John St John Long (The Complete Newgate Calendar, Vol. 3)
secondary literature · 1926
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SUMMARY
1926 compiled edition of the historical Newgate Calendar genre, reproducing a detailed contemporary-style narrative account of both St John Long manslaughter cases; this is the same 1926 edition Wikipedia's own article cites as '(Newgate 1926)' for its trial paragraph, so the two are independently corroborating. Fetched directly in full (200 OK, plain HTML). Supplies verbatim courtroom and inquest detail not in the DNB or Wikipedia accounts: Catherine Cashin's age and health ('twenty-four years of age and in the full enjoyment of health') and her mother's description ('of great respectability and considerable fortune'); Long's own stated theory of treatment ('by creating an external wound and a discharge, to carry off the malady'); the attending surgeon's trial testimony that he could not see how the wound could cure or prevent consumption; the named defence witnesses (Sir Francis Burdett, the Countess of Buckinghamshire, Mr Prendergast M.P., Mr Higgs the brewer); the exact identification of the second victim ('Mrs Colin Campbell Lloyd, aged forty-eight, the wife of Captain Edward Lloyd, of the Royal Navy'); and the coroner's jury's exact manslaughter verdict and stated grounds ('gross ignorance, and on other considerations'). The younger Cashin sister (the original consumptive patient) is not named in this source, so this bundle does not name her.
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The 1926 Complete Newgate Calendar entry on John St John Long, fetched directly in full, is the bundle’s richest single source for verbatim courtroom and inquest language: Long’s own stated theory of “creating an external wound and a discharge, to carry off the malady,” the attending surgeon’s doubt that such a wound could cure or prevent consumption, the identities of named defence witnesses drawn from the aristocracy and Parliament, and the coroner’s jury’s exact wording in the second, fatal case (Mrs Colin Campbell Lloyd). It is the same 1926 edition Wikipedia’s own article relies on for its trial paragraph, so its facts corroborate rather than duplicate the Wikipedia and DNB sources in this bundle. It does not name the younger Cashin sister, so this bundle likewise leaves her unnamed rather than adopting an unverified name from a search-tool summary.