Trial and sentence. : A full and particular account of the trial and sentence of Andrew Ewart, who is to be executed at Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 19th March next, for murder, and his body to be given for public dissection..
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1828]
Ewart was not executed, he was reprieved on the 29th February, 1828.
The trial began on 11 February 1828.
In this issue the third paragraph from the end reads "... consequently in / shooting a man, on the supposition that he was a / resurrectionist, was murder ..."; in another issue it reads "... consequently to / shoot a man, on the supposition he was a resurrec/tionist, was murder ...".
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides,
Ewart, Andrew, active 1828.
Trials (Murder)
Murder
Executions and executioners
Scotland Edinburgh.