An account of a most barbarous and unparalleled MURDER of Ann Smith, a ballad singer, by a wretch named Samuel Thorley, a butcher's assistant, at Congleton, Cheshire, and who actually eat [sic] part of the flesh of his unfortunate victim.

Date:
[1820?]
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Broadside, describing the dismemberment of Ann Smith by Samuel Thorley in full, bloody detail. It relates his devouring of parts of her body and his subsequent hanging.

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Sunderland : G. Summers, [1820?]

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1 broadside ; 29 cm

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