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Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign 2015
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LIFE TRIAL SENTENCE AND LAST FAUWELL
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AlHB MERRITT \
Ifor the MURDER of James Merritt hr Husband, by Poison, on the 2kth J;n. 1853.
^,e dreadful dose si e gave lier husband,
'	Sa So n after which Jame-Merritt died,
And she wh"n taxed with the foul murder Strongly the deed denied.

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E. Hodges, Printer, (from Pitt’s)', Wholesale Toy Warehouse, 31, Dudley Street, Seven Dials,
Air—“The Waggon train."
1 "Re^Pld a vs retched raarried woman,
The mother of a family,
'For the murder of her husband, f. Doomed to die upon a tree ;
. Oh! whatever could possess y®ta,
On that sad and fatal day,-.
For te prepare the dreadful prison And take her husband1« lifeaw&y
CHORUS.
See a wretched wife and mother, Borne down bv grief and igpsery* Because she did In r hu»b.inji-iniuiiter, Doomed to die upon a..tr*e.
Anne Merritt »the wretched culprit.
In Peaitee-place-she did in Hackney dwell Her husband was an honest turncock. Respected and esteemed full well.
A husband kindr-a tender father—
He was unto hi&family,
Besides he was an upright memlai*
Of a Burial Safety,
On the twenty-fourth of January,’
The wretched woman »he did g©>
To a shop to buy the fetal poison
Which hasjjjpved her overthrow.
At 'esn tb suspicion fell upon her,
And to justice she was brought,
Tint no »ne would the crime discover the s,<d & wretched murderess drought, hhe sltt the partner of her bosom,
It was, we r< ?d for cruel gain.
And made her darling' children orphans, Distressed and overcome with pain.
for a trifling paltry sum of money,
She did i er lawful husband s!av,
And for Bo other ^ause but lucre.
Did she lake his life away.
The judge on her proaou c d the sentence, Anne Merritt you must hanged be,
At the debtor's door of Newgate,
On the di-mal fatal tree.'’
Dea h to meet, the 'wretched 'vomuti, Hurriedly is moving on,
Anne Merritt’s days, al**s, are ended,
At the age of thirty-one,
Can you think, you tender mothers,
V\ hat must Anne Merritt’s feelings he? To leave behind by her misconduct,
A weoging orphan family
When she was at the holy altar,
She did a solemn vow then give,
Her husband dear to love and cherish, Wbilh God permitted her to live;
But she the solemn vow has broken. Wicked, base, deceilfvd wife, Barbarous and cruet mother,
Doomed to die in prime ef life,
The solemn knell for her is felting, Numbers flock her end to see, a cruel wife, a wretched! mother, to approach the fatal tree, from whence her frame whsn life is ended Will in disgrace be borne away,
And plac’d within the walls of Newgate, To lie unto the judgment day.
Males and frinales, take a warning,
By Aline Merritt’s dreadful fate.
Ponder well, night, »»on, and morning,, Before, atas, it is too late;
Let not ever- Satan tempt you.
To desert from Virue’s way ;
AIM think upen that wretched worn«*, vYho did for gain her husband stay.zru '£? è o ,¿í 'f f
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