Though of this tender age, yet were they convicted as old and daring depredators; so often had they already been arraigned at that bar where they were condemned, that the judge declared, notwithstanding their appearance, (they where short, dirty, ill-visaged boys), it was necessary, for the public safety, to cut them off, in order that other boys might learn, that, inured to wickedness, their tender age would not save them from an ignominious fate.

     The crime for which they suffered was committed with every circumstance of barbarity.  They forcibly took away a bundle, containing a jacket, shirt, and waistcoat, from a little boy, and then fell upon him, and would probably have murdered him, had they not been secured. They had long belonged to a most desperate gang of  pickpockets and footpads; but so hardened and obstinate were they, that they would not impeach their companions, though the hopes of mercy were held out to them, on making a confession, so that the villains might have been apprehended.  They were executed at Newgate, July 6th, 1791, apparently insensible of their dreadful situation.