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1.
A particular account of Thomas Smith : who was to have been executed at Dorchester, 19 March, 1804

Published / Created:
[1804]
Call Number:
File 523 Sm662 804
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title., A broadside recording the details of a murder of Ann Clark, committed by the accused Thomas Smith her lodger in Dorchester and the subsequent arrest and trial of Smith for the crime. Clark hanged himself the night before his planned execution., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
E. Lockett, printer, Dorchester
Subject (Geographic):
England and Dorchester.
Subject (Name):
Smith, Thomas, -1804.
Subject (Topic):
Murderers and Suicide
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A particular account of Thomas Smith : who was to have been executed at Dorchester, 19 March, 1804, for the wilful murder of Ann Clark of Briant's Piddle, in the county of Dorset

2.
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

3.
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

4.
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

5.
Hertfordshire tragedy. Or, The evil effects of gaming. Giving the particulars of the execution of

Published / Created:
[1823]
Call Number:
File 523 W362 823H++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Caption title., First lines: What horrid deeds from gaming, take place now every day, the human mind inflaming, 'tis sure to lead astray ..., Entirely in verse; text printed in five columns confined to lower half of sheet. The six woodcut illustrations include two portraits of the accused with mention of their punishments ("John Thurtell, guilty, death"; "Joseph Hunt for transporta[t]ion"); three views of areas associated with the crime ("A view of Gill's Hill Lane"; "View of Probert's cottage and pond"; "The pond where the body was found"); and an uncaptioned depiction of the public execution of Thurtell in front of a crowd of onlookers and hawkers., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Pitts printer, wholesale toy and marble warehouse, 6, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
England and Hertfordshire.
Subject (Name):
Weare, William, -1823., Thurtell, John, 1794-1824., Hunt, Joseph, active 19th century., and Probert, William, -1825.
Subject (Topic):
Murder, Murderers, and Hangings (Executions)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Hertfordshire tragedy. Or, The evil effects of gaming. Giving the particulars of the execution of John Thurtell, for the murder of Mr. Weare. -- (in verse).

6.
Letter : Henley, to William Toovey at Turvill Heath, 1746 August 7.

Creator:
Blandy, Francis, -1751
Call Number:
LWL Mss File 127
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
ALS from Francis Blandy to William Toovey relating to legal instructions and referring to a certain person who "has been getting at [the] knowledge of the affair in order to lessen your allowance." Also with an 18th century newspaper clipping advertising a publication about Mary Blandy's affair with Mr. Cranstaun, her crime, and execution, dated 1752
Description:
In English. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Blandy, Mary, 1720-1752.
Subject (Topic):
Murderers
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Letter : Henley, to William Toovey at Turvill Heath, 1746 August 7.

7.
Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing [the] chambers of Mrs

Published / Created:
[ca. 1733]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Sarah Malcolm, three-quarter length, turned to right but looking to left, her hands resting on a simple wooden table
Description:
Title etched below image., Pirated by an unknown printmaker; possibly the first state without the price added above image. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129., Mounted on page 72 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
Subject (Topic):
Murderers and Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing [the] chambers of Mrs. Lydia Duncomb in [the] Temple, and murdering her, Eliz. Harrison & Ann Price

8.
Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing [the] chambers of Mrs

Published / Created:
[approximately 1733]
Call Number:
Kinnaird 64K(a) Box 105
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Sarah Malcolm, three-quarter length, turned to right but looking to left, her hands resting on a simple wooden table
Description:
Title etched below image., Pirated by an unknown printmaker; second state with price added above image. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Etched above image: Price 6d., and See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd edition), numbers 129.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
Subject (Topic):
Murderers and Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing [the] chambers of Mrs. Lydia Duncomb in [the] Temple, and murdering her, Eliz. Harrison & Ann Price

9.
Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing [the] chambers of Mrs

Published / Created:
[approximately 1733]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Sarah Malcolm, three-quarter length, turned to right but looking to left, her hands resting on a simple wooden table
Description:
Title etched below image., Pirated by an unknown printmaker; second state with price added above image. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Etched above image: Price 6d., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd edition), numbers 129., and On page 53 in volume 1. Plate mark 200 x 177 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
Subject (Topic):
Murderers and Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing [the] chambers of Mrs. Lydia Duncomb in [the] Temple, and murdering her, Eliz. Harrison & Ann Price

10.
Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing the chambers of Mrs. Lydia

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[not before March 1733]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A reversed copy of a Hogarth print. Portrait of Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on publication of Hogarth's version., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See note in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 129., and On page 53 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
Subject (Topic):
Murderers and Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sarah Malcolm executed in Fleet Street, March [the] 7th 1732 for robbing the chambers of Mrs. Lydia Duncomb in [the] Temple and murdering her, Eliz. Harrison & Ann Price