Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Broadside: Cries of innocent blood; or murder discovered by the hand of God!...

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Broadside: Cries of innocent blood; or murder discovered by the hand of God!...

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Title Broadside: Cries of innocent blood; or murder discovered by the hand of God!...
Publisher J. Catnach, Printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Time Period circa 19th century
Description Undated broadside regarding the murder of Christopher Mulldon by Rebecca Watt and two other women. Includes ballad verses and woodcut illustrations of the crime.

Full title: The cries of innocent blood; or, murder discovered by the hand of God! Being the remarkable account of Rebecca Watt, and two other women, barbarously and inhumanly murdering and robbing one Christopher Mulldon, a Marine belonging to the Couragenx [sic] by beating out his brains with a poker, six years ago, in a bagnio, at Portsmouth Point. Their attempts to fling the body into the sea, which not being able accomplish, they dug a grave, and buried it in the sands. The account of Rebecca Watt's voyage to Ireland, after receiving six Guineas of the murdered Marine's money. The frightful spectres, horrid dreams, and remarkable apparitions, which continually tormented her, both day and night. Her coming back to England, and going to Chatham, where (stung with the remorse of a guilty conscience), she confessed the whole tranaction [sic], and being taken before a magistrate, was committed to prison, to take her trial at the next Assizes.
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 broadside (15 x 9.5 inches)
Institution Kent State University
Repository Special Collections and Archives
Finding aid title Finding Aid for the British Criminal Broadsides collection
Access Rights This digital object is owned by Kent State University and may be protected by U.S. Copyright law (Title 17, USC). Please include proper citation and credit for use of this item. Use in publications or productions is prohibited without written permission from Kent State University. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives for more information.
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Format of Original document
Subject Heists & Robberies
Murder, General
Women in Crime
Provenance British Criminal Broadsides collection
Genre/Format broadsides
poetry
street ballads
Geographical Location United Kingdom. England

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