Title: Fairburn's edition of the trial of John Bishop, Thomas Williams, and James May for the wilful murder of the Italian boy
Description: See Ruth Richardson's Dickens & the Workhouse, in which she ponders the possibility that the young Charles Dickens might have been the shorthand writer of this case.
Subjects: Trials (Murder), Trials, litigation "BURKING" "murder for dissection", Trials, litigation
Places: Great Britain, London
People: James May (d. 1831), John Bishop (d. 1831), Thomas Williams (d. 1831)
Time periods: 1831