The execution at Winchester
Subtitle: Of John Smith for horse-stealing. James Dawes, and Wm. Dawes, two brothers, for burglary. Likewise Patrick Cusack, and Elenor Ryan, for the murder of John Ryan, her husband, by strangulation, and afterwards burning the body
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1825
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Robbery; Burglary; Horse stealing; Mariticide; Murder; Repentance; Poetry; Prisoners
Other titles: Lines on visiting a malefactor under condemnation.
Notes: Date of imprint from date of executions: March 19, 1825 -- Capital punishment UK site via WWW, viewed June 5, 2007.

Account of crimes and sentences, with two columns of verse, titled: Lines on visiting a malefactor under condemnation.

Patrick Cusack, Elenor Ryan, and Edmund Hall were tried and convicted at the Limerick Assizes; Cusak and Ryan were executed.

Verse begins : How sunk is man by conscious guilt opress'd.

Wood engraving (14 x 19.5 cm.) : hanging scene before prison walls with spectators.

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Dying Speeches I, 22.