Author: EXECUTIONS
Title: Trial, Sentence and Execution of Thomas Sale, Who was Executed this morning at the Old Bailey, for the Murder of Mr. Bellchamber, at Westminster, With Sale's Attempt to Murder M'Coy. [with] Newgate Execution.
Description: 1848. 2 woodcuts, the first 215 x 350 mm. the second, 130 x 220 mm. These woodcuts are probably cut from contemporary execution broadsides. According to contemporary accounts, the mother, common law wife, brother and others made up a party "to see the last of old Tom" and when it was over retired to a public house to make a day of it.

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