Works Cited

Ficker & Associates: Household Words. Volume I, pg. 176 Law at a Low Price.  5/18/1850

Sheep Murderer: This article is an idea from the last eperiodical which featured the advertisement for the wanted “sheep murderer”. Both ideas were from Household Words, 1/2/1850, pg. 38; in a section titled Narrative of Law and Crime. The section featured certain crimes that were committed and the punishment received from the courts. 

Letter from a Newgate Prisoner: Ansay, Serra. "The Cornhill, Great Expectations, and The Convict System in Nineteenth-Century England." The Cornhill, Great Expectations, and The Convict System in Nineteenth-Century England. The Victorian Web, 1996. Web. 16 Jan. 2013.

Hangman update: This article is an update from the previous installment in which people were posting their wants to become the new hangman and were applying to the High Sherriff of Suffolk County.

Crimes committed http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/newgate.html 

A Visit to Newgate Prison:  http://www.victorianlondon.org/prisons/newgate.htm “Victorian London-- Prisons and Penal Systems—Prisons—Newgate” by Charles Dickens, originally in “Sketches by Boz, 1836”

Picture from : http://www.peterberthoud.co.uk/2012/05/inside-newgate-prison/

Last Words:
            -Idea created from a picture titled “Morning Execution” from the Newgate Journal. To the page next to the picture there is a letter of a prisoner in which he describes his last day on Earth. However, unable to read the passage, I recreated what I thought the prisoner might have said.

Bow Street Court Case
Household Words. Volume 1. The Great Penal Experiments. William Henry Wills. P 252. 8/6/1850.

Do Not Be Afraid of the Chancery: (Above Pictured are the Past Martyrs of the Court of Chancery (1735))

Alfred Whaley Cole, William Henry Wills. Household Words. Volume II pg. 493 (9/28/1850)  

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