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Life trial sentence and last farwell [sic] tu [sic] the worrld [sic] gf [sic] Anne Merritt for the murder of James Merritt her husband, by poison, on the 2kth [sic] Jan. 1853

The awful sentance [sic] and lamentations of Keene : who now lies in Horsmonger-lane Goal [sic]; under sentance [sic] of execution, without the least hopes of mercy, for the murder of a child, at Albury, near Guilford

Lamentation of Samuel Wright : who was executed on Tuesday, January, 12th, 1864, at Horsemonger Lane, gaol, for the murder of Eliza Green, on Sunday, December 12th

Copy of verses on the execution of Daniel Good

Lamentation of Franz Muller

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