Oversize ephemera. EPH+49.

Includes crime and executions ephemera. Mostly broadsides describing the crimes and executions of those being killed. Also the poisoning of Mary Bateman and William Perigo (1808), Mr. Belany who poisoned his wife (1844), Mary Dodds (1827), Thomas Martin (1834), Isabella Middlemas (1832), a headless woman found in the river Tyne (1832), Calendar of prisoners awaiting trial at Durham, Morpeth and Newcastle (1830), James Cawthorne (1821), Andrew Barton and James Frampton, list of clippers, coiners, highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers, murders executed at Tyburn (1688-1691), Elizabeth Warriner, executions in England in 1679 (illustrated), Thomas Bainbridge (1729), sentences for the Lincolnshire summer assizes (1838), John Bruce murdered by his apprentice (1838), sentences for the Warwick Lent assizes (1811), the bloody gardener's cruelty, William Osborne (1828), Charles Lewes, Alexander Williamson murdered by Maitland Smith (1807), conditions of employment for an assistant executioner (1907), report of outrage (Tipperary 1873), The Hangman (a new ballad), John William Holloway (1831), resurrectionists at Liverpool (1826), execution of Graff Cajetani (1709), James Longhurst (1867), Elizabeth Stinton, Mary Potter (1827), Charles McKay (1843), Henry and Thomas Wainwright (1875), John Slater, James Henry, James Kelly, John Macbeth (1833), George Weddell (1832), Franz Muller (1864), Giacomo de'Principi Giustiniani (1815), John Alderson (stealing lead coffins from All Saints churchyard), 'The affectionate daughter' (Antony Molina, sentenced to death by starvation and saved "by the milk from his daughter's breast").