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An account of a shocking, barbarous, bloody, and inhuman MURDER committed on the body of Mary Griffiths, on Monday evening, the 3rd inst 1820, near Carlisle, in Cumberland.
Date: 1820
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Medico-legal treatise on homicide by external violence.
Watson, Alexander, 1799-1879Date: 1842
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Étude médico-légale du meutre rituel / Jules Marcus.
Marcus, Jules.Date: 1900
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An account of the crime, trial, confession, and execution of Charles Smith : who was hanged on Newcastle Town Moor, on Wednesday the 3d. of December, 1817, for the barbarous and cruel MURDER of Charles Stewart, at Ousebourn Pottery.
Date: 1817
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A drunken man is arrested for killing his wife. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1847Reference: 25970i
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The invention of murder : how the Victorians revelled in death and detection and created modern crime / Judith Flanders.
Judith FlandersDate: 2011
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A destitute girl throws herself from a bridge, her life ruined by alcoholism. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848.
George CruikshankDate: 1848Reference: 26034i
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Miscellaneous notes : (tenth series) / F. Parkes Weber.
Frederick Parkes WeberDate: 1961
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Narrative of the barbarous murder of Madame Mazel, a French lady of distinction : with an account of the trial, torture, and death, of her valet de chambre, Le Brun ; who was declared, on presumptive evidence, to be guilty of the murder, or accessary thereto ; also the confession and execution of the real murderer, who was miraculously discovered some time afterwards.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]
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Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr. Engraving by W.T. Fry.
Bernardino, da Asola, active 1526.Date: [1832?]Reference: 6825i
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A full account of a barbarous, cruel, and inhuman MURDER, committed by Mary King, on the bodies of her four children, by pouring boiling lead in their ears : also an account and trial and execution.
Date: [1820?]
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Cain slaying Abel. Etching by V. Lefebvre after Titian.
TitianDate: 1682Reference: 11327i
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Burke & Hare / Alanna Knight.
Alanna KnightDate: 2007
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Ezzelin sitting next to the body of his wife Meduna after killing her for alleged adultery. Mezzotint by J.R. Smith after H. Fuseli, 1781.
Fuseli, Johann Heinrich, 1741-1825.Date: 30 march 1781Reference: 46766i
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Criminal soldiers are caught in their hiding places in woods and brought to justice. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
Jacques CallotDate: [1730]Reference: 44130i
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The Nightingale Shore murder : life and death of a Queen's nurse / Rosemary Cook.
Cook, RosemaryDate: 2011
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A particular account of the cruel and barbarous MURDER of Ann Banting and her infant child, by Captain Disney, late of Newcastle upon Tyne : from the British Gazette of the 26th November, 1820.
Date: [1820?]
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Warnings from the dead. or, Solemn admonitions unto all people; but especially unto young persons to beware of such evils as would bring them to the dead / Cotton Mather ; In two discourses, occasioned by a sentence of death, executed on some unhappy malefactors. Together with the last confession, made by a young woman, who dyed on June 8. 1693. One of these malefactors.
Cotton MatherDate: 1693
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Sapphic slashers : sex, violence, and American modernity / Lisa Duggan.
Lisa DugganDate: [2000]
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The wrath of God is aroused against murderers, sodomites, oppressors and swindlers. Engraving attributed to T. Galle, 1601.
Date: [1601]Reference: 31958i
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Judith with a sword holding the head of Holofernes. Coloured lithograph by F. Hanfstaengel after A. Varotari, il Padovanino.
Alessandro VarotariReference: 21511i
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Soldiers pillaging a village. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
Jacques CallotDate: [1730]Reference: 44111i
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Suicide of the great enamelist : we have just received the important news at our office, from reliable quarters, that the great Beautifier has committed suicide by strangulation, while in her cell in prison.
Date: [ebtween 1830 and 1850?]
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Murder : a Home Office Research Unit report / by Evelyn Gibson and S. Klein.
Gibson, EvelynDate: 1961
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Sebald de Weert is killed in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, by officers of the King of Kandy, 1603. Engraving.
Reference: 42806i

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An account of a shocking, barbarous, bloody, and inhuman MURDER committed on the body of Mary Griffiths, on Monday evening, the 3rd inst 1820, near Carlisle, in Cumberland.

Medico-legal treatise on homicide by external violence.

Étude médico-légale du meutre rituel / Jules Marcus.

An account of the crime, trial, confession, and execution of Charles Smith : who was hanged on Newcastle Town Moor, on Wednesday the 3d. of December, 1817, for the barbarous and cruel MURDER of Charles Stewart, at Ousebourn Pottery.

A drunken man is arrested for killing his wife. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

The invention of murder : how the Victorians revelled in death and detection and created modern crime / Judith Flanders.

A destitute girl throws herself from a bridge, her life ruined by alcoholism. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848.

Miscellaneous notes : (tenth series) / F. Parkes Weber.

Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr. Engraving by W.T. Fry.

A full account of a barbarous, cruel, and inhuman MURDER, committed by Mary King, on the bodies of her four children, by pouring boiling lead in their ears : also an account and trial and execution.

Cain slaying Abel. Etching by V. Lefebvre after Titian.

Burke & Hare / Alanna Knight.

Ezzelin sitting next to the body of his wife Meduna after killing her for alleged adultery. Mezzotint by J.R. Smith after H. Fuseli, 1781.

Criminal soldiers are caught in their hiding places in woods and brought to justice. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.

The Nightingale Shore murder : life and death of a Queen's nurse / Rosemary Cook.

A particular account of the cruel and barbarous MURDER of Ann Banting and her infant child, by Captain Disney, late of Newcastle upon Tyne : from the British Gazette of the 26th November, 1820.

Sapphic slashers : sex, violence, and American modernity / Lisa Duggan.

The wrath of God is aroused against murderers, sodomites, oppressors and swindlers. Engraving attributed to T. Galle, 1601.

Judith with a sword holding the head of Holofernes. Coloured lithograph by F. Hanfstaengel after A. Varotari, il Padovanino.

Soldiers pillaging a village. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.

Suicide of the great enamelist : we have just received the important news at our office, from reliable quarters, that the great Beautifier has committed suicide by strangulation, while in her cell in prison.

Murder : a Home Office Research Unit report / by Evelyn Gibson and S. Klein.

Sebald de Weert is killed in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, by officers of the King of Kandy, 1603. Engraving.