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1.
A true and particular account of the trial and execution of James O'Neil, : who was hanged on

Published / Created:
[1816]
Call Number:
File 523 T866 816
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title., Printed in two columns., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Marshall, printer
Subject (Geographic):
England, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Newcastle upon Tyne.
Subject (Name):
O'Neil, James, -1816
Subject (Topic):
Trials, litigation, etc, Trials (Attempted murder), Trials (Robbery), Executions and executioners, Brigands and robbers, and Trials
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A true and particular account of the trial and execution of James O'Neil, : who was hanged on Newcastle Town Moor on Saturday the 7th. of September, 1816, for highway robbery, and an attempt to murder

2.
Address delivered at the execution of James Garrard and James Perry

Creator:
Bennett, S., active 1815- author
Published / Created:
[1815]
Call Number:
File 68 815 B471
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title., "The following Address was delivered in the Chapel of the gaol at Chelmsford, by the Rev. S. Bennett, who officiated for the ordinary, on Friday, July 28, 1815, immediately before the execution of James Garrard and James Perry, convicted at the late Assizes of a robbery on the High Road near Romford, Essex ... The beginning of their sad misfortunes was, first of all, a neglect of Divine Worship on the Lord's Day, and their frequenting too often public-houses"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Ellerton and Henderson, printers, Johnson's Court
Subject (Geographic):
England, Essex., England., and Chelmsford
Subject (Name):
Garrard, James, -1815. and Perry, James, -1815.
Subject (Topic):
Crime, Thieves, Executions and executioners, and Execution sermons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Address delivered at the execution of James Garrard and James Perry

3.
Awful account of the dreadful execution of Mr. Matthew Grey, and Miss Susan Smith, for murder

Published / Created:
[approximately 1830]
Call Number:
File 52 Aw966 830+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Caption title., First line: In the county of Norfolk, lived one Mr. Matthew Grey, a gentleman about 39 years of age, possessed of a very good estate., Printed in three columns. With three woodcut illustrations at top: one depicting a man about to hurl an infant; one depicting a man and a woman hanging from nooses; and one depicting a woman burning an infant's corpse in a fireplace while being watched through a window. With "A copy of verses" printed in lower right: Give ear to this most horrid tale, this dismal tragedy, so foul and deep it cannot fail to moisten every eye. ..., Matthew Grey, apparently insane, decided his wife was unfaithful and that he was not the father of his three children. Enraged, he murdered his entire family. The gruesome sounds of the murders attracted the attention of his neighbors, who rushed to the scene and apprehended Grey. Susan Smith, a girl of 17, was pregnant with an unwanted child. Unable to abort the pregnancy, she murdered the baby shortly after it was born. Her crime was discovered when a neighbor saw her attempting to burn the baby's corpse in a fireplace., Printer's advertisement following imprint: -- Cards and handbills printed very neat and cheap., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Catnach, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
England, Norfolk., and England.
Subject (Name):
Grey, Matthew, -approximately 1830. and Smith, Susan, -approximately 1830.
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Infanticide, Executions and executioners, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Awful account of the dreadful execution of Mr. Matthew Grey, and Miss Susan Smith, for murder

4.
Execution at Horsemonger-lane Jail, Monday, April 11, 1836. Wm. Harley for the Chipstead burglary

Published / Created:
[1836?]
Call Number:
File 523 Ex96 836++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title. and Mounted to: 46 x 34 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by Taylor, 14 Waterloo-Road, near the Victoria Theatre, Lambeth
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Chipstead.
Subject (Name):
Harley, William, -1836.
Subject (Topic):
Executions and executioners, Burglary, Prisons, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Execution at Horsemonger-lane Jail, Monday, April 11, 1836. Wm. Harley for the Chipstead burglary

5.
Execution at Horsemonger-lane Jail, Monday, April 11, 1836. Wm. Harley for the Chipstead burglary

Published / Created:
[1836?]
Call Number:
File 523 Ex96 836++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title. and Mounted to: 46 x 34 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by Taylor, 14 Waterloo-Road, near the Victoria Theatre, Lambeth
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Chipstead.
Subject (Name):
Harley, William, -1836.
Subject (Topic):
Executions and executioners, Burglary, Prisons, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Execution at Horsemonger-lane Jail, Monday, April 11, 1836. Wm. Harley for the Chipstead burglary

