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Report of Murder Court Case, March 1733

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Transcription of the Report

We have endeavoured to gratify our Readers with as near a Resemblance of the Face of this Woman, who has made so much Noise, as this manner of printing will allow. She went to Execution neatly dressed in a Crepe mourning Gown, holding up her Head in the Cart with an Air, and looking as if she was painted, which some did not scruple to affirm.

Her Corpse was carried to an Undertakers upon Snow-Hill where Multitudes of People resorted and gave Money to see it; among the rest a Gentleman in deep new Mourning, who kissed her; and gave the People Half a Crown. She was about 25 Years of Age.

Sarah Malcolm was executed on a Gibbet opposite Mitre Court in Fleet Street. She was attended by the Revd Mr Piddington, Curate of St Bartholomew the Great; seem'd penitent, and intimated she had delivered to him a genuine Account sealed up the Night before, which contained her whole Confession. She desired to see her Master Kerrol, but she did not, protested that all Accusations concerning him were false. She was buried in St. Sephulchers Church Yard. During her Imprisonment she received a Letter from her Father at Dublin, who was in to bad Circumstances to send her such a Sum as 17l which she had pretended she did.

Gentleman's Magazine - March 1733 pp153-154

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