A True and particular account of the cruel and inhuman murder, that was committed by one Susanna Morton, aged 23 years, on her bastard child, with the assistance of one James Preston, aged 70, who were both executed on Thursday last, at Derby, together with their last dying words and confessions; likewise the most remarkable and shocking account of Ann Hoon, aged 24 years, for the murder of her infant child, about 14 months old, by throwing it into a tub of water, in order to surrender herself up for execution, on account of her being threatened with a prosecution for breaking down a rail or two of a fencing belonging to a gentleman's plantation in the neighbourhood, she being short of wood to heat her oven, and could not bear the thoughts of being parted from her child whom she was so fond of. Also an account of the murder of Hannah Oldfield, by Job Ward, her fellow servant, by giving her arsenic, for the purpose of procuring abhortion, she being with child by him.

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1796?]
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[Derby or London? : s.n., 1796?]

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8 p. : 1 ill. ; 40

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ESTC T300556

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