Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Broadside: Trial and sentence of Lefroy

Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Broadside: Trial and sentence of Lefroy

Title Broadside: Trial and sentence of Lefroy
Publisher London: H. SUCH, Printer and Publisher, [?]7, Union Street, Borough, S. E.
Time Period 19th century
circa 1881
Description Undated broadside street ballad regarding the trial and sentencing of Percy Mapleton Lefroy for the murder of Frederick Gold on the Brighton Line. An inscription is written on the bottom right corner, "Lefroy was hung last Tuesday week he wasn't but twenty two years of age."
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 broadside (9.75 x 7.5 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
poetry
street ballads
Geographical Location United Kingdom. England