Episode 015: Nathaniel Hawes: The Young Highwayman of Finchley Common

Podcast: Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals · Dark Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-08-24

Send us your Feedback Nathaniel Hawes is barely out of his apprenticeship when he begins stealing from his master's cash box, a slow slide from mischief into something far darker. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals presents him as one of those young men who mistakes recklessness for courage; a Norfolk grazier's orphan who falls into expensive company and never finds his way back out. Among the true crime figures of early Georgian England, Hawes stands out not for cunning or calculation but for sheer, blistering nerve. He is sprightly, sharp, and utterly convinced that...