Author: TRIALS.
Title: Some Particulars of the Life, Trial, Behaviour, and Execution of Samuel Wood, who was Executed on Nottingham Gallows, on Thursday, March 16, 1826, for the Wilful Murder of his Wife. Copied from the Nottingham Review, with Considerable Additions.
Description: Nottingham: Printed and Sold by Sutton and Son, [c.1826.] 12mo (150 x 85 mm) 24pp., new boards. Samuel Wood, resided in a small house at the back of Parliament-row, Nottingham. He had been married to his wife about nine years, and had three children. A man named Dunn lodged with them, and Wood 'entertained suspicions of improper familiarity between Dunn and his wife. This jealousy preyed upon his mind and he determined to destroy one or both of the parties.' On the evening of the 16th Nov. 1825, Wood had been drinking to excess, and on his return home he quarrelled with his wife. In a fit of rage he picked up a coal-pick and struck her several blows on the head, which fractured the skull and caused her death. He was executed on Thursday, the 16th March, 1826. British Library and University of Georgia Law Library.

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