A full, complete, and correct account of the horrid murder of the poor Italian boy Carlo Ferriar, as detailed in the examinations at Bow-Street police office, the coroner's inquest, and at the trial of Bishop, May, and Williams, on Friday, Dec. 2, 1831 : Including, every circumstance connected with this horrible burking transaction, the conviction of the murderers, their behaviour during the trial and sentence; the conduct of the prisoners, and confession and execution of Bishop and Williams.
- Bishop, John, -1831
- Date:
- [1831?]
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Credit: A full, complete, and correct account of the horrid murder of the poor Italian boy Carlo Ferriar, as detailed in the examinations at Bow-Street police office, the coroner's inquest, and at the trial of Bishop, May, and Williams, on Friday, Dec. 2, 1831 : Including, every circumstance connected with this horrible burking transaction, the conviction of the murderers, their behaviour during the trial and sentence; the conduct of the prisoners, and confession and execution of Bishop and Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
![trunk, now produced. On the 20th of Nov, I went to the same cottage, and making a further search, I found a hairy cap in the front parlour, amongst some dirty linen. I now produce it. I also found a tin can there. Mr. Thomas also produced the sack and hamper in which the body had been brought to the station-house in Covent- garden. [We would here state, that other witnesses were occa- sionally examined, besides those whose examinations are here detailed. As, however, their evidence differed but little from what had been given before, we have not con- sidered it necessary to repeat it.] George Gissing, a boy, examined.—I am 12 years old. I go to school and to church. My father keeps the Bird- cage pubhc-house, Crabtree-road, near Nova-Scotia-gar- dens. On the evening of the fourth of November, about half past 6 o'clock, I saw a yellow hackney-chariot draw up opposite my father's house. I did not see who got out of the chariot. I afterwards saw the prisoner Wil- liams standing on the fore-wheel of the chariot, talking to, the driver. The chariot waited ten or fifteen minutes. The door was open all the time. Williams went down Nova-Scotia-gardens, and in ten or fifteen minutes he returned and got into the chariot. Then I saw a strange man carrying a sack in his arms, and Bishop holding up one end of it. They put it in the chariot. Williams put out his hand to help it in. The sack appeared to be heavy, as if something heavy was in it. Bishop and the other man got into the chariot with Williams, and they drove up Crabtree-road and towards Shoreditch Church, on the road to the city. Mr. Thomas Mills examined.—I live at No. 39, Bridge- house-place, Newington-causeway, and am a dentist. On the 4th of November, between 9 and 10 o'clock in the morning. May called and offered a set of teeth for sale; they were twelvehuman teeth, six for each jaw.—I observed that one of the front teeth was chipped. He offered the set for a guinea. It was then that I observed that one of them was chipped, as that lessened their value. 1 gave him 12s. for them. Those are the teeth now produced, which 1 delivered to Mr. Thomas. Augustine Bruin (examined through an interpreter) deposed, that he was acquainted with the Italian Boy, Carlo Ferrari. Witness brought him to this country about](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21042342_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
