M'Gorran's lament.
[Glasgow] : Printed and sold by James Lindsay, stationer, &c., 9 King Street, (off Trongate,) Glasgow,
[1853?]
Dated from internal evidence - James M'Gorran, or Magorran was, on Wednesday 18th May, 1853, tried and convicted for the murder of James M'Guire at Irvine the previous October. M'Gorran was sentenced to be executed at Ayr on the 8th June 1853, M'Gorran received a reprieve as the sentence was never carried out. Information from the Times Digital Archive from an article dated Friday 20 May, 1853.
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First line reads: Good people give attention / To those truths I herewith mention, / And pour in full extension / Your sympathy to me.
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