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Murderers - Early works to 1800
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We have the following account of a horrid murder committed by pirates on the coast of Ireland, and how they threw the crew over board.
Date: 1725?]- Books
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The Ordinary of Newgate's account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words of four malefactors, Viz. of Anne Hullock who was executed at Tyburn, on Saturday the 24th of May, for murder. Of Francis David Stirn, who died in Newgate, on Friday the 12th of September, being under sentence of death for murder: and of William Odell, and John Dempsy, who were executed on Monday, September the 15th, 1760. Being the fourth and fifth executions in the mayoralty of the Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas Chitty, knt. lord-mayor of the city of London. Number IV. for the said year.
Roe, Stephen, active 1756.Date: [1760]- Books
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The genuine memoirs of the life of Sir John Dinely Goodere, Bart. who was murder'd by the contrivance of his own brother, on board the Ruby Man of War, in King-Road near Bristol, Jan 19, 1740. Together with the life, history, tryal, and last dying words, of his brother Capt. Samuel Goodere, who was executed at Bristol, on Wednesday the 15th day of April, 1741, for the horrid murder of the said Sir John Dinely Goodere, Bart. Dedicated to the Right Worshipful Henry Combe, Esq; mayor of Bristol. By S. Foote, of Worcester-College, Oxford, Esq; and nephew to the late Sir John Dinely Goodere, Bart.
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.Date: [1741?]- Books
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A strange and wondetful [sic] account of a most horrid, barbarous and bloody murder, commitetd by Thomas Doyle, a stone-cutter, living at Loughlins-Bridge, in the county of Carlo, on Saturday the eight day of November, 1718. On the bodys of his wife and mother, in manner follovving [sic], viz. ...
Doyle, Thomas, stone-cutter.Date: Printed in the year 1718- Books
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Gods judgment against murderers. Or, an account of a cruel and barbarous murther, Committed on Thursday Night, the 14th of August, at Sadler's Musick-House near Islington, on the Body of Mr. Waite, a Lieutenant of a Man of War, by one Mr. French, a Lawyer of the Temple; shewing how they Quarrell'd about Women. With an Account of his Examination before the Worshipful Justice Ward, and his Commitment to Newgate. To which is added, the dreadful fate of a young gentleman who murder'd his own mother, and the Terrible End he came to.
Date: 1712