and from Newgate to Tyburn some three hundred years ago.

Tell him I was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate, and from Newgate to Tyburn.

Chief Inspector Teal, the hero of the case, caught unawares in the very act of inserting some fresh chewing gum in his mouth as he stepped out on to the pavement of Newgate Street, was featured looking almost libellously like an infuriated codfish afflicted with some strange uvular growth.

In Britain, one of the most notorious cases of strangling was that of Amelia Dyer, known as the `Baby Farmer', who choked to death at least seven children who were left in her care before her arrest and execution at Newgate Prison in 1896.

All the scenes were painted from nature, including the public-house that the robber frequented in Claremarket, and the condemned cell from which he had made his escape in Newgate.

I suspect that, during epidemics of jail fever at Newgate and Fleet, a vampire could feed for weeks without anyone being the wiser or caring.

Conyngham remembered then that he had a sheriffs order, so we all trooped across to Newgate to get a squint at the chap in the condemned cell, and I remember how that boozy, rowdy party fell silent once we were in Newgate Yard, with the dank black walls crowding in on either side, our steps sounding hollow in the stone passages, breathing short and whispering while the turnkey grinned horribly and rolled his eyes to give Conyngham his money's worth.