Trial confession and execution of the valet Courvoisier, for the murder of Lord W. Russell
Subtitle: With a copy of a letter written to his father and mother
Publisher: H. Paul, printer, 22, Brick Lane, Spitalfields. Shops & hawkers supplied.
Published: 1840
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Murder; Robbery; Investigation; Poetry
Notes: Printed in five columns, including two columns of verse, and two wood engravings.

Verses begin : O stranger why is here erected, that scaffold now at early dawn?

Wood engraving (12 x 22.4 cm.) : Gallows scene before prison walls, prior to hanging, with spectators.

Wood engraving (15 x 8 cm.) : Full length silhouette of "F.B. Courvoisier, the valet."

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