ILLINOIS
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Production Note
Project Unica
Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign 2015
LAMENTATION OF
HENRY WAINWRIGHT,
For the Murder and Mutilation of Harriet Lane.
The Wainwriglit’s trial it now is over, And in his gloomy cell he lies,
His doom is fixed, this cruel murderer, And soon now Henry Wainwright dies. The jury they have found him guilty,
No power on earth now can him save, His race is run, and vary shortly
He now must fill a murderer’s grave.
CHORUS—
He, Hariiet Lane, no mercy showed her, His victim’s blood for vengeance cries And Henry Wainwright’s trial’s over,
And he is now condemned to die.
When Stokes came forward at this trial, And told the way he followed him Who ever thought that one so vde,
Could ere escape so great a sin.
No doubt he thought that they wouic never His victim recognise again ;
As he her body did dis-sever,
The poorcreature he had brought toshame
j The words her father to him had spoken,
'	Wli cn visiting him one dav,
! Where is my daughter? my heart is broken ’Twill be wcse for you than me, I say' ; Miss Wilmore too, her won's are ringing, Poor Haniet 1 mean to find,
I To misery yourself are bringing,
God will protect this female kind.
j Prepare yourself to meet your Maker,
You never can escape your fate ;
When Harriet you did forsake her,
Then God above he did her take.
Your victim watches you from heaven, Until you on the scaffold die;
Then pray below to be forgiven,
Ere in a murderer’s grave you lie.
upon that evening,
The crime it shortly would be known; And Henry Wainwright s brought to justice Although such hardihood he*s shown. With chloride of time his deed concealing, The spade and chopper tried to sell, ’Twas when the crime they wrre revealing This evidence they there did tell.	°’
This wonderful trial now is over,
I’m sure ’twill never be forgot';
And Henry Wainwright now is sentenced,
A murderer’s fate it is his lot.
Let’s hope that he will ask for mercy,
That to his victim he would not give And may we never hear another, *	’
Sad a crime while here we live
Now Thomas Wainwright he’s convicted, And transportation he’ll undergo,
For in this deed he has assisted, ’
It has brought him now to grief and woe He in a felon’s chains will linger,
And now in shame he nmstdeplore, Disgrace, his frame it now will wither,
And face his friends he can no more.
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