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The Last dying speech and confession of Elizabeth Woolterton, who was executed at Ipswich, on Tuesday, July 25, 1815, for the wilful murder of Robert Sparkes, a child 6 years old, who partook of a cake in which the prisoner had mixed arsenic : with intent to poison her uncle Tifford Clarke, aged 82.

Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920 Available online

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Book
Series:
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Woolterton, Elizabeth, -1815.
Woolterton, Elizabeth.
Sparkes, Robert, active 19th century.
Sparkes, Robert.
Executions and executioners--Great Britain.
Executions and executioners.
Murder--Great Britain.
Murder.
Arsenic.
Great Britain.
Arsenic--Great Britain.
Last words.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 unnumbered page).
Manufacture:
Ipswich : A. Dorkin, printer, [1815]
Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1815]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Reproduction of the original from the British Library.
OCLC:
937018421
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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