MARC Record from harvard_bibliographic_metadata

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245 10 $aDying speeches & bloody murders$h[electronic resource] :$bCrime broadsides collected by the Harvard Law School Library.
246 30 $aDying speeches and bloody murders
260 $a[Cambridge, Mass.] :$bThe President and Fellows of Harvard College,$c2007.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
520 $aJust as programs are sold at sporting events today, broadsides, styled at the time as "Last Dying Speeches" or "Bloody Murders," were sold to the audiences that gathered to witness public executions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. These ephemeral publications were intended for the middle or lower classes, and most sold for a penny or less. Published in British towns and cities by printers who specialized in this type of street literature, a typical example features an illustration (usually of the criminal, the crime scene, or the execution); an account of the crime and (sometimes) the trial; and the purported confession of the criminal, often cautioning the reader in doggerel verse to avoid the fate awaiting the perpetrator.
500 $aTitle from home page (viewed December 12, 2007)
650 0 $aTrials (Abortion)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Adultery)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Arson)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Assault and battery)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Attempted murder)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Bigamy)$xEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Burglary)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Child sexual abuse)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Conspiracy)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Crimes of passion)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Embezzlement)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Extortion)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Forgery)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Homicide)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Incest)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Infanticide)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Larceny)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Mail robbery)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Murder)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Mutiny)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Naval offenses)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Perjury)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Poisoning)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Prostitution)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Rape)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Riots)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Robbery)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Seduction)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Sodomy)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Torture)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Treason)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Horse stealing)$zEngland.
650 0 $aTrials (Uxoricide)$zEngland.
655 7 $aWeb sites$2lcsh$5law
655 7 $aComputer network resource$2local$5law
710 2 $aHarvard Law School.$bLibrary.$bSpecial Collections Department.
710 2 $aHarvard Law School.
710 2 $aHarvard University.
988 $a20071212
906 $0MH