treasonous libel Thomas Neill Cream, doctor and blackmailer – tried, convicted, and hanged in 1892 for poisoning several of his patients as the "Lambeth Poisoner" Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders (whose protagonist is born and imprisoned in Newgate Prison) – held at Newgate in 1703 for seditious libel Claude Du Vall, highwayman – held in Newgate from December 1669 until his execution in January 1670 Amelia Dyer (1837–1896), known as the "Reading baby farmer" – serial killer, hanged 10 June 1896 Daniel Eaton, author and activist – imprisoned in 1812–1813 for atheism and blasphemous libel; the subject of the defence offered by Percy Bysshe Shelley in his essay, A Letter to Lord Ellenborough John Frith, Protestant priest and martyr – held at Newgate in 1533 before burning at the stake Mary Frith, alias "Moll Cutpurse", pickpocket and fence in the 1600s – in Newgate multiple times for multiple offenses Lord George Gordon, UK politician after whom the Gordon Riots are named – died of typhoid in 1793 in Newgate Jack Hall – a petty thief executed 1707 remembered only on account of his Gallows Confessional becoming a memorable folk song made popular with the adaptation Sam Hall by English comic minstrel, C.W. Ross. Ben Jonson, playwright and poet – imprisoned for killing fellow actor Gabriel Spenser in a 1598 duel; freed by pleading benefit of clergy Jørgen Jørgensen (1780–1841) – a Danish adventurer, who was on board one of the ships that established the first settlement in Tasmania in 1801; governor of Iceland for two months in 1809; a British spy – held in Newgate for theft before transport to Tasmania in 1825 William Kidd, known as "Captain Kidd", pirate and privateer – hanged at Execution Dock, Wapping in 1701 John Law, economist – sentenced to death at Newgate for murder by duel in 1694 Thomas Kingsmill (c1715–1749), leader of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers Thomas Lloyd, stenographer of the U.S. Congress – convicted of seditious libel while imprisoned for debt, and transferred to Newgate Prison for a three-year prison term (1794–1796) James MacLaine, known as the "Gentleman Highwayman" – held at Newgate during his 1750 trial for robbery Sir Thomas Malory – highwayman, probable author of Le Morte d'Arthur – at Newgate 1468–1470 after conviction for conspiracy to overthrow the king Catherine Murphy, counterfeiter – the last woman to be officially executed by burning