Execution of Elizabeth Ross for burking Caroline Walsh
Publisher: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Mon-mouthcourt, 7 Dials.
Published: 1832
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Murder; Trials (Murder); Executions and executioners; Poetry; Repentance
Other titles: Lament of Elizabeth Ross.
Notes: Date of imprint from date of event; Ross was tried at the Old Bailey in January 1832.

Primarily an account of the trial of Ross and her husband Edward Cook for the murder of Caroline Walsh, for the purpose of selling the body for dissection. Ross was convicted; Cook was acquitted. With one column of verse titled "Lament of Elizabeth Ross."

Verses begin : Alas? my dreadful doom is seal'd, and by the Law's decree.

Wood engraving (5.7 x 15.5 cm.) : Hanging scene before prison gates, with spectators.

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Dying Speeches II, 103. Manuscript annotation on Harvard copy gives execution date: Jan. 9, 1832.