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Auction: 21066 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 198

Great Britain
Execution Broadsheets
The Case of the Poor Italian Boy
1831 "The Trial of John Bishop, James May, and TH: Williams, For the Horrible Crime of Murdering Carlo Ferrari, A Poor Italian Boy, For the Purpose of Selling his Body for Dissection. With The Frightful Confessions of Bishop and Williams Acknowledging the Murder of Five Persons, for Similar Purposes", with illustrations of Carlo Ferrari and Bishop's residence. Printed by Smeeton, 74, Tooley Street.
In Bishop and Williams' confessions they maintain still that they did not kill Ferrari. Generally fine. (250x375mm)

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