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[ According to one account. The Newgate Calendar (London 1773) gives Mrs Duncomb's age as eighty and that of the maid Betty as sixty.]
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[ One account says it was Sarah Malcolm who entered via the gutter and window. Borrow, however, in his Celebrated Trials, quotes Mrs Oliphant's evidence in court on this point.]
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[ Or Kerrol—the name varies in different accounts of the crime.]
19 ([return])
[ Peter Buck, a prisoner.]
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[ Born 1711, Durham, according to The Newgate Calendar.]