Execution Broadside.- Trial and Execution of Richard Gillam (The), for the Wilful Murder of Maria Bagnall, at Bath, c.505 x 355mm, 3 woodcuts depicting the hanging, murder and full-length portrait of the murderer, the first with decorative border, folded in half and tipped to sheet of card, lightly soiled at edges and fold, short tear and fraying to fold at edge (but no loss), another small tear to lower margin, Bristol, J.Catnach, Printer...sold by W.Marshall, [1828]; and another similar but defective broadside of the execution of James Lines for the murder of George Teague at Writhlington Coal Pit near Radstock in December 1837, with text including small woodcut of hanging but larger woodcut of murder torn away at head (2) ⁂ No other copies traced of either. The first is for the murder of Maria Bagnall or Brignall, companion to an elderly lady in Bath, found murdered in the kitchen of Marlborough Buildings on 26th January 1828. Gillam was the butler and claimed that robbers had entered the house and murdered her. He was 24 and hanged at Ilchester Gaol on 4th June 1828; his wife, the cook, gave birth to their daughter shortly before his execution.
Execution Broadside.- Trial and Execution of Richard Gillam (The), for the Wilful Murder of Maria Bagnall, at Bath, c.505 x 355mm, 3 woodcuts depicting the hanging, murder and full-length portrait of the murderer, the first with decorative border, folded in half and tipped to sheet of card, lightly soiled at edges and fold, short tear and fraying to fold at edge (but no loss), another small tear to lower margin, Bristol, J.Catnach, Printer...sold by W.Marshall, [1828]; and another similar but defective broadside of the execution of James Lines for the murder of George Teague at Writhlington Coal Pit near Radstock in December 1837, with text including small woodcut of hanging but larger woodcut of murder torn away at head (2) ⁂ No other copies traced of either. The first is for the murder of Maria Bagnall or Brignall, companion to an elderly lady in Bath, found murdered in the kitchen of Marlborough Buildings on 26th January 1828. Gillam was the butler and claimed that robbers had entered the house and murdered her. He was 24 and hanged at Ilchester Gaol on 4th June 1828; his wife, the cook, gave birth to their daughter shortly before his execution.
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