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Auction: 21066 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 199

Great Britain
Execution Broadsheets
The Case of the Poor Italian Boy
1831 (5 Sept.) "Trial and Execution of Bishop, May, & Williams, For the Murder of Charles Fariere, an Italian Boy", printed by J.V. Quick, 42, Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell; and Sold by J. PITTS, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials.
Illustrating, at the head of the page, Bishop, May and Williams giving an account of the trial and sentence listing evidence given by witnesses and reproducing "A copy of a Letter from Williams to his Wife". Some peripheral tears otherwise fine. (250x380mm)

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