Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Broadside: The last dying-speech and confession, of the two malefactors, who were executed at Northampton, on Saturday, March 4, 1780, viz. Thomas Pool, for the murder of William Luck, by giving him two wounds with a knife, and Catharine Parker, for the murder of Thomas Cottingham, her apprentice, by beating, ill-treating, and starving him

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Broadside: The last dying-speech and confession, of the two malefactors, who were executed at Northampton, on Saturday, March 4, 1780, viz. Thomas Pool, for the murder of William Luck, by giving him two wounds with a knife, and Catharine Parker, for the murder of Thomas Cottingham, her apprentice, by beating, ill-treating, and starving him

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Title Broadside: The last dying-speech and confession, of the two malefactors, who were executed at Northampton, on Saturday, March 4, 1780, viz. Thomas Pool, for the murder of William Luck, by giving him two wounds with a knife, and Catharine Parker, for the murder of Thomas Cottingham, her apprentice, by beating, ill-treating, and starving him
Date 1780
Time Period 18th century
Description Broadside regarding the executions of Thomas Pool for the murder of William Luck, and Catharine Parker for the murder of Thomas Cottingham. Includes a woodcut illustration of the execution.
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 broadside (13.75 x 9.75 inches)
Institution Kent State University
Repository Special Collections and Archives
Finding aid title Finding Aid for the British Criminal Broadsides collection
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Format of Original document
Subject Capital Punishment
Murder, General
Provenance British Criminal Broadsides collection
Genre/Format broadsides
Geographical Location United Kingdom. England

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