Murder
Publisher: Pitts Printer, Toy and Marblwarehous [sic] 6, Great St. And. Dials.
Published: 1820
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Filicide; Murder
Description: A father and mother plan on murdering and robbing a lodger in order to pay for food and medical expenses for their ailing daughter.
Notes: Date of imprint from William B. Todd. A Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London and vicinity 1800-1840. Pitts was active at this address between 1820 and 1844.

Account of a man who murdered his only daughter while she slept, mistakenly believing that she was the family's lodger, for the purpose of stealing her earnings from previous work as a servant. With three columns of verse.

Verses begin : Near Exminster, in Devonshire.

Wood engraving (7.8 x 10.2 cm.) : Murder scene.

Wood engraving (7.8 x 10.2 cm.) : Burial scene.

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Dying speeches II, 137.