6.
Execution of John Stacey, at Winchester, for the horrid murders of Mr Langtrey and his housekeeper

Published / Created:
[1829]
Call Number:
File 523 Ex96 829+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Caption title., First line: John Stacey, aged 21, and John Stacey his father, were indicted for the wilful murder ..., Printed in two columns. With woodcut illustration at top illustrating the scene of the execution which took place on the day of the Magdalen Hill Fair, Winchester, in front of a crowd. With a poem at the end "Mournful copy of verses": Come all ye youths of Britains Isle, and listen unto me, Take warning by my sad downfall, my evil destiny ..., John Stacey junior was convicted for the robbery and violent murder of Mr. Langtree and his housekeeper (and niece) Charity Jolliffe at their house in Portsmouth. This broadside offers the evidence of Ann Dyatt and James Hendy, who discovered the bodies, together with that of Mr. George Martell, surgeon, who examined the bodies. No evidence as to how Stacey was convicted is offered, but he, together with his father, both confessed to their crime. Stacey junior, who committed the murders, was executed; Stacey Senior, who was present during the crime, was sentenced to transportation., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Catnach, 7, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
England, Portsmouth., and Winchester.
Subject (Name):
Stacey, John, -1829.
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Thieves, Murder, Executions and executioners, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Execution of John Stacey, at Winchester, for the horrid murders of Mr Langtrey and his housekeeper, at Portsmouth

7.
Execution of Thistlewood, Ings, Brunt, Tidd, and Davidson, for high treason. At London, on Monday

Creator:
Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770-1820
Published / Created:
[1820]
Call Number:
LWL MSS 52 Folder 1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Primarily a description of the executions and the prisoners' behavior. and Date of imprint date from date of executions.
Publisher:
Pollock, printer, North Shields
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Brunt, J. T. 1782?-1820. (John Thomas),, Davidson, William, 1786-1820., Ings, James, -1820., Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770-1820., and Tidd, Richard, 1775?-1820.
Subject (Topic):
Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820, Executions and executioners, Trials (Conspiracy), Trials (Treason), and Cato Street, Conspiration de, 1820
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Execution of Thistlewood, Ings, Brunt, Tidd, and Davidson, for high treason. At London, on Monday, May 1, 1820

8.
Executions during the Lent Assizes

Published / Created:
[1827]
Call Number:
File 52 Ex96 827++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
"Broadside with four columns of prose and three woodcuts, one along the top with a line of 19 hanged persons, and in the centre two scenes, one of a man slitting the throat of a boy, the other of a man in prison surrounded by his weeping family."--British Museum online catalogue and "The text describes 14 different cases heard in April 1827, that resulted in the hanging of the person found guilty. None of the cases seems to have any relation to the two scenes in the woodcuts."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Caption title., First lines: Execution of Richard Thomas, for murder. Richard Thomas was indicted for the muder of Mary Ann Matilda Taylor ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Catnach, printer, 2, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Murderers, Executions and executioners, Hangings (Executions), Homicides, Prisoners, and Cells (Rooms & spaces)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Executions during the Lent Assizes

9.
Particulars of the trials and execution of John Hayes, James Boyce, Robert King, John Robinson

Published / Created:
[1826]
Call Number:
File 52 P273 826+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Caption title., First line: We have the painful task ..., Mostly printed in two columns, with short section at the bottom in three columns., With woodcut illustration at top illustrating the scene of the execution., The men, referred to in the text as ‘proper subjects for capital punishment’, were executed 29 November 1826 for the following crimes: Hayes was convicted of breaking into the dwelling-house of his employer; Boyce was part of a gang convicted for assault; King and Robinson were members of the Bethnal Green gang who committed ‘assault on the highway’; and Nicholls and Goulby were convicted of robbing a ‘poor old man ... attended with the most cruel and brutal violence’., and Contemporary ink annotation on verso noting the date of the execution. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T. Birt, 10, Great St. Andrews Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Trials (Assault and battery), Trials (Robbery), Executions and executioners, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Particulars of the trials and execution of John Hayes, James Boyce, Robert King, John Robinson, George Nicholls, and James Goulby : who were executed in front of the Old Bailey this morning

10.
The Ordinary of Newgate's account of the behaviour, confession and dying words of Theodore Gardelle

Published / Created:
[1761]
Call Number:
File 523 G211 761+
Image Count:
1
Description:
Includes Gardelle's account of his murder of Anne King and a description of his attempts at suicide after he was apprehended., Two woodcuts show Gardelle in his prison cell with visitors and the courtroom as the jury announces its verdict., and Not in ESTC.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
King, Anne, -1761., Gardelle, Théodore, 1722-1761., and Newgate (Prison : London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Executions and executioners, Murder, Criminals, Juries, Prisons, and Trials, litigation, etc
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Ordinary of Newgate's account of the behaviour, confession and dying words of Theodore Gardelle, who was executed in the Haymarket, London, on Saturday the fourth of April, 1761 for the barbarous and bloody murder of Mrs. Anne King