The Newgate calendar; or, malefactors bloody register. Containing genuine and circumstantial narratives of the lives and transactions, various exploits and dying speeches of the most notorious criminals of both sexes, who suffered death, … in Great Britain and Ireland, from the year 1700, to the present time, vol.

London : For J. Cooke, [1774?]

This account in The Newgate calendar (1733) shows Sarah Malcombe – “a most hardened wretch” – being apprehended after robbing and killing a rich old woman, along with her friend and maid, before framing two young men for her crime.

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