2,188 results
- Books
- Online
The triumphs of justice over unjust judges: exhibiting, I. The names and crimes of four and forty judges hang'd in one year in England, as murderers, for their corrupt judgments. II. The case of the Lord Chief Justice Tresilian, hang'd at Tyburn, and all the rest of the judges of England (save one) banisht in K. Rich. the Second's time. III. The crimes of Empson and Dudley, executed in K. Henry the Eight's days. IV. The proceedings of the ship-money judges in the reign of K. Charles the First. V. Divers other presidents, both antient and modern. To which is added, VI. The judges oath, and some observations thereupon. Humbly dedicated to the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs. And this edition is most humbly dedicated to the Right Honourable, Sir Robert Walpole.
Philo-Dicaios.Date: [1735]- Books
- Online
The history of Sawney Beane and his family, robbers and murderers, who took up their abode in a cave near to the sea-side, where they lived twenty-five years without so much as once going to visit any City, Town, or Village. How they robbed above one thousand persons, and murdered and eat all whom they robbed. How at last they were happily discovered by a Pack of Blood-Hounds, and how Sawney Beane, his Wife, Eight Sons, Six Daughters, Eighteen Grand-Sons, and Fourteen Grand-Daughters, were all seized and executed, by being cast alive into three Fires, and there burnt to Death.
Date: [1800?]- Books
- Online
Fair warnings to murderers of infants : being an account of the tryal, codemnation [sic] and execution of Mary Goodenough at the assizes held in Oxon in February, 1691/2 together with the advice sent by her to her children, in a letter sign'd by her own hand the night before she was executed, with some reflections added upon the whole : printed for the publick good.
Date: 1692- Books
Georg Letham : physician and murderer / Ernst Weiss ; translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg.
Weiss, Ernst, 1882-1940.Date: 2010- Books
Mary, the maid of the inn; : an interesting narrative; detailing the singular way she discovered her lover to be a robber and murderer; his conviction and execution; with her forlorn and destitute wanderings, and unhappy death.
Date: [1840?]- Books
- Online
A warning piece against the crime of murder: or, an account of many extraordinary and most providential discoveries of secret murders. ... Collected from several authors, ... with an intent to deter ...
Date: [1752]- Pictures
A man and a woman encounter each other in a wood: they are attacked by a bat and a snake, while a murdered woman lies in the foreground. Watercolour by G. Bonwick, 1966.
Bonwick, Gillian, active approximately 1966.Date: 18.3.66 [18 March 1966]Reference: 2913426iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
- Online
God's revenge against murder and adultery; remarkably displayed in a variety of tragical histories, containing examples, historical and moral: The whole exceedingly Entertaining and Instructive; and very necessary to deter and restrain us from giving a Loose to our Passions and irregular Appetites.
Reynolds, John, active 1621-1650.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
- Online
God's revenge against murder. Remarkably display'd in thirty tragical histories. Containing Great Variety of Examples, Historical and Moral, many strange and most lamentable Events: The Whole uncommonly Useful, Entertaining and Instructive; very necessary to deter and restrain us from giving a Loose to our Passions, and irregular Appetites. Each history introduced with a copper-plate of the principal passages.
Reynolds, John, active 1621-1650.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
- Online
God's revenge against murder and adultery: Remarkably displayed in thirty tragical histories: shewing the justice and power of divine providence in punishing such atrocious offences. The whole extremely interesting, entertaining, and instructive; very necessary to deter and restrain us from giving a loose to our passions and irregular appetites. Each history introduced with a copper plate, representing the most striking passages. A new edition revised and corrected, with a recommendatory preface, by the Rev. Philip Batteson, B.A.
Reynolds, John, active 1621-1650.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
The patient's eyes / David Pirie.
Pirie, David, 1946-Date: 2004- Pictures
The bleeding head of a murdered person on a woodworking bench. Gouache by N. Goullet, ca. 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: 4th Jan. [4 January 1955?]Reference: 2952394iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
- Online
Life, trial, confession & conviction of John Hanlon : for the murder of little Mary Mohrman, containing Judge Ludow's charge to the jury, & the speeches of the ... counsel on both sides.
Hanlon, John Francis, -1871Date: 1870- Pictures
- Online
An episode in 'The country curate' by G.R. Gleig: John Bushell the smith murders Noah, a Jewish pedlar; Bushell's wife Martha rushes into the room. Engraving by H. Rolls after F. Pickering, 1834.
Pickering, F. (Ferdinand), 1810-1889.Date: 1834Reference: 42884i- Books
When men murder women / R. Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash.
Dobash, R. EmersonDate: [2015]- Books
- Online
The trial of George Robert Fitzgerald, esq. Timothy Brecknock, esq. barrister at law, and others : for the murder of Patrick Randal McDonnel, esq. and Mr. Hipson / Taken in short hand by Patrick Murphy, gent.
Fitzgerald, George Robert, 1746-1786Date: [1786?]- Books
A history of murder : personal violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present / Pieter Spierenburg.
Spierenburg, Petrus Cornelis.Date: 2008- Books
Murder : a Home Office Research Unit report / by Evelyn Gibson and S. Klein.
Gibson, Evelyn.Date: 1961- Pictures
China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663450iPart of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband- Ephemera
An account of a shocking, barbarous, bloody, and inhuman MURDER committed on the body of Mary Griffiths, on Monday evening, the 3rd inst 1820, near Carlisle, in Cumberland.
Date: 1820- Books
Der "Mord" : Darstellung und Deutung in den Wissenschaften und Künsten = "Murder" : reproduction and interpretaion [i.e. interpretation] in sciences and arts / Dietrich v. Engelhardt und Manfred Oehmichen (Hrsg.).
Date: 2007- Books
- Online
The genuine account of the trial of Eugene Aram, for the murder of Daniel Clark, ... who was convicted at York Assizes, August 3, 1759, ... To which, ... is prefixed, an account of the remarkable discovery of the human skeleton at St Robert's Cave, ... To which are added the remarkable defence he made on his trial: ...
Aram, Eugene, 1704-1759.Date: 1759- Pictures
China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 663451iPart of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband- Books
- Online
The last dying speech and confession, Life, Parentage, and Education, Of the unfortunate George Dingler. Executed for the Wilful Murder of his Wife.
Date: 1800?]- Pictures
A man cutting the throat of another man with a knife. Gouache painting.
Reference: 726849i