Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Broadside: The Walworth Tragedy

Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Broadside: The Walworth Tragedy

Title Broadside: The Walworth Tragedy
Publisher Disley, Printer, 57, High Street, St. Gile
Time Period 19th century
Description Undated broadside titled, The Walworth Tragedy. On Tuesday morning, a most frightful murder was perpetrated at No. 16, Manor Place, Walworth Road, on the bodies of four persons, viz. : Mary, Youngman, mother of the prisoner, about 50 years of age; Thomas, her son, about 11; Charles, his brother, aged 6; and Mary Wells Streeter, a young woman about 27, to whom the prisoner was about to be married this day (Tuesday). Includes ballad verses.
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 broadside (9.75 x 7.25 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 Crimes Against Children
Intimate Partner Violence
Murder, Mass Murder
Provenance British Criminal Broadsides collection
Genre/Format broadsides
poetry
street ballads
Geographical Location United Kingdom. England