From: dav_and_frances_vandenbroucke@compuserve.com   
      
   Looking for a gory crime to write a song about?   
      
   Dying Speeches & Bloody Murder: Crime Broadsides Collected by the   
   Harvard Law School Library   
      
   "Just 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. ... The examples   
   digitized here span the years 1707 to 1891 and include accounts of   
   executions for such crimes as arson, assault, counterfeiting, horse   
   stealing, murder, rape, robbery, and treason." From the Harvard Law   
   School Library.   
      
   URL: http://broadsides.law.harvard.edu/   
      
      
      
   Dav Vandenbroucke   
   davanden at cox dot net   
      
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