Episode 019: William Colthouse: The Jacobite Highwayman of Yorkshire

Podcast: Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals · Dark Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-09-21

Send us your Feedback William Colthouse is a well-educated Yorkshire man with firm religious principles and even firmer political convictions; it is these convictions that first drag him into the orbit of criminality. As recorded in Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, his outspoken Jacobite sympathies land him inside Newgate, where the company he keeps teaches him a new and darker set of skills. What emerges from this true crime account is a figure caught between conscience and temptation: a man who knows the difference between right and wrong yet finds the lure of easy...