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Author/Creator:Shaw, Charles, -1834.
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Title:The trials of Charles Shaw, aged 16, for murdering John Oldcroft, aged 9. Richard Tomlinson for murdering Mary Evans, his sweetheart. Mary Smith, for drowning her infant child. Who all three received sentence of death, at the late Staffordshire assizes, execution last Wednesday, March 19, 1834.
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Publication:[London] : G. Smeeton, Printer, 74, Tooley Street., [1834]
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Physical Description:1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (wood engraving) ; 36 x 25 cm
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Yale Holdings
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: File 52 Sh534 834+
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Notes:For further information, consult library staff.
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Provenance:Jarndyce; February 2022.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Notes:Caption title.
Date of imprint from date of trials.
Account of the three trials, with one column of verse on the murder of John Oldcroft.
In the text, the name of the murder victim is given as Charles Oldcroft, not John, as in the title.
Verses begin : Oh! listen to a tale of woe, I now to you unfold.
Wood engraving (8 x 14.2 cm.) : Hanging scene before prison walls, with spectators.
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Subjects:Oldcroft, John.
Shaw, Charles, -1834.
Tomlinson, Richard, -1834.
Smith, Mary, -1834.
Shaw, Charles, -1834.
Smith, Mary, -1834.
Tomlinson, Richard, -1834.
Trials (Infanticide)--England--Staffordshire.
Trials (Murder)--England--Staffordshire.
Murder--England--Poetry.
Murder.
Trials (Infanticide)
Trials (Murder)
Hangings (Executions)
England.
England--Staffordshire.
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Genre/Form:Woodcuts--England--19th century.
Wood engravings--England--19th century.
Broadsides.
Poetry.
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Also listed under:Smith, Mary, -1834.
Tomlinson, Richard, -1834.
England--London.
